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Blog / Admissions
Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.
with four potential PhD advisors... and eating a lot of free food (and ... of my life (aka lab), things are going spectacularly. I developed a couple of really pretty Western blots, and my postdoc thinks we'll be ready -
Blog / Admissions
The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.
Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is posted here. For me, Educational Counselors or ECs are a special group of -
Blog / Athletics
Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)
the bridge in flip-flops. For those of you who were not at MIT last ... had a very nice view of the Esplanade while running. Here, some of ... runners stuck around for awards, so Sam got one of the prizes. Have fun with -
Blog / Challenges
Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.
I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long periods of time and then come back mysteriously with scratches on my face and the arm of my coat ripped three-quarters of the way off. I always -
Blog / Challenges
Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit
trailers are right in front of Medical, and the line went in front of and ... long all day. Maybe it's because the tests of the five thousand or so ... , where they scan my ID, ask me for my last name, my date of birth, my phone -
Blog / MIT Life
sticker stories adorned on my water bottles
slipped out of my backpack on the plane...silly me. I checked my location ... there. Unfortunately, I have no intentionally-taken photos of it, but I did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the -
Blog / MIT Life
(Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…
flurry of many things, but second most importantly, it’s been a flurry of ... ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... 12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very -
FAQ / First-year application
What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?
We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly ... of recommendation from different academic areas of study, we understand ... of recommendation. In some cases, you may ask a teacher who you -
Blog / Uncategorized
dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination
vanish from my todo-list i’m getting tired of fourier transforms these ... the mud so concerned about right and wrong The giver of permission ... the echoes murmur louder Get up and fight me Are you afraid of your own -
Blog / Residential Life
four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales
to [annotation note="what sounds like an incredibly draining week of ... and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to ... Charles River on the north and the glittery high rises of Back Bay Boston on -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers
="aligncenter" width="507"] specifically from the tree in front of Walker Memorial ... ![/caption] text for accessibility: yellow aspen leaves the liminality of public ... rides This iteration of "things that are golden" was inspired by -
Blog / Advice
Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant
makes sense, given my role. Many of those requests, understandably, come ... from the college process. While the specifics of each situation varies, the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
[joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.
of six sestets, having the same six end words in each of the stanzas, but in a different order. The poem ends with a tercet which has two of ... have started gradually converting the rest of 4W to the cult of poetry -
Blog / MIT Life
Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?
Campus that I spend a lot of time on. As a honorary frosh there, I ... ), but also personalized lists for each participant. Some of my items ... ) putting on ALL of my beanies, which is a lot of beanies if anyone asks -
Blog / MIT Life
what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored
ever see one of those social media #inspo posts featuring an ... containing a draft of [annotation note = "I meant to revise this throughout the ... [/annotation] printouts of my 18.200A (Discrete Mathematics) lecture notes The -
Blog / Hacks
“futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?
small strip of grass between Walker Memorial and Building 14. It was called Futurity Island: essentially, a very very tall honeycomb stack of ... that the pipes (a "symbol of the Anthropocene") are drawing our attention -
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Be a Blogger 2019!
good people of Boston Spinjam are meeting on Mondays on Killian Court right outside my office for some spinspiration It's time for those of ... of MIT students are MIT students. Admissions officers can write about