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Blog / About Decisions
This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles
that. I’d probably go to a local state school and maybe apply for ... alternative vision, I'm happy too. Happier? Possibly. In this Universe, I can -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals
(and advocate for universal acceptance of) the “pset” standard, unless I ... from the state of their psets. A hastily penciled, tattered sheet of 70 -
Blog / Life after MIT
One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello
friends in Heidelberg find this idea of "campus life" weird. "University" is ... representative of the United States, so I read an American history book. Then -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism
time off from MIT. I ended up attending classes at a local university in ... be a permanent state, but it wasn't so bad. Sure beat being hosed as an -
Blog / Admissions
QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars
Quynh, I thought I would be going to my state school (University of -
Blog / MIT Life
MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.
't-slept-for-31-hours state*: "power out. naptime." *Last night. Was. Not. Fun. But ... universality. According to Anonymous Fourth Guy, "young people are terrified of -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.
UROP. We are drafting submissions to the United Nation's Universal ... this song. So even though I was born in the United States, I've never -
Blog / Research & Work Abroad
Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.
-minded view that most of the things in my life were "just normal" or universal ... ! (And just in time, right?) After my previous state of confusion, this is -
Blog / About Decisions
Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…
EMT state exam, which I took after having taken a month-long eight ... much of something that really matters out into the universe without -
Blog / MIT Life
Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…
Engineering department, informing me that I needed to fill out my degree ... the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as ... your name will look like on the degree, but...let's not jinx this, okay -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?
average high temperature of 36 degrees and an average low of 22 degrees ... around an extremely pleasant 65 degrees! My classmates and I took advantage -
Blog / MIT Life
Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!
down on your stomach at the 30-degree (or pi/6 radians, if you prefer ... -degree sauna into a 36-degree river. So, I hope you don't mind me writing -
Blog / Admissions
Class of 2010 profile A ststistical look at the incoming freshmen.
& PR 16% Midwest & Plains States 14% South/Southwest 11% West Coast 19% Abroad 10% States represented 49 Countries represented 49 Schooling: Public -
Blog / MIT Life
Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.
course catalog that some departments (like 10 and 22) offer a joint BS and ... want a masters degree in your subject pretty much by the end of sophomore ... 're sure you want that masters degree, I think a five-year program is a super -
Blog / Academics & Research
A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?
closer to the universe, and the universe closer to me. About halfway ... that may not involve a graduate degree in physics. In the past, many -
Blog / Personal Projects
in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland
Magically [annotation note="university wifi, typically found at universities, not hostels 20 km from the nearest grocery store ... . Someone offered me juice made with dried peaches, which has a special name -
Blog / Academics & Research
You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers
into great universities, but ended up attending local community colleges ... universities thought otherwise and calculated unrealistically high expected ... things MIT students do to afford college. Does MIT offer sholarships to -
Blog / Classes
Exam Cram a comic in which my friend tries to save me from chem
Bonus: 3.091 (Solid-State Chemistry) class has a weekly meme contest. Because I'm a try hard and didn't know how to make proper memes, I drew a comic. The topic was on orbitals and hybridization. I really like it, so I -
Blog / Admissions
First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.
; Plains States 13% South/Southwest 8% West Coast 18% Abroad 13% States ... Least distance traveled: Cambridge, MA The only two US states not represented: Montana and New Mexico The most represented US state: California