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Blog / Life after MIT
Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.
than up the river, and of course I still actually live on MIT's campus ... things this winter that I did last winter: going to class, reading lots of papers, mixing small volumes of colorless liquids in the lab -- the -
Blog / Miscellaneous
You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West
world just because of the head start we have in terms of technology and ... unironically, wholeheartedly believe that Kanye West is one of the greatest artists of all-time, not just for his incredible lyricism, production, and -
Blog / How to Human
play dough
Wellness Coordinator in New Vassar offered us a variety of stress toys to get ... I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... things are out of place, which is funny because to the average viewer, my -
Blog / Personal Travel
Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT
After a stressful week of essays after essays, assignments after ... from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is ... ’t make an effort to travel. But every time I managed to drag myself out of -
Blog / Summer
a year of counting fish the shape of real work
that simulation can give you a better idea of how plasma behaves in a fusion reactor. Then, of course, you build the perfect fusion reactor and ... good at theoretical plasma physics you have to know a lot of things that -
Blog / IAP
GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget
"]GTL[/annotation] started with the warmest welcomes. On the very first day of the program, I walked through the front entrance of the Shoqan School and was serenaded by ... arrival of me and Colin, a PhD student also teaching at Shoqan. We went -
Blog / CPW
the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman
It so happened that my younger sister got accepted into the Class of ... ] I committed to MIT a couple of weeks ago, so my main goal at CPW was ... variety of events at each dorm was completely overwhelming, so I started -
Blog / Events
The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...
in a dorm because of the different community that it offers from my ... dorm. I joined a fraternity, but I live at iHouse, a specialized dorm of ... that live in a small dorm but is part of a fraternity, so I don't know -
Blog / Miscellaneous
hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses
[/caption] technological issues For most of the past few months, my 10-year old ipad that I ... of the way by taking two CI-Ms (communication intensive class in the ... it got unusable. Every time I took it out of my bag to try and draw, I -
Blog / MISTI
quiet moments out in the rural English countryside
parish of st ives. it’s a town that’s around 10 miles outside of Cambridge ... located). in fact, it’s so small that it usually appears on the 2nd page of ... ’m doing a [annotation note='mit international science and technology -
Blog / Classes
8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics
One of my most favorite classes I've ever taken this semester is 8.021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I took a special version of 8.02 known as 8.021, specifically designed for -
Blog / How to Human
FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring
Fear Of Missing Out or FOMO. I think that's the best way to describe ... of goals for this semester: Be less lazy. Yes, it's freezing cold ... a lot of work that was half done but due later that day. The buses -
Blog / Academics & Research
Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.
, train them on the use of the technology, and collect data on each and ... MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ... or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel -
Blog / MIT Life
nice moments on campus things are okay, actually
really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare ... people"]75 degrees,[/annotation] so I took the opportunity to spend the majority of it outside. My friends and I biked to Newbury street in Boston to -
Blog / How to Human
defining the future stop being vague
most of all, we want it beautiful. VC-talk is speckled with grandiose ... to the linearity of time, hence this preoccupation with the future: the only chunk of our existence that has not yet been determined for us. I -
Blog / IAP
I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.
point is, of course, that the longer you’re away from something the more ... degrees), after a week or so I found myself missing the little things about MIT. The bipolar weather. The strange architecture. The random middle-of -
Blog / How to Human
Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.
So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San ... by volumes of different people at all hours of the day. What can I say ... you think of the brand-new stubble, courtesy of No Shave November. That -
Blog / MIT Life
What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.
relationship between three floors--Conner 2, Conner 3, and Conner 5. I think of ... 's degree but still lives nearby, so she bakes you fresh cookies every once in ... 80% of Burton-Conner deskworkers are from Conner 3, so you can usually -
Blog / Academics & Research
Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)
Below is one of the robots I built for 2.007, MIT's extremely popular ... "robot" I ever built, on the first day of 2.007: Before I took 2.007, I ... , I was comfortable with all of these tools, thanks in large part to the