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Blog / Extracurriculars
Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.
called the Leadership Training Institute (LTI). In high school, I was involved in a similar leadership program. What I appreciated the most was the ... giving. Anne >> It's true. Of all the leadership roles I took in -
Blog / How to Human
mit made me rational on decision-making
dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... I can do in my lifetime is worth ten billion dollars, but I care about ... morally wrong choice. But how can anyone truly blame him for it? Back in -
Blog / Events
Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade
in person. I don't remember exactly how I stumbled upon him, but I just ... "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already ... am utterly in awe of everything he does. When I read Jonny Sun's name -
Blog / IAP
H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…
this deathly level in Little Big Planet! I visited my high school AS AN ... about Python since I feel I can always develop my Course 6 skills. Plus ... eating or doing laundry or blogging (sorry about that). But I'm back -
Blog / MIT Life
“Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans
the following announcement: I originally became a AAS member in order ... provide valuable access to new opportunities. In this case, I realized that ... Massachusetts resident and I divided up the labor so that I'm in charge of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…
petro-diesel to create a blended fuel that can be used in MIT’s ... sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... ,000 in the GE / mtvU Ecocollege Challenge (www -
Blog / MIT Life
Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did
the original pictures. I panicked. Every picture in every entry was ... bed early tonight. Things I'd like to blog about in the future? - Toy ... I'm not sure anybody has mentioned her, so allow me. Everybody, meet -
Blog / MIT Life
frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything
with keeping myself alive. Can you believe that? I have to remember to ... water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the ... become deeply confuzzled as it suddenly hits me that i’m actually in -
Blog / Events
A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.
?); by 'MIT', I mean my friend Michele and a few of her cohorts in the ... pretty cool program to consider when in high school; although I wouldn ... this: Class 1: Beat Me at Kirby's Avalanche! In high school, I used the -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.
diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio mid-reviews sat three feet in front of me and I can already tell they ... I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string -
Blog / Events
BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…
the dorms[/caption] A few days later, I decided to buy pre-made red ... . The morning of, Anoushka and I got to work in the kitchen, but waiting ... some magic, and eventually we had the cookies in the oven. I rushed over -
Blog / Summer
bay area parties well, two of them
in the last two weeks, i've been invited to two parties in the bay ... , sure. more variance in age, with what i'm pretty sure were prefrosh and ... was what people talked about. the conversations i had in this "sf party -
Blog / MIT Life
A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.
morning, I felt a faint red soreness on my uvula, which can only mean that I'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the -
Blog / How to MIT
Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.
athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the ... , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In ... - like when I want to go injure myself playing Frisbee in NH - that having -
Blog / Admissions
CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.
) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read these blogs!). Back to the help desk for most of the afternoon. At 5PM, I ... 6 a cappella groups. In true MIT spirit it got hacked (see pic below -
Blog / Academics & Research
it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day
everything which occurs, in the style of posts by Shuli and Cami before me. I ... acknowledge it. Instead of getting up, I lie in bed, check my email, and read ... "getting to class exactly on time" down to a science; I can afford to waste a -
Blog / Challenges
you can care about things revisiting stoicism
choice that i think is obviously wrong?” in other words, most of my ... . i don’t think recruiters are actually emotionally invested in ... ensuring you have no say in your friend’s decisions (i think the stoic -
Blog / Advice
We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you
We are in our senior year of college [annotation note ... year of high school. In high school, we stayed up extra hours to apply ... extra hours to apply to that extra internship and that extra job. In high -
Blog / Athletics
Lax bros and their workflows
. Sydney: I started playing lacrosse when I was in fifth grade and have been playing ever since. I didn’t always know I wanted to play in college, but when the recruiting process began, I quickly fell in love with the idea