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Blog / Admissions
The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.
, musicians and everything in between. Some are teachers, teaching in schools not far from yours while others are in school as students themselves ... your interview. I say that NOT because I have provided them with a test -
Blog / Academics & Research
To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.
euthanized sometime in the next few days. (Insert me pretending that I'm not actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the ... connects other types of proteins. (I made that figure myself, in Paint -
Blog / Academics & Research
Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.
Before getting too far into this entry, let me just say that I and all of my colleagues in Admissions and across MIT have those people affected in the Gulf Coast in our minds and in our hearts. It's an emotional -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!
shop in Seattle), and I gathered to select the bloggers who will join our ... language so I could play FF7 in Japanese (aka ultimate weeb goals?? hell yea ... Reckoning. It wasn’t really like that. We spent FOUR HOURS in our committee -
Blog / Academics & Research
I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…
whatever). Put them all in a pot except for the potatoes, cook for two ... something very, very satisfying in garnishing soup with plants from your own -
Blog / Athletics
3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!
course, I also spent a good chunk of time in lab working on my final ... Maneuver Silver Medalists![/caption] I debuted a new free program in ... Tuesday, I performed my short program at my home rink in Revere for an -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!
The 3D Lounge Experience For this part, I ask you to settle in a ... is still in its beta stage. If I’m in bed before sunrise, I did well. Now the sun is on the brink of rising. So I must hide in my bed for -
Blog / MIT Life
Dorm Rush and Hall Rush
then there was Hall Rush (or In-House Rush...I guess if you're in, say ... Harvey will care that I bled on the 'S'?" I carved out the letters in "East Campus" in the picture below. I also managed to stab myself in the hand -
Blog / Classes
Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world
, Peru [annotation note="I flew from Santiago, in case anyone was actually ... but somehow I ended up in Russia at a computer vision hackathon. It ... abroad. I was in Pavia, a train ride away from Milan, living with two of my -
Blog / Extracurriculars
How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.
popped up on my phone, I knew I was born for this moment. So for everyone ... deep in your bones. You don't choose the Suit. The Suit chooses you. 2 ... around since you're quite literally flying blind in there. This took me -
Blog / About Decisions
MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
; You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you ... in to decisions.mit.edu. Between Early and Regular Action -
Blog / Academics & Research
Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!
related. Can I get involved in nanotechnology at MIT? Absolutely! In ... . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT, so I figured I might as well take this opportunity to clear up some of -
Blog / Events
Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.
. I can tell you that the answers (in order) will be a nine-letter word ... One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description -
Blog / Admissions
Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.
. I was happy to be able to help out. Now, as I watch from a hotel in thousand of miles and an entire country away (in Toronto), I can only send my ... , where every school in the entire county has been closed. San Diego County -
Blog / Life after MIT
Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.
-shirt that said "In the future, I'm famous." UROP: Morgan Sheng's lab in Course ... Topics in Mammalian Biology) and 9.301 (Neural Plasticity) -- both were ... -- I can go into his office and plop down on a chair and whine about my -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1
; Here's the writeup I turned in (click the arrows to scroll through the ... cons of the symbol, and improve on it throughout 3 iterations. I chose the 1E logo (my hall in East Campus). AutoCAD was strongly -
Blog / Events
Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…
Truth be told, I have no idea how to use the MIT admissions web ... blogging position for 1/38th of my life. Therefore, this post will be in 100 ... be told honestly this time, I've actually forgotten how to write -
Blog / Events
#WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration
I plan on presenting in the form of a Tech Article, a Powerpoint ... SMASH stands for Students At MIT Allied for Student Health. I am on ... lacking - communication. I've been working on a project to collect and -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems
ago I landed in Austin, Texas to start an internship at Lumension (they ... there in an environment where I could ask people detailed questions about ... finish my last week in Austin relaxed. I'll be back on the 12th from Kansas!