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Blog / How to Human
you can run but you can't hide
realize how much of myself I had given to him, how much he remembered, and ... looked up to me, how frosh would message me and tell me that my blogposts helped them apply to MIT, how they admired my honesty on the blogs. And now -
Blog / Academics & Research
I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show
brothers from Des Moines that went from not knowing how to cook to starting a ... people. But most "reality" TV is fake nowadays and so we want to do something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it -
Blog / Academics & Research
And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate
is just, well, FUN. After spending the semester learning how to use my ... systems? Model conflicts? How do you collect data that you can use to create ... related to photography. I’ve taken plenty of HASS classes in my day, but -
Blog / MISTI
Another year has begun Welcome to my world
love to be in. The summer provides opportunities to learn how to navigate ... It’s amazing sometimes how much life at MIT can seem removed from the ... read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the -
Blog / About Decisions
Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…
I know that it's been a long year, and now that you've had a week to ... , both to those who were admitted and those who were not. From reading your applications, I know how much energy and care you put into them. For -
Blog / Extracurriculars
A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…
. During my time in NROTC, I have learned how to budget my time efficiently ... entire school day. How have I achieved this? It all started with my alarm ... I'm sure they all fell back to sleep. After a quick shave and a few -
Blog / Admissions
EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.
working to submit your application tonight, how is it going? I wish you all ... The postmark/submission deadline for Early Action is tonight! How is ... , buckets upon buckets of pieces of your applications to be opened, sorted -
Blog / Athletics
Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.
how to totally rock at life. Also, she goes to MIT. Correlation implies ... thanks to my prefrosh George for being really independent and finding his way home at 6 AM without my help, to Kristin R for her wonderful (if -
Blog / Academics & Research
We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)
remember, and how fast they can shift from absorbing facts and concepts to ... I'm not quite sure under what category to file this entry, since it ... , "Academics" it is. The MIT Outreach Initiative "seeks to disseminate -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.
as your Athena locker. So Ben sent me a link with info about how to ... looked at my page, but I have no one around to help me make a new banner. It will include a picture of your truly, so you can all see how -
Blog / About Decisions
Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…
, because how the hell should I know? I got in to my first choice school, and ... parents lived in the nicest towns with best schools and who knew how to ... overcome, and how thrilled he was that they were able to afford to come here -
Blog / How to Human
feeling old and coming home
little weird, often quiet, and generally unsure of how to approach other ... places students in schools abroad to teach short courses"]GTL,[/annotation] like so many of my friends had, but my desire to spend time working on my -
Blog / MIT Life
10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would
looked like a whole different person back then. given how much i used to ... have bangers playing at all times, and there's so much space to dance ... from my floor showed up to parties in one screaming orange horde and -
Blog / People & Identities
Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?
your story. ...I often wondered how I could be drawn to Japanese culture ... . In my essay, I describe how I came to embrace Japanese culture after a ... -watched the Netflix show Never Have I Ever. The show, which happens to be the No -
Blog / How to Human
batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for
this is the third IAP i've spent on MIT. trust me, i really tried to get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch of cool things i had applied to (externships, GTL) in order to go hard -
Blog / Academics & Research
The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school
to stay on top of my work.” How I look at it now is “I have made a ... ! How many MIT students does it take to figure out a swing? ... ’ve seen of the archaeology site, I thought it was going to be underwhelming -
Blog / About Decisions
Why I Love MIT And why you should
, opportunities It never ceases to amaze me at how many opportunities there are at ... Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I promise I haven't been trying to avoid blogging... but the last week of IAP -
Blog / Events
I’m still here. Promise.
was awesome. I'm learning how to cook. And the food came out really good ... Whew. It's been awhile. Um...so what I've come to realize is that IAP is supposed to be this easy, carefree "ooh I'm going to take one three -
Blog / About Decisions
why mit
much as a person that it kind of shocks me to look back at how different ... something about how they care (it's cool to care!) about the work they ... pebbles off a beach. they can do that because MIT teaches you how to learn