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Blog / MIT Life
Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)
semisweet chocolate and tossed it into her chocolate cookie recipe. I had a ... Chris '09 to see Alaina E'09 and Allison E'07. Despite getting lost AGAIN ... lost under the canopy of Allison's bed and checking out food options at -
Blog / Academics & Research
Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).
: Design and Manufacturing 1 12:30 - 2 pm: Tissue Engineering for Analysis, Prevention, and Treatment of Human Disease So to tell you the name of the ... of a boy and his trials with energy and entropy. Directed by John -
Blog / Admissions
How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.
break. As my wife so ably put it, "Back away slowly from your job, and no ... insight, wisdom, humor, patience and dedication. Much to my surprise this ... believe that I've only been at MIT since July of 2005 and this blog has only -
Blog / MIT Life
“Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!
is that? Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, of course! One ... '08, who lives in my suite, and had a sudden craving for garlic bread ... butter spread stuff sitting around my suite kitchen, and when Akash saw -
Blog / Admissions
The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.
I often hear students say that colleges control their destinies and that the admissions process is all about whom the colleges admit and not ... and you control two of them. You really can have a great deal of -
Blog / MIT Life
Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.
spectacularly. Like last night, we lost 1-0 in double overtime on the road and ... '08 and I decided to literally run circles around the dorm. The title of ... his suite: Ruth says update your blog!" And when Ruth tells you to do -
Blog / MIT Life
Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…
and girls /they live in a single hall but different rooms.are they ... is Baker, where some rooms are designated as triples and quads. There are mixed feelings about the quads- some people love them and some -
Blog / Events
Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.
during Class of 2005 Orientation in August 2001, and they've been ... , and are both going to Stanford for grad school. Say it with me now: "Aww.") Their wedding took place in Bellevue last Saturday, and was a bittersweet -
Blog / Challenges
choosing the abridged version
in which i document some of my thoughts regarding my job search and ... places, and i was too tired to look for more options: a large quant ... think it’s very neutral) and i also don’t think QR work is that -
Blog / Advice
17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time
some essay advice from the bloggers of yore and a few words from me ... graduate students in STEM and STEM-adjacent fields. This was a lot of writing ... : reflective, personal, and trying to get people to accept me for something -
Blog / Uncategorized
g e m i n i j u i c e a saga of screenshots
by on the way to class and almost got in the line to figure out wth was ... . also i’ve learned that they’re EXPENSIVE to rent out and also EXPENSIVE to buy and also ungodly heavy and impossible to transport (speaking -
Blog / Miscellaneous
my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars
I famously have perfect taste, and with little to do over the summer, I'm left to just sit around and ponder endlessly, refining my taste and opinions indefinitely. I offer you the following takes with limited -
Blog / Personal Projects
[liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends
Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for ... broke my leg. (don’t worry, I’ll walk again in a few months and be fully -
Blog / Classes
happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)
it was going to go versus how it actually went when it’s all said and done. Maybe you should also write something like this and reflect when ... exercising without the pressure of pushing myself to be better and better -
Blog / Admissions
Open Thread: Deferred Early
application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Understandably, you ... experiences here, here, here, here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of ... ’s okay, too. For now, just float on, and we’ll see you back here in March -
Blog / Personal Travel
chasing the aurora a celestial hunt
because the trip seemed logistically inconvenient, I was tired, and I had ... UROP professor Tonio Buonassisi']UROP professor and grad student ... tonight, and if my tracker is accurate, we should have a chance of seeing -
Blog / Admissions
Open Thread: Deferred Early
application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Many MIT students were ... , here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of you may feel happy to ... hold on, and we'll see you back here in March. We have posted more -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
recently read words absorbed by my brain
.A. Times Festival of Books recently and heard Monica Youn read this poem ... Normal People, and this short story is a predecessor to the novel, featuring Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo
For context, Tetazoo is the name of the cat friendly hall that I live on, and we currently have four [annotation note="and an unspecified ... and Random that allow cats. It's a story that gets told at every MIT
