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Race Against Myself Learning how to walk
about how I was faster. 80wpm!!!
Throughout middle school, I was a proud
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Blog / MIT History & Culture
On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb
to go to a school where even in the summertime undergrads, grad -
Blog / Academics & Research
Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!
of high school, but I mostly design and sew clothes for myself. If you -
Blog / Challenges
Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*
other life-related struggles on top of school still sucks. On Monday of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year
said something vague like “graduate school” because really I want to be -
Blog / Academics & Research
It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!
, Ethiopia, where my father went to middle school and many of my family members -
Blog / Academics & Research
“Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan
If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably remember seeing an inordinate number of calculators. You might’ve also observed students entering anything from 999*999 to sin(π/6) to 7 -
Blog / Academics & Research
Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.
When I’m feeling irritable and/or stressed, I dislike empty advice. I particularly loathe the phrase “work smarter not harder”, probably because it was said to me many times last year… -
Blog / Academics & Research
How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!
Do you have trouble writing? Does it feel like a daunting, excruciatingly slow, and unpleasant task no matter how you approach it? Have no fear, for I am here to… -
Blog / Featured Blogs
VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April
is done. Not that I don't like vlogging, it's just... y'know... school -
Blog / How to MIT
Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte
Dear Internet, I’m pleased to announce that I’m publishing a paper this year in affiliation with MIT’s Course 8 (Physics) department! Though I am only a freshman, I have decided… -
Blog / Featured Blogs
Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.
technical class at the school I'd wanted to go to since I was twelve, I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.
the school we know and presumably love, but instead to a " -
Blog / Admissions
Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters
and another school. The funny thing is I can’t seem to recall much from -
Blog / How to Human
Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far
In spaceflight, “attitude” refers to orientation: which direction your vehicle is pointing relative to the Sun, Earth, and other reference points. If you lose control of your attitude, two things… -
Blog / Admissions
AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!
’t bring homework - Forget about school and home and just let loose and -
Blog / MIT Life
SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes
space was cool. High School science was a less successful experience. In -
Blog / Admissions
A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking
school reflect these qualities. Some of them are already in your -
Blog / MIT Life
Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story
those of you who are in high school. Want something? Go get it. You don -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness
In eighth grade, I was Tessie in my school's production of Little Orphan Annie. Tessie is, like Annie, a little orphan, but unlike Annie, she's a wimp. When situations get rough, she jumps on her bed to get as far