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Blog / MIT History & Culture
MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…
when I felt like I didn't really fit in at M.I.T.," she wrote. "I nearly ... deprivation. I was bored out of my mind." Still, in other ways, Ms. Chinea ... example, wrote: "I didn't know about the anime club. I would have never -
Blog / Uncategorized
Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch
absolutely suck at. I would often miss the ball right in front of me, but by ... some of the dumb shit I participated in. [caption id="attachment_112772 ... , chugging milk, and dying of heat in the middle of winter. I started on the -
Blog / Challenges
Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable
my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a row at this point, and I figured that it would only be appropriate to ... Pirate Certificate – 25% complete. In my defense, I'm really trying to take -
Blog / How to Human
Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails
I hadn't been sick in years. I mean sure, I've had the occasional ... that I got it. So what do you do when you're sick in college? Honestly ... that day, and went back to bed. I hoped that I would wake up refreshed -
Blog / Academics & Research
Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.
knew would be due in a few days. I got my forms signed, chatted with the ... adventures in Italy (which I still haven't told you about, man I'm bad at this ... -Spain) but she was in a meeting. On my way to my advisor's office I waved to a -
Blog / Classes
the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it
class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle school (before getting too busy in high school), so I took the Advanced ... I started to doubt my plan to major in 6. But now that I'm coding -
Blog / MIT Life
Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!
have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I spend some of my free time trying to get ahead in classes, etc. I try to ... before. As far as the most popular sports, I personally would have to say -
Blog / Academics & Research
Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity
class in high school! This… is unimaginable, what else would I be?? I got ... , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing ... fascinating, I somehow felt like I was missing something - biology, in its pure -
Blog / Best from staff
Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)
in every math class I took. Although my high school was incredibly ... for the prestige), and would often belittle me and make me feel dumb in ... say, I stopped taking honors STEM courses. In fact, in my senior year, I -
Blog / Internships & Externships
My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row
and our teachers would nominate select students to participate. I didn ... mess in the beginning of the school year and, in hindsight, I should have gone to CAPD in the beginning of the year. At this point in time, I wasn -
Blog / Uncategorized
Bloggerduction a challenger appears
Hi! I'm Qiaochu Yuan. That's "chow-chew," as in ... write a math blog, Annoying Precision. I'm interested in a lot of ... lot about it, too. I'm interested in physics, cognitive science and -
Blog / MIT Life
In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?
just spent an hour making, I'm sitting in a chair listening to Pandora ... Oshima (Director of the Artist-in-Residence Program), and I went to the MFA ... Any time I have disappeared off the face of the earth - or just from -
Blog / Admissions
My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school
honesty I don’t think I would have noticed my school's lack in drive if I ... high school. In fact I loved my high school. No matter where I went or ... early morning emails telling me where I might have potential flaws in my -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year
watched it during a phase in my life where I truly believed that all art had ... ." Comedy and calamity ensue. I would provide you more context, but ... , Nicole and I started a tradition of turning off all the lights in the -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships
been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group ... myself in having the best friends in the world. This semester, I felt a cold and sobering moment as I sat in my friend's dorm room in the late -
Blog / Challenges
When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester
I would, but perhaps the same life lesson can hit you in waves, each ... lungs wheezed for air, someday I would reach that place, the place where it was finally enough, and I would be at peace knowing that I could -
Blog / MIT Life
Snow snow snow. I'm wearing bright colors so if I get caught in a snow drift someone will…
going to drown in snow on my way to class. If I never post again, you now ... An email I just sent out to my sorority: from: Shannon to: Theta date: Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:10 AM subject: Snow snow snow. So I'm from West -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)
still in Boston. To their third objection, I smugly pointed out that ... foreign license only if I’ve been in the country for less than a month. But I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip -
Blog / MIT Life
the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.
. I received an email in my inbox that read: yesterday was someone ... campus, I finally found my present hidden in a dryer in the Baker laundry ... So on Sunday, I turned 20. I am now OLD. Now since I have a summer