FAQ / First-year application
Can I take a gap year?
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Blog / Miscellaneous
Choose my Halloween Costume!
have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up as anything in the past few years, and this is truly sad. So, I need ... leather! I'm not sure I can pull that off!) So...any suggestions? Either -
FAQ / Life and culture
Can I join a fraternity/sorority?
MIT’s Fraternity, Sorority, and Independent Living Groups (FSILGs) include 26 fraternities, 10 sororities, and five living groups. With core principles of leadership, scholarship, and citizenship, the FSILG Office encourages and… -
Blog / Blog Projects
What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry
as us, and I want to represent them, even if only in small ways. (Note ... for censorship boxes.) I've also been interested in how we tell stories ... we wear and the things we use. In high school, I used to joke about how -
Blog / Admissions
The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…
to chuckle. In looking back a year, he references this post, in which I discuss embarking on our new viewbook project. I can't believe it's been an ... final proofs next week - and then it's off to the presses! I can't wait to -
Blog / Classes
day one welcome back
sessions today. In the morning, I realize this means I can sit in whatever other courses I want for the remainder of the day. Today, in artificial ... algebra class was very rigorous, and in an ideal world, I would take it -
Blog / Challenges
How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.
So I was really tired last night. I’d been in northern Michigan ... ridiculous dreams. Like this one dream I had over the summer. I was in Harry Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom -
Blog / Admissions
Waitlist, Etc.
would have said in his entry - please read it. I'll just add that a couple of the people of whom I spoke in this entry were admitted today. I can ... ?" (Hah! The answer is definitely 'no' - elaboration to come.) But I can -
Blog / MIT Life
Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.
memory. Anyway, I learned in high school that excuses are like dirty ... moment in our relationship was the outcome of that spelling bee, although I ... sister before she headed back to college in Baltimore. I value family -
Blog / Academics & Research
Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.
Gregor rooms' size. I consider MacGregor as my first choice in housing lottery ... or RNA, and I can do that using a variety of methods. 3. Danielle asked, Can we install our own window ac in any dorm room on campus? and -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
craze how a blog gets born
black out— there is nothing else in the world I can do I am barely ... I have more than 100 blog ideas saved in a nifty spreadsheet and ... of ideas in another life, I could have been a painter (I -
Blog / Internships & Externships
soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers
's people who've been in the industry for decades now. I can't imagine that ... is a respectable want. CJ: But isn't it true that I can find that in ... 've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how -
Blog / Challenges
What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer
, and that means something - unfortunately, I can't go back in time and ... surprisingly, I actually had possessed a large amount of this knowledge in high ... evacuated my brain. Every question I missed in Protobowling with Paolo was a -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play
, where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only ... that dream. I would continue the simulation in my mind until I fell -
Blog / Life after MIT
Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)
(and can still find) in these pages. Now that I have seen so many more ... you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a -
Blog / MIT Life
Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.
In times of economic crisis, Random Hall perseveres in upholding the ... decreased in a geometric series. It is predicted that Paul would have finished ... “too hosed” with homework to participate in the social event, eventually -
Blog / Life after MIT
i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing
="attachment_83349" align="aligncenter" width="300"] in case i get a new avatar, i ... in the in-betweenness of young adulthood. As we drove away, I felt ... visit every once in a while—you know, to catch up with the people I hold -
Blog / Miscellaneous
thank you notes before i go
're actually in your presence, words unfortunately can't do it justice. But being around you really does feel as though I've been transported in some manic ... -eye you when you play a video in a library without any headphones in, but I -
Blog / CPW
I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*
filled with all kinds of MIT students in the line up! I think I can speak ... in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... convinced I could never fit in. I wanted to shake your hands, give you hugs -
Blog / MIT Life
A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts
MIT in Barcelona, Spain. Several friends and I planned this spring break ... B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at ... and rest in our dorms, hopefully with forays into Boston for food (I did