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Blog / Classes
What I’m taking this semester! senior fall
improved my state of mind. And honestly, there isn't a single class that I ... universe out there where I kept following my 6th grade interests and majored ... Classes start tomorrow! today! I started writing this at 11:55PM and -
Blog / Research & Work Abroad
Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.
! (And just in time, right?) After my previous state of confusion, this is ... back and paint my new room, have fun doing REX stuff, see all my old ... weather for New England weather, and leaving behind a great experience -
Blog / Academics & Research
This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.
's hardships and stupidities were swept away from my little corner of the universe. It was a blurry moment of vague, smudgy happiness that I couldn ... and ship yourself to the college of your dreams. Writing this would make -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.
concert on campus. This year's Spring Concert features Jason Derulo and ... Roast is a celebration of mud, meat, and music. Mud, because of the mud wrestling pit and matches. Meat -- well, that's obvious from the name of the -
Blog / How to Human
My winter break so far take a break
break. I made plans to paint, work out, write, study, and a whole other ... a couple of good friends from high school -- Ethan, Harsheta, and Xerxes. We chatted and caught up, telling each other about our shenanigans -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals
(and advocate for universal acceptance of) the “pset” standard, unless I ... The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you -
Blog / Academics & Research
‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record
several physical and non-physical aspects of the Institute. We were ... Institute units and satisified 4 GIR requirements. Spring semester is on ... Nine days ago, I was at the Boston Logan Airport, and it felt strange -
Blog / Academics & Research
Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1
1, and also the sequel to "Sketches from the Fall Semester." ___________________________________________ Prefrosh!!! We have Early Action adMITs now, and the circle of (admissions ... s are full of excitement and hope. As a senior blogger, I’ve gotten -
Blog / Challenges
zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going
understand what it means to be alive and human at this Institute, would require ... impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel ... classes, enjoying my time in them, so on and so forth. It seemed, however -
Blog / Academics & Research
Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.
World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and ... -efficient chemical engineering machine capable of diluting solutions and running ... new work arises, and you're actually learning something in the process -
Blog / Announcements
MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼
April 14th, 2020 Admitted students Below, on April 3rd and March 23rd ... , and if your school, as a condition of your enrollment in an AP course ... otherwise intended to take due to COVID or any other reason, and if you decide -
Blog / Life after MIT
A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis
-dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger”. The Little Hunger is the desire for the material, basic needs and beyond, where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in -
Blog / Challenges
synthesis on changing my mind
first 21w.755 (reading and writing short stories) lecture last semester ... the relationship between masters and slaves; someone else said it was about the id, ego, and superego; another person said it modeled election -
Blog / How to Human
friendful life recently
in kendall square or come to the whitehead institute (where i work) and ... you are loved, and that no matter what the universe tries to throw at ... latest season of love on the spectrum. another labmate watched it and told -
Blog / MISTI
a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends
research at the meteorology institute of the Freie Universität Berlin and ... institute, and I go directly there. [carousel image1="76933" image2 ... decompress and have lunch. I typically alternate days working at the institute -
FAQ / Life and culture
Is there really a swim test?
Yup, there's a swim test! There's an awesome variety of physical education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement and the eight point General Institute Requirement. The swimming -
Blog / Classes
A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell
temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment ... going through a stack of paper and talking to you about it. So fun, right ... stack are some papers from DEAPS. Discover Earth and Planetary Sciences -
Blog / MIT Life
A Night Off Campus and some dancing
6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms) and I have an interesting relationship this semester, one that's partly tortured, and partly beautifully ... to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can -
Blog / Challenges
you can care about things revisiting stoicism
both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a ... personal expression and craft? people often say you can’t/shouldn’t try to ... their decisions. doing so can be exhausting and bring lots of emotional