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this comic was inspired by the pie invention scenes in Waitress the Musical
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Blog / MIT Life
Doctor Who?
can see exactly what our soldiers actually get to eat out in the desert ... summer, where she gets to "work from home" one day a week and sit in her ... to his thesis defense in full uniform: Doesn't Professor Tester (my -
Blog / Challenges
i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness
want to get things done. i have projects i'm, in theory, excited about ... without me in it. I don’t want to get left behind because everyone else has ... truly found paradise". and in i (don't) want the summer to end, i talk -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning
, business), get a “real” job, take a year off to figure things out, work for a ... thanks to the Rhodes Scholarship, followed by 7-8 years in an MD ... I will try to make a difference in the world within my field. Then I -
Blog / Admissions
Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.
in the garage and I use it to get to A to B. My car at college rests in ... , most people from my high school decided to stay in Texas for college for ... to put you in a new environment. Changes are destined to happen whether -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.
movie Kate decides to get serious, slits her wrists, and uses the blood to ... there to do in suburban Harrisburg, Pennsylvania? Well, not too much ... went to the only Starbucks in a 10 mile radius (formerly the greatest -
Blog / MIT Life
Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…
's couched underneath a few other stores in the area, it's hard to find, but ... coolness - not all of which I completely understand - to render images in ... I almost don't know how to get started with things. That same -
Blog / Classes
meandering my nonlinear academic path so far
lot of what I was looking forward to in college. freshman year As a ... to keep pursuing existing interests in computer science, while seeking ... lol” kind of way, since one of the first things I had to get used to at -
Blog / MIT Life
DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"
hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in ... sleeping in until 11 AM; I then rode my bike to the Student Center and ate a ... time to blowdry my hair normally. In fact, I don't even own a blow dryer -
Blog / IAP
The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!
happily give A's). But it's a lot easier for me to get good grades in ... workaholic has to get up at 6 AM to be in lab by 7 tomorrow morning! ... class to finish up the PE requirement. We are, in case you are unaware -
Blog / Admissions
Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.
like that in your life. 2) It helps to get an English teacher from a ... his hard drives was broken. So Patrick the Irish decided to stick it in ... meaning, so you are NOT ALONE in your endeavors to write great things -
Blog / Academics & Research
“Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright
in Beijing called Linked Hybrid. Of course I had to see Simmons ... Maps and found a way to get there via public transportation. But once I ... , shuffling through options in my head - I could go back to the bus station, go -
Blog / MIT Life
The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…
of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to ... human factors in what we bring to and need from our work. The one story ... behavior and human foibles just by observing people in relation to their cars -
Blog / Academics & Research
First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending
This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written ... are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a ... people tend to get lower grades first term at MIT than they've ever gotten -
Blog / Academics & Research
Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.
a mini mill in your dorm at MIT? And do you get time to work on your ... ordinary people who were either lucky enough to get in. Oh wait... to which ... Mechanical Engineering and only open to students in that major (likewise with -
Blog / Academics & Research
Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.
company back home in Houston to get experience, get paid, and get by without ... the summer to sit down and write them out. Two semesters in, and the ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of -
Blog / Academics & Research
The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet
. See, I'm starting to get interview invites from some of the graduate ... , I need to make travel arrangements. I'm supposed to be in LA in two ... rate, they need to get to me soon -- I just checked the Boston-LA flight -
Blog / MIT Life
Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.
offer. Of course, with P-Sets and all, it is easy to get caught up in your dorm or libraries all weekend. In my opinion though, there’s more to life ... stopped in places to get my mom and I a shirt, and I bought the mug feautred -
Blog / Admissions
Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road
hardships to get into MIT (or that hardships are the only way to get in ... we started a Black Student Union in our school to build community, but ... staying to get some home-cooked food from my mom during travels). There were -
Blog / Classes
busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down
"]for things to get worse,[/annotation] so we'll see how it goes. In the meantime ... ="Communication Intensive in the Humanities; basically means you have to write a certain ... forwards to being creative in yet another unique way. 21M.401, Concert