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Blog / About Decisions
MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…
or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way... what would ... surprising, but I’m willing to bet that in that year off, you’ll learn more ... year of college.) In my case, I took two years off and arrived on campus -
Blog / Admissions
Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*
ways of the humblebrag, I was challenged. In addition, I was confronted ... (and still am). In addition, I felt like each of the essays I wrote could ... ; Fast forward to today, and I can point to every misconception in the -
Blog / Admissions
I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...
before the meeting. 11:30am. I arrive in Ann Arbor a little early, so I go ... , 2008 The next couple days, I visit a few high schools in the area, and ... 10, 2008 The next morning, I head in to the office to run a couple of -
Blog / Academics & Research
ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…
myself I would never become. What happened to make me neglect my ... ’m sticking to. I would like to take this time to announce that the Chemical ... time. I honestly wish that I had kept track of how many hours I spent in -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Black Lives Matter until they don't.
week in this country, that word popped up a lot. In orientation, I ... afloat in the comforting bubble of MIT, so it didn’t really matter. I had ... , but even as I’m tapping around and feeling both cards secure and in -
Blog / MIT Life
Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.
in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I ... behind in tasks that you would normally manage, like laundry and dishes ... embarrassed for other people to see your mess...but you would still let them in -
Blog / Classes
thoughts on math@MIT! math month post
Jonathan. I joined the department as a postdoc last year. I'm interested in ... . [annotation note="Fatima: I took Seminar in Topology last semester with Jonathan!"][/annotation] (let's call them) Z: I'm a recent MIT alum who majored in 18, and now in -
Blog / Challenges
head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes
further until I was eventually in the deep end. When I jumped in, I remember ... forth underneath me while I tried to propel myself up. Keep in mind that ... that we’re learning in class. Here, I took two midterms last week, and a -
Blog / Challenges
Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post
, by the way"s it was wrapped in, the criticism still stinged. When I ... trash" to "barely acceptable". I knew that the puzzle would be poorly ... close enough to that. I justify it in the sense that, having a regular -
Blog / Academics & Research
Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.
their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... liver tissue than in static 2D tissue culture plates. What I spent a lot ... research projects; it's my turn! So since sophomore year, I've been working -
Blog / Classes
How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)
fact, if rotations were in 90-degree increments instead, this model would ... in true MIT fashion, I leave the proof as an exercise to the reader ... . Coincidentally, [annotation note="I bet she can rotate cubes omnidirectionally in -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.
Near the end of winter break, I was sitting in an uncomfortable ... anything to blog about, just a lack of time in which I can do so. (I am ... every other sentence in this paragraph.^_^) As I stated above, I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix
I don't want to rule out. I'm thinking things must have changed in the ... MIT grads in med school? Should I worry about that? And Lori said in ... were back in the day. As I hope you can tell from reading the blogs -
Blog / Admissions
Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road
that was a 15-minute drive from the house I grew up in (where I was ... high school visit, I got in my car and cried. I cried not only because ... unfair and inequitable education is in the United States. I cried because I -
Blog / Admissions
Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!
When I was in Madrid, I often spent my afternoons wandering around in ... one. Just a glimpse of what I did in high school: Summer '04 - Canada ... ), then it's back to square one. In my year, I think one team had to restart -
Blog / Academics & Research
Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!
to code in this class, so I would definitely come in with some type of ... ! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That ... love languages, and I tested into Spanish 4 because of my AP scores in -
Blog / Classes
What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific
did manage to fit it in my schedule. I didn’t really read the description that ... projects in the makerspace, and were [annotation note="“I didn’t know you ... cool. I don’t think I particularly want to work in any kind of wet lab -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.
DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused ... vacation in Scotland. From a train window, they saw a black sheep in the -
Blog / Life after MIT
MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…
practicioners of pitching biomechanics in the world. Wanting to know more, I ... as a kid. After a while it became apparent that I was stronger in the classroom than on the baseball field. I went to MIT, majored in mechanical