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Blog / Academics & Research
Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions
myself useful in ways that I can be for people who are struggling. 5 ... , I sat with my mom in my house, watching the ball drop on my television, sweating because there is not winter in Southwest Florida. Now, I sit -
Blog / MIT Life
wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit
now that I'm here, I can verify. They are, in fact, different. I could ... . I didn't know what to expect going in to it, knowing literally not one ... point. Dorms. For my FPOP and most of REX, I was living in East Campus -
Blog / MIT Life
What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…
When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don ... . Later life goals have less charm. In fifth grade I wanted to be President -
Blog / Challenges
101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out
-campus? Can I afford to move off-campus? Why are people wearing shorts in the ... in. At the same time, this new independence has been exhilarating. I ... asked ourselves at some point in our MIT adventure so far. And I assure -
Blog / About Decisions
Finding Your Match and why it matters
't really part of my college search vocabulary or conceptual framework. I can ... at a rural but well-resourced public high school in New Hampshire. I ... I was stronger in the humanities and social sciences than in STEM, so -
Blog / Academics & Research
What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.
Taiwan (where it is wonderfully 80 degrees outside. I can envision the warm ... difficulty of 8.012, but after seeing the work in the first couple of weeks, I ... .01 is taught using the TEAL method, which I kind of explained in this -
Blog / Academics & Research
An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.
last carefree summer in Cape Coma. After a week of I-95 mayhem, I walked into Maseeh Hall, where I awkwardly approached the wrong desk to check-in ... crashing down… right in the lobby, making the scene I had so dreaded. It was -
Blog / Academics & Research
Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else
. I hate the disparities in its student population. I hate the way I can ... Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day ... in journals. I'm approximately four weeks into my second semester, and -
Blog / MIT Life
Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.
conducting work equally in both languages. So, now I can say high ... , after paying, which actually is way easier in Germany, I went downstairs ... word in German for "the Pope" is "Papst" and I kept thinking he was -
Blog / Admissions
End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.
remain on the waitlist.Unfortunately, I have to take back what I said in a ... , but I know that there will be many more times when I can see awesome ... It was a nice, relaxing 3-day weekend here. Summer has arrived in -
Blog / MIT Life
I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature
kicked in; I'm allergic to pretty much every type of tree you can think of ... [/caption] Being in the middle of nature was SO peaceful and relaxing. I've never ... [/caption] I'm really thankful that the arboretum is still open even in this -
Blog / Challenges
how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away
, if I would have been better off someplace else. In classes, I ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something ... communities I cared about. In my head, I had divided my math vs. HASS classes -
Blog / Miscellaneous
And I am telling you I’m going And you, and you, and you, you're gonna love me.
-year career. Well, I sure enjoyed my month home in Harrisburg, although you wouldn't know it because I blogged only about things that happened ... , but it's a really intense course: 9 days, 9 hours a day, 9 units. I can -
Blog / How to Human
A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey
Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I ... . I think I maybe had a brief stint with it in the summer before? 9th -
Blog / Classes
semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!
school where I can do so while majoring in something completely different ... growing old? can someone tell me how i got here, and there, and to all these ... look like in a few months. I could, and maybe sometime I will, write -
Blog / Admissions
I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.
beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends ... Hypothesis if it is actually false." Last year I wrote an entry on a one-question examination that could be used in lieu of an application to admit people to MIT -
Blog / Admissions
You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.
, can we have dinner tomorrow night? i feel like i haven't seen you all in ... When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For -
FAQ / Transfer
Can I apply if I already have a degree?
MIT doesn’t award second bachelor’s degrees, regardless of the course of study. We encourage you to apply to MIT as a graduate student. -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
What I just did You'll never believe it.
the score from my last test. Can you say "fail?" I can! Oh, 2.005 is ... different types of food you can have brought to you when you go to MIT. I ... 10 minutes ago I actually heard myself say "I really need to eat and
