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Blog / Academics & Research
Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.
friend, and another guy have started a company. He wants to take a year to devote himself fully to the start-up. And he's trying to get a freshman I ... called Dropbox, and I must say I'm impressed by their technology and ease -
Blog / Admissions
New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.
A new and different episode of ZigZag, MIT's video podcast, is up ... went about contacting students and setting up a production schedule. I sent out an email to a dozen random (and awesome) freshmen that I know -
Blog / Challenges
My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.
: And it wouldn't be Valentine's Day without: r = a(1 - cos(theta)) Plot ... infection rendering my voiceless and without a desire to eat. So I think my ... you have a viral infection. You should take some Robitussin CF and oh -
Blog / Admissions
By the numbers Who needs words to talk?
giveaway that the person you’re talking to has been fully and wholeheartedly immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and ... . The first number after the dash gives the floor in the building, and the -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…
considerable grant money, and over the course of a year, create something truly ... heard about OpenCourseWare, a large (and well-funded) effort to put all of ... opportunity, a way to explain the research process through material, context and -
Blog / Academics & Research
Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…
Yesterday was my team's first full day in Zambia, and what a day it ... , where we walked through an open-air produce market and into a large ... during the day, and although I wore a hat and drank lots of water I got -
Blog / Admissions
The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.
existed, and I'm kind of glad I didn't because I think I would have gone ... , and got H A's in my entire life. I applied and got into MIT. Someone ... their SAT, and got H + 5 A's. They applied and did not get into MIT. Does -
Blog / MIT Life
Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.
DID YOU KNOW? On keyboards in German internet cafes, the y and z keys ... and noticed a tabloid magazine on the counter which, as far as my ... life and exclusive pictures. So, that's been my first encounter with -
Blog / Academics & Research
My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.
Studies minor, taught by Lori Breslow and Bernd Widdig. Lori is the director of MIT's Teaching & Learning Lab and Bernd is the associate ... the same room as last term's writing class, and is held in a similar -
Blog / Admissions
Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.
, which is actually part of the School of Architecture and Planning and not the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.) We went to the South Street Diner, which, according to both Ruth and the How to GAMIT is -
Blog / MIT Life
Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.
So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... three-day weekend per month during term, and sometimes a four-day weekend -
Blog / Academics & Research
Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.
all the innocnet and clueless froshies. This convenient relationship ... innocent and clueless froshies bond together over an interesting but random ... ," and it takes places in E15-001, aka The Lego Learning Laboratory. E15 -
Blog / How to Human
Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die
My last post was on my gap year, which was wild, full of writing, and very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... someone will feel inspired, and we can dream of what we'll be doing when the -
Blog / MIT Life
I Hate the First or at least, I used to
of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do ... year, and then, after a complete 60 seconds of awkward silence as the camera pans around the dorm room, it’s 8am, and an alarm goes off. A hand -
Blog / Summer
this summer a recap of sorts
It's September, school has started, and I know that before long I ... busy with classes, and clubs, and grabbing lunch at the stud with friends. So before that happens, and before the feeling of summer slips away -
Blog / Academics & Research
Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?
; This is a really good question, because it forced me to think and deeply consider why I found MIT so hard--and exactly what it is that causes ... teaching and learning philosophy of MIT, and exactly what makes it this -
Blog / Events
Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to
.[/annotation] The party is open to the entire MIT campus and features a hack and a ... Third) DTYD started in 1969 when two Bombers (Classes of ’70 and ’71) wanted to celebrate their 21st birthdays and decided to indulge in a party -
Blog / Classes
every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them
[/caption] Here's every class I went to: #1: 6.4110, Representation, Inference and ... Intelligence, and if there's a class I'm investing a lot of effort into this ... our own virtual machine and learn about all the nitty-gritty details of -
Blog / MIT Life
growing over time continuing to become myself
my ramblings resonate perfectly. And if that's the case, then that ... , and this post is for you. During the semester, mired in work and trying to juggle a million things, I never have as much time to sit and
