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Blog / MISTI
Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.
DID YOU KNOW? GERMANY EDITION According to one of my labmates, authorities have set up a row of big-screen projectors in Berlin spanning an ... , to my untrained chemical engineering eyes, simply miracles of urban -
Blog / Academics & Research
Back to work
CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in ... guys got to see some of the nice weather we have hidden around here ... grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21 -
Blog / Academics & Research
I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.
Chef, originated the role of Jean Valjean in the Japanese production of ... see him in the "Valjeans of the World" medley at the end. It always struck me as kind of odd that they picked "Do You Hear the People Sing?" as -
Blog / Events
I’m still here. Promise.
-credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan!" Well anyway, I just got 11 hours of sleep last night, so I finally feel -
Blog / MIT Life
Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.
discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn ... bunch of people that I haven't seen since high school. It's a little weird; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in -
Blog / MIT Life
I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…
) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my dorm and my family helped me carry all my crates of junk up to my room. Speaking of my room, it got changed. Several times. I was originally supposed -
Blog / Admissions
Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.
For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip ... . I feel like such a nerd for taking a picture of the engine, but it was very cool -- all of the boat engines were converted from used Honda car -
Blog / Challenges
am i boring or just overstimulated?
with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of ... prepared me for, but a social one. Why does the "endless" amount of resources ... can take in college as an extension of being young, fairly detached from -
Blog / Challenges
how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away
By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something -
Blog / Academics & Research
How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis
results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making ... change. Thanks to MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering -
Blog / Events
science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!
loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a ... can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who ... school and lost touch with science bowl. Fast forward to the end of -
Blog / How to Human
finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?
i'm the kind of person who is very motivated by the prospect of ... any of the goals i set. i was HYPED about starting a bullet journal a ... of these goals and meticulously drew out a chart listing each habit and -
Blog / Admissions
CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh
'm writing this after finishing my third and final CP* event, which was some of ... these chances to meet the Class of '24—they're wonderful and hilarious and ... ! These couple of days have been a testament to how amazing the MIT -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets
This is the 3rd part of our 4 part Sentimental Objects series! Here ... memorabilia from the school year! He has yet to successfully hold ALL of ... -ish shape, and will now describe all of them as we reminisce. 1 -
Blog / Challenges
Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !
writing a blog post about quizbowl, somebody said, "What's quizbowl?" So of ... the ~personal experience~, but basically, the whole big concept of quizbowl is that you form teams of 4-5 people, and two teams sit in a room -
Blog / Challenges
The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…
In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be ... psychiatrists, when you hear terrible news, you go through 5 stages of grief ... how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of -
Blog / Events
Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston
I got my first taste of MIT even before orientation, when I showed up ... . Wait, I think I need an acronym for that acronym!). That’s a lot of letters for saying that a group of us pre-frosh got to go tour some really -
Blog / Events
What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up
If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd ... . xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Its creator, Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!
moved that he brought it to Star Trek. For those of you who don’t know ... , sitting on stage at Symphony Hall.” “Pops” is a portmanteau of “popular concerts.” The Boston Pops was founded in 1885 with the goal of performing
