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Blog / Challenges
Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains
Last Sunday, some friends and I walked across the state of Rhode Island! This idea originated last year, when my friend Xavier and some of ... people from MIT and Brown University to walk the Walk again. I was super -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time
plan on taking Analog Electronics Lab, Solid State Devices, and C and ... relieved to finally be done with anything. It was both distressing and ... talk and a fireshow, write a 10 page essay, and study for my two finals -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane
harbor, it's super pretty to walk around and also is home to the Institute ... are thinking critically about the state of public health and healthcare ... year and graduation and "the end" all felt so far out of reach. I wasn -
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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Challenges
MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing
wasn't entirely unexpected, and I don't feel that bad about it. I generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of trying to figure it out and then, once I'd gone to office hours and been -
Blog / Life after MIT
This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school
, and Prof. Arthur Bahr generously offered to read it with me. After I ... take in one’s hand a thread which continues always and through all ... the good I could do for the world) and would maximize, if I could only -
Blog / MIT Life
Visit YouTube to Participate in the World Economic Forum! Have world leaders watch and respond to your video at this year's World Economic Forum!
will watch and offer video responses to the highest-rated videos. The website offers five tips for increasing the likelihood of your video's being ... ://www.youtube.com/thedavosquestion and post a video response of no more than three minutes to the following -
Blog / How to Human
many thoughts head full
easily to me and though friends offer to help me, I can't help but feel ... 's a feeling of too much and not enough going on. During the days where I have things to do, I feel happy and fulfilled. IAP is truly what I make -
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 / Challenges
I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.
15 +/-2, I would have given you a solid 9.5 and then offered to adjust ... , an Ethiopian feast, vegan carrot cake, and the coolest farm ... dinner for 30, 105 miles of running, and a lot of Barack Obama have -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.
if MIT had to go the way of large state schools and begin having ... down the page at this point) about increasing class size at MIT, and how ... turned into an entry of its own. I am dismayed that this year and next -
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 / Admissions
Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"
about applying to our institution, we give your counselors and teachers ... fun and exciting event where all admitted students who come to campus ... soundcheck and Mocha Moves, one of our amazing hip hop dance groups, were -
Blog / Admissions
Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.
colleges and universities, the high-priced independent counselors, the test ... of 42.6 degrees for said aardvark, where is the banana and why is that ... at some of some of the blogging highlights of Ben's 4 years (and 194 -
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