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Blog / MIT Life
Finally, a free minute
helping with Macgregor rush and in-house rush for my entry. Somehow I got ... madly in love with me. Or something like that. At the moment, I'm pretty ... Syndrome, I have this idea in my head that I got into MIT because I'm lucky -
Blog / Classes
On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…
not finishing it. I had nothing. When I went to give my presentation in ... , that's why I'm in 8.01L. Jojo Jojo ... development. I recently applied (as in, 30 minutes before I started writing this -
Blog / Hacks
One Giant Leap For beaver kind
, just because the dome is so visible and I'm more likely to see a hack in ... tripod or anything, I've got a cybershot throw-in-your-pocket camera. BUT ... the same picture zoomed in really close. I've played with the brightness -
Blog / MIT Life
MIT Culture Shock
So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... that I realized that I hadn't seen clouds in three months. I called ... update to say that I made it safely back to Boston after 20 hours in -
Blog / Challenges
“But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?
my grades are good, and last week I fell In love for the first time ... look at it: I got into MIT, I swam in seas of blankets With the ... serious? When I look in the mirror it’s just Blahh blah blah blah blegh -
Blog / Academics & Research
Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~
somewhat similar to junior year of high school, in that I feel I’ve somewhat established myself somewhat now. In my UROP, which I’ve had for 5 semesters now ... campus, I’ve been quite happy participating in the MIT undergraduate -
Blog / Miscellaneous
In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle @NatGeo, pls hire me
During my trip to Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa I spent two days on a Game Reserve. We stayed on the very top of a hill in Hluhluwe , sleeping in actual huts. It was foggy and when it rained it was absolutely -
Blog / MIT Life
vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again
, so I'm about a 10-minute walk from campus. I'm staying in two adjacent ... for granted once I left MIT, so it's wonderful to be back in this kind ... incredible. Just having the ability to be present in the city I love alongside -
Blog / Academics & Research
The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*
successful -- I cried at every single movie I saw in theatres in 2005. While ... in my form (to the lovely Jessie, I might add), I ran into my friend ... ), and I'm heading to a PhD program in biology. And it's all super -
Blog / Challenges
IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)
of the year when life explodes in your face. Currently, I am in one of those conditions. It is finals week, and I hate everything. In fact, I ... have no idea how well I did in 2.12 despite the fact that I spent hours -
Blog / MIT Life
Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab
early last Wednesday morning. In these last five days, I feel like I ... , I have to say that that probably takes great moral fortitude in its ... also exist likewise in all MIT dorms. However, I feel except for diehard -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.
...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the ... a construction project in the Infinite Corridor. Formerly the world ... -107) and one women's restroom (3-101). But that's about to change. And in -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus
. Most people I know in doubles use bunk beds because it saves space. My ... separate beds. I've seen bunk beds in Simmons but don't know if they ... ugly campus. And, in general, I tend to agree, in the sense that the -
Blog / Challenges
Questions from Beyond one last blog
in the first reason. I’m less than three days away from my starting my ... building to since I was 19-years-old and decided I wanted to work in ... how I do things in order to keep advancing? I mean it got me here, but -
Blog / MIT Life
Jon and me how I came to see the world
September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new state; in fact, I was still living in an extended stay hotel with my ... make sense of them again. I watched TDS nearly every night in high -
Blog / Challenges
Working With WashLava Time management in low places
's technicalities. Okay, can I perform in the class? Honestly, I'm grossly unprepared ... . Do I really want to major in 6-9 or 11-6, or am I actually just interested in 9 or 11? Do I feel called to Course 6, or do I feel required to -
Blog / Admissions
Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.
, etc. I agree that it is easier said than done, but I'm in the same boat ... means as much as I'm afraid to press the submit button, in order to have ... I've been reading a lot of the comments about the applications that -
Blog / Academics & Research
Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.
... Hmm I don't know when I was actually planning to hand it in... June 4th ... . I am in the office from 1:30 to 5:15 so drop it off sometime between ... so psyched to leave. Then, just in time for the home stretch I caught -
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' sister in Beijing before I left, so I looked up the coordinates on Google ... , shuffling through options in my head - I could go back to the bus station, go