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Blog / MIT Life
Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!
apparently I was erroneous. Maybe it's like the wedding episode of I Dream of ... among men in the 19th century. Mitra usually does not allow me to take pictures of her, so I do not know how I managed to get this one. I thought it -
FAQ / First-year application
How does MIT consider extracurriculars?
realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to ... other countries may not have access to such a diverse range of options ... see what you did with the options available to you no matter where you -
Blog / How to Human
winning embracing positive-sum
because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing ... , and of all the things they could do as a friend to make me feel better ... do in the world and there are a lot of problems to solve, and we win -
Blog / Academics & Research
PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks
A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)
the buildings are numbered, and at first glance, the ordering of the ... and 4. This is one of the small things I love about MIT: its building ... see the magic of this place going away for me. This is the place I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.
Howdy folks. It's freebie time - for the 99.9% of you readers who don ... , "Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We each ... OOOoo! 20.320 Analysis of Biomolecular and Cellular Systems The boring -
Blog / Uncategorized
Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP
World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ... transgender students in the college application process. One of the biggest ... admittedly do not know all of the answers. Thus, I thought I’d be transparent -
Blog / Classes
Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes
="as you may have gathered by the use of past tense so far"] And yet,[/annotation] I’ve decided to drop the class. This decision came after days of ... courses. If you do the math, that’s at least one per semester of the -
Blog / How to MIT
71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack
they set foot on campus. One of these papers is the famous list of "101 ... aware that some of the ones on my list are also on the official list. The vast majority (the remaining handful courtesy of dear friend Ethan M. '20 -
Blog / Academics & Research
1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here
and into the next year. I have a ton of plans to make sure you guys know ... more here. So, one of the classes that I feel I did really enjoy here was 5.111, fundamentals of chemical principles. I think the thing I -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.
. (Thanks Sylvia '14 for the cake!) and a surprising number of uses for ... of the year housing lottery as an absolutely critical, life ... living situation--I was able to move part of the way through the second -
Blog / Academics & Research
Senior Spring a little life update
="very exciting in the age of Zoom"]taught really well![/annotation] I also like ... field, gyroscopic rate of a spacecraft, and the angle of the sun (using ... work internally, but I’d like to find out, which is one of the reasons I -
Blog / How to MIT
loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process
control of my space. I would build my own loft! Luckily, all the material I ... ="attachment_118325" align="aligncenter" width="450"] the initial state of my room (i ... —it's liberating! I was free to decide on the dimensions of my loft, opting for -
Blog / Academics & Research
Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.
's above the healthy limt of "zero." So I figured now would be a good time to ... aspects of academic life. The thing about tests is not really that they're hard. They just kind of suck. You can spend three hours the night before -
Blog / MIT Life
on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious
, although it's a little hard to tell, because the first week of the semester ... 'm chilling -- and this chill, combined with the delightful chill of my IAP (and ... 't. My brain was secretly thinking something along the lines of "oh, well -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks
the language out of respect to the original post."]Two weekends ago ... tape of the movie Hamlet for 2 dollars. I could practically hear my dad ... but today. They have good shakes and the rest of the food is pretty mid -
Blog / Academics & Research
How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today
One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is ... hundred hundred hundred hundred hundred of these doors in the house, and you ... . Closer! EVEN CLOSER! Perfect. This little piece of the rock is made -
Blog / Challenges
mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS
still lingered in the back of my mind. no matter how hard i tried to ... !!! this is the end of the honeymoon phase. cue the fights. cue the ... i know nothing about cooking whatsoever. i've been feeding off of the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.
, some of what ends up being said is tongue-in-cheek, but the implications ... could rise above the tired old notion of coolness and likeability somehow being the inverse of how much work you do on weekends. Frankly, some of
