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Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?
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Blog / Extracurriculars
Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs
memo. In all seriousness though, I actually do get sleep, usually about 6 – 7 hours a night. I know there are those people here that don ... This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this -
Blog / MIT Life
What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?
I can spend 16 hours straight in the shop soldering my PCB boards* and ... A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... ^2). She asked if I'd mind showing her around the 'tvte, as it seemed -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Update from Kentucky
This entry doesn't have much content, it's just a placeholder while I come up with real things to write. In the past week and a half I've gone ... most of the false positives, and in the meantime I'll keep playing with -
Blog / Academics & Research
Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p
Chuck, I helped design underwater robots for students at a university in ... in high school, but I'm glad I can be here now. And you don't have to ... MIT, heck I was making board games out of cardboard in high school. But -
Blog / MIT Life
Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!
Welcome back to another tour – and I hope you're excited, because ... concept, but what’s even crazier is that we actually have 26 of them in total! A lot of my friends ended up joining frats freshman year, so I -
Blog / Life after MIT
Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]
After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for ... talk I submitted was unceremoniously declined. After we moved in 2021 ... competing bids. I hit up a grad school acquaintance in my new city who never -
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 / Art, Literature, Music
Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.
recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people ... inclusions: Wrapped in Red by Kelly Clarkson: I haven't actually listened ... pretty much everybody. (I, by the way, still believe in Santa. I just can -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Different Kind of Learning
course of the semester. I am spending the semester in Detroit; Sao Paulo ... I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that ... . Well we haven’t actually left the country yet, in many ways Detroit faces -
Blog / Academics & Research
Where do Trees Come From?
does that huge increase in mass come from? I want to hear your answers and reasoning in the comments... just think about it; no Wikipedia! I also want your input on something else for 11.125. I need to sit in on -
Blog / Admissions
Quick update
I guess the folks who staff the phones in MIT Admissions received ... midyear report. Q. Can I still send in extra materials? A. While it is too ... . Q. If selection is over, can I have my decision? A. The selection -
Blog / Personal Projects
[liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends
broke my leg. (don’t worry, I’ll walk again in a few months and be fully ... Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I ... , which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Top Ten of All Time; 2024 Edition ft. Barack Obama aka Minesweeper Monday EP 2
In this episode, which was most certainly posted on a Monday, I talk about making a pizza, and how Simmons hall doesn't have a sheet pan in any of the 6 kitchens, but has a muffin tray in every single one?? None of -
Blog / Life after MIT
Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.
Hello world! I have returned from the -- well, to be honest, I never really left this place. I just lurk and cruft and linger in the tunnels ... .) In a weird convergence of universes, I ended up teaching a class that -
Blog / Academics & Research
Cue the montage music
changed, as I am still (sort of, I’ll explain) in school at MIT, doing ... me assure you that I graduated with a MechE/BME degree in 2008. I have ... , meaning I’ve finished the first two years of medical school (in the Harvard -
Blog / Extracurriculars
DDR Tetris Read: The silliest video I have ever made.
stand partner in the MIT Symphony Orchestra had made. Then, a couple months ago, I had the opportunity to see it first-hand during an impromptu cello section social. Then, I let the footage remain in my Flip -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Welcome 2014s!! :) See you in the fall!
finally made the decision on matriculation! For all of those that replied in the affirmative, congratulations! You're in for one heck of a ride. ^______^V but don't worry, you'll be in with some of the best company you will -
Blog / Academics & Research
Travels Winter break is here!
goes on. Personally I decided to go back MIT for 2 weeks and then going home in California for the rest of the break. I know, lame, but I spend the whole summer in Germany through this awesome program called MISTI -
Blog / MIT Life
Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!
I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound ... in India. Last Tuesday was my final day in Anaikatti, when I turned in