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FAQ / Academics and research
Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?
subjects outside of the classroom itself. If you're confident that you ... test out of it. It's essentially like sitting the final before the class ... , and you will never exhaust our curriculum of hard, interesting classes. -
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Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters
moved before the memory making parts of my brain could actually store any reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my parents try to feed me coconuts, but this is of questionable veracity. My -
Blog / Academics & Research
Writing is useful for science. Surprise!
the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an ... ; * * * The days of partyboy/astronomer Tycho Brahe reclining in the quadrant he built into the wall of his palace are (regrettably) over. Tycho -
Blog / MIT Life
four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces
Some of the bloggers have written before about the way that music playlists can come to define, and bring back memories of, semesters that are ... screamy songs about the end of the world, perhaps unsurprisingly). I don -
Blog / Admissions
Sport CPW cpw at senior haus
CPW has come and gone, and it’s left all the students of MIT with ... . I organized CPW in my dorm last year. It is one of my favorite times of the school year, because I love having silly events and meeting -
Blog / Admissions
October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.
, college applications were at the forefront of my mind. I scrapped essays ... feared that colleges would reject me on basis of senior fall grades alone ... . Even under the graces of Pass No Record, I feel stressed out: it builds -
Blog / Challenges
Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18
come to campus and learn a variety of topics from MIT students. Hope you ... , then, one of my favorite weekends of the year is Splash weekend, when I ... the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of -
Blog / Academics & Research
In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything
the distant glint of the Charles. If you don't feel like craning your ... fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the blinds. There is a nice view of Building 1 and a pleasant reminder that -
Blog / Academics & Research
Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon
Those of you with memories slightly longer than the average goldfish ... Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded by inventor Dean Kamen and ... applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST, broadly speaking, is to -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!
up a heaping dose of pain in the form of academic expectations. If you ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered ... have abruptly shed their quiet greens to give way to an explosion of reds -
Blog / Admissions
Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!
totally made my day. Engineers rock. Of course, Wallace is failing MechE and then cheated, like an idiot! So of course he got caught, and I’m supremely disappointed in his lack of judgment. Still. Mechanical engineering -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…
reading Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. I say ... Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of ... it's considered the definitive biography of Franklin's life. Everyone -
Blog / Academics & Research
So many problem sets
of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... actually like, so I've posted a few of the problems from my own problem sets (don't give me the answers! I haven't solved all of these yet!). 9.22 has -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past
and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It's a window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago ... a Santa Claus. Supposedly one of the most reprinted newspaper -
Blog / Challenges
Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings
prince of the Fire Nation. This has been his life’s goal on the order of years. The act of showing mercy to the avatar challenges the very core of ... narrative effect of Zuko fighting an infection is such a clever and beautiful -
Blog / Residential Life
it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT
warned by all of my friends and by all of the informational videos about on-campus living in the fall that there would be a lot of restrictions. Things will ... because it is on the west half of the fourth floor of Next."]wing of Next -
Blog / MIT Life
On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.
now? Does anyone pretend to know? One of the few things that I know ... have been thinking about 9/11 a lot lately, because unlike most of you, I ... (although in my hometown bedroom community of NYC, people were buying pallets -
Blog / Challenges
Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!
bio/about section of my blogger profile, which I wrote in either August or September of 2016. I thought, in the style of my last blog post, I ... if any of these thoughts feel unorganized, my brain is unorganized -
Blog / Personal Projects
a quarantine haiku generator purell and poetics
hello! hope everyone is doing well. I made a quarantine haiku generator: get yours here.