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I don’t understand This was weird.
I saw this today while walking back to the dorm.
Can anybody enlighten me?
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Blog / Admissions
The Final Countdown
I've just finished in New York City, where I did my last two days of outreach to students for the season. After this, I'll head back to the office ... for similar reasons. But I think Rice can give both schools are run for -
Blog / Challenges
Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen
your plate than you think you can handle during P/NR - it's how I exposed ... them. I can't encourage you enough to find programs, positions, and ... competent and building excellence in something not everyone can do that -
Blog / Academics & Research
Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time
?" in a few minutes. I had never heard of Fink, so I skimmed through the ... inability to engineer the DNA in yeast so that I could create yeast strains by ... for us. Computers are simple; they can only find the genes in a string -
Blog / Academics & Research
Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…
of the group -- because after all, if I can open someone else's eyes to ... day jobs. This summer, as in January, I've perched myself atop the flat ... freight railroading. I'm not out working in a rail yard -- I've actually got -
Blog / About Decisions
Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.
's Admitted Students Parties. Tomorrow, I hope to answer questions. So, in the ... schools jointly occupied the position of "dream school." I included both in ... over. You can guess which school I will attend after that conversation -
Blog / Academics & Research
It Ends My last last day of school
more to go. 12:05 PM – I head back to the maker lab in building E25 to ... fatigue, I have a lot of fun fielding questions and discussing ways in which ... us don't have any background in designing or making things, I'm quite -
Blog / Admissions
Trp
about interdisciplinary research in the life sciences. Now, I'm back in ... first in their family to attend college (like I was), more students who ... the mail for a week or so after it was mailed (i.e. "lost in the mail -
Blog / Academics & Research
Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…
-oriented and less "how many hours are you in the office" based, so I can work ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... , what can I possibly do when I'm not working? The answer is all the stuff -
Blog / Academics & Research
Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome
.03, though it's extremely obvious that I haven't taken a math class in a year ... Sooo ~ MIT's back in session and life is again much too full with everything except enough time. I'm taking the following classes this semester -
Blog / Admissions
Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening
stress for you or your advocates. How can I check that you have the ... of submitted supplemental materials. I can’t type endless text into my ... MIT. You can always check how your essays look in the PDF preview, which is -
Blog / How to Human
how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum
makeup, and then I had to get to school early so I could get in extra math ... , because I was deeply unpopular in high school. And no, it wasn't some trying ... + connections on LinkedIn, but he says it's because I dress like a kid, to which I -
Blog / Personal Projects
ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night
Hallo! My friend, Caleb M. ‘27 and I are currently in the MIT ... work I’ve accomplished tonight: I CADed up this piece for my robot in ... ’s what I’ll call it. Here’s the prototype I built in lab today. It uses -
Blog / Admissions
Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...
I'm sitting at my desk in my robe right now. I'm on my 5th cup of coffee. I ate some Count Chocula. Nice visual. For those not familiar ... to do it at home. That's why I'm here. So, I'm taking a break because -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.
admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... instruments I was arranging for would sound like in real life. Twelve non ... jazzy with an alto sax. Somewhere in the middle of all this, I spent 8 -
Blog / MIT Life
Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…
of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think ... say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new ... surrounded by new people and a new dorm; in a lot of ways I was starting all -
Blog / Miscellaneous
In or Out?
Out. I'm pretty disappointed, but hey, it could be worse. So it goes. -
Blog / Challenges
Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.
bipolar.) The real turning point in my illness took place on Friday, when I ... I think at that point I was pretty much speaking like Yoda. In fact, I ... wasn't going to make it very far. So I called in and talked to the dean -
Blog / Academics & Research
Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…
[/annotation]. I couldn’t possibly do that! Damaging the scarves in any way was out ... Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could ... % pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was skeptical of these scarves as -
Blog / Admissions
The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.
can have a regional competition here in the UK for the first time. In ... capitalization rules can be manipulated in order to force acronyms to spell words ... host a summit for all the recipients. In May, I got an e-mail from one of