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Blog / Admissions
Room Tour 2017 edition
2021s, can't wait to meet y'all this week! To give you guys a sneak peek of what is to come, I (finally!) got around to learning how to film and edit videos. Here's my first shot at it, and a room tour to show for -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Food No Context blogging no context
professor gave had free coffee and biscuits for us in class. Love Course 15 ... potatoes, and plantains. 6:29PM braided danish for dessert -
Blog / Academics & Research
“Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't
’s, and a whole slew of other acronyms leave you with a warm, tingly feeling ... -eyed, confident, and on top of the world. So, now, this may be the moment where you ... , there’s a little nerve in the very back of her head and at the tips of her -
Blog / Academics & Research
Adventure Coming full circle at MIT
Now that it's break, I finally have time to sit down and actually ... past semester- and it was quite the adventure! I probably spent more time ... 22 other amazing people over the course of the semester, and we pulled -
Blog / MIT Life
Thoughts on Snow quick notes from the journal.
The first substantial snowfall was yesterday, December 9. Things about snow: Don't welcome it with a fire alarm and evacuation at 9 ... it, and it becomes slush. More stupid: rain's bastard little half -
Blog / MIT Life
Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!
... time... haha, see what I did there? I should stop.), Bill and Ted ... that means I have both the TIME to watch movies AND constant access to ... : Another Earth Of Gods and Men A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints -
Blog / Challenges
Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.
head. MIT, the place that I call home, the place where I learn and live, the place where I felt safe, threatened by armed people? And all this ... happen? I sought solace from some other friends and watched the events -
Blog / Events
How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food
the MIT community practice better etiquette. And one of the most ... popular, in fact, that I'm told there was a 50-person waitlist, and my ... minute, though, I whipped out my blogger "media" credentials and managed to -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs
’t sleep, but I am not one of those. None of my close friends are, and I ... information as well when you’re awake, and you might say or do some things ... , and they also need weekends, if not only to catch up on sleep. No matter -
Blog / Extracurriculars
How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.
presses, and even a 3-D printer! Now that I think about it, I wish I had ... wonderful and free as the Edgerton Shop, the only catch is that you have to ... thinking that training is probably awful and really boring. BUT this is MIT -
Blog / Academics & Research
Too Good to Just Tweet About Hello blogosphere! Yes, I'm still alive and tweeting (@MikeyMIT)...
Hello blogosphere! Yes, I'm still alive and tweeting (@MikeyMIT). The reading and selection period has been intense as ever this year, but I promise as we approach mid-March, I hope to have some more blog updates -
Blog / Academics & Research
Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.
" and/or the book on which it was based, Ben Mezrich's "Bringing Down the ... a gift, and started thinking about how the algorithm behind the ... studying his tickets and some statistical sleuthing, but he discovered a -
Blog / Academics & Research
Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…
morning, meaning I woke up at 7:15 (the horror!). The house is empty and I ... lectures focused more on conceptual things and “thinking like a programmer ... time I checked in... We learned about hashing, and how it's a trade -
Blog / Miscellaneous
MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.
by the amount of spam and youtube videos that are coming into my inbox ... : Watch her discuss MIT at Fire and Ice! haha "You can become anything -
Blog / Academics & Research
Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.
(7 mini and colorful, 4 retractable) Hand sanitizer Laundry ... balls, yoyos, bottle openers, sunglasses, cozies And my personal favorite, a wind-up boogie robot I just recently sorted, organized, and -
Blog / Events
Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.
I should be studying for my 1.00 and 3.091 exams right now...but I'm not. It has been a while since I uploaded a video, I have a lot of ... the end of the show...and here is how we kicked off the beginning of the -
Blog / IAP
My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title
chemistry, physics, and English in four and a half hours. (oh, and write two ... abroad through things like D-Lab, and on campus in research labs through ... our IAP listing, and Mystery Hunt!!, see this year's), or to just go -
Blog / MIT Life
Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫
! Honestly, I'm amazed, I have tweeted exactly 10 times in over a year and I have 30 followers. I'm not that interesting, honestly, and I don't use ... and potentially prompting them to not apply to MIT. The truth of the -
Blog / Admissions
Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!
training and have started working on the MIT-EMS ambulance. On your end: CPW ... narrow my decision down to two schools, and there is no better way to get a ... . There will be hundreds of booths and thousands of strangers handing out