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Blog / Academics & Research
5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.
Just finished reading Paul's entry about the Guy Fawkes hacks at MIT and feel obligated to write about 5th of November/Guy Fawkes/Bonfire Night over here at the other Cambridge. I actually saw V for Vendetta -
Blog / About Decisions
This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...
really complicated I thought it might be worthwhile to offer some of my ... be offered a place at another great school. Waitlisted: In some ways ... of choices, first accepting an offer of admission elsewhere — which all -
Blog / Academics & Research
Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.
. At the same time, this makes it difficult: because a lot of things are ... whole selection of other materials in each of the languages offerred, can ... ....it's MIT, and languages don't involve math and all. First of all, I can -
Blog / Miscellaneous
some thoughts i have a few
taking 6.145 at the time and I wasn't sure I could handle the commitment of ... 'm tired of skirting around this. One of my biggest regrets at MIT is not ... one of my floormates at the time, who often said she felt locked in by -
Blog / UROP & Other Research
UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes
has been one of my most treasured experiences at MIT thus far, and I am ... translate to a variety of actual careers. I'd tried my hand at menial labor on ... offers in hand. Both were good. One would start with analysis of water -
Blog / Events
Monkey Dance
Mira Nair came to speak last year and kind of offered my friend a role in ... Julie Mallozzi to do a screening of her film at your school. It's a great ... Your Mystery Hunt puzzle of the day: Dead and Gone I finished up -
Blog / Life after MIT
Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.
do pick a lab at the beginning of the summer, my choices will basically ... people (moms) who like to look at this sort of thing. The ceremony will be ... science-filled reception at the Museum of Science. And then we'll go on our -
Blog / Academics & Research
Making Decisions “I don’t know”
of the ways that I’ve changed at MIT. So, for most of freshman year, I ... indecisiveness about my major at the end of freshman year. It was basically that I ... For this blog, we are going to try something new with format. Instead -
Blog / Academics & Research
highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD
playing games at pretty much every waking hour of the day. shoutout to Wii ... each of the first two psets so i didn't stress about it until i saw my ... grade...or the stress of finding a job amidst all this academic pressure -
Blog / Academics & Research
Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!
learning community that offers all of the core classes in smaller classes. It ... promise I haven't fallen off the earth! Coming off of pass/no record, though, is taking a little bit of adjustment. Speaking of adjustment.. This -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)
scenes of how we kind of attack these stories at Pixar. Some background on ... “oh, man.” They kind of singled me out at the studio and I’m like “oh ... takes place over two days at the beginning of November. People honor their -
Blog / MIT Life
Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters
, tenacious MIT students we all strive to be, the four of us decided that a new ... -run events[/annotation] at the beginning of Orientation, with the aim of ... of that, but geared towards dorm exploration! At both CPW and REX there -
Blog / Classes
.nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb
the section about the MIT.nano courses offered over IAP. At this point ... slight yet intense feeling of excitement at getting to try out all the ... passed, I was filled with frustration at my lack of motivation, will -
Blog / Admissions
Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.
an ethnic category through no choice of their own, had it easier at ... (s) (check all that apply)”. At least for myself, this is an easy question to ... mark it and move on to the next part of the application. For some though -
Blog / Admissions
FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.
will be no extra content to this post. Kidding, of course. I've been ... , the application process in general, and moving forward. All of your ... up! All jokes aside - you guys really are rad. We of all people -
Blog / Academics & Research
if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun
://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ------------ In the past couple of weeks at Zoom University, I have somehow continually found new and improved methods of hosing myself and ... interests me. The ironic thing is that at the beginning of the semester -
Blog / Academics & Research
WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)
still "distributed" at the end, with a certain percentage of the class ... , although I don't think my new knowledge of physics will ever entice me to ... science works). Economics wasn't offered at my school, but I decided to take -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...
only a year and a half at MIT, this concept of leadership has become much ... the chance to fly faster than the speed of sound, pull more Gs than any ... chance (which happens to be very good coming out of MIT) to have an awesome -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)
named. Then, at the end of a meeting of a club we’re all part of, we ... this at all, because the first time we went, all of us were sitting ... This is the first half of this post and it was written March 5th