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10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine
, my life, my career, and appreciate each and every moment we had here -
Blog / Advice
You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues
after the fact; wherever they are going in life. Just ignore it ... life helped a lot. I guess it helps that as a freshman in a school that -
Blog / Classes
Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world
27,960 miles flown. $0 spent (by me). How? Through purely anecdotal research, I have ascertained that MIT has one of the best global programs of any college that I’ve ever… -
Blog / Blog Projects
Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers
I hope you like what we’ve done with the place. Seven years ago, I welcomed people to the “new” MITAdmissions.org, the one you would have seen had you come here… -
Blog / MISTI
Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior
Emmanuel A. ‘18 is a member of my own class year (as is Pelkins A ‘18, who I covered last week) and therefore someone I’ve interacted with a lot while… -
Blog / Personal Travel
Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.
, I drank the biggest cup of coffee I have ever seen in my life. I ... the best noodles I’ve ever had in my life. It was this little hole in -
Blog / Academics & Research
My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.
experienced the coldest temperatures of my entire life. I am definitely not in ... Boston, or the surrounding neighborhoods, into your academic part of life -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!
you touch an asteroid, however, lose a life. When you lose all your ... 's life. Revive is a portable AED that's surprisingly small, which means you -
Blog / Academics & Research
Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms
It’s been a stressful last few weeks. The weekend before Thanksgiving, though, was another one of those IHTFP, !!! IHTFP !!!, weeks. The same day I left for the 2017 Eastern Sectional… -
Blog / MIT Life
A Night Off Campus and some dancing
6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms) and I have an interesting relationship this semester, one that’s partly tortured, and partly beautifully soul-consuming. Still, on October 10 at 6pm, I can… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?
jobs and summer and what I want to do with my life was the last thing on ... to procrastinate on psets, exams, and life. I switched up the fonts -
Blog / Academics & Research
Mexico things my MISTI experience
life advice, if you think you're barred from an opportunity because you ... pretty big deal!" Interestingly, she lived all of her life in the US up -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist
This week was a four-day week, which made it extremely weird. It seemed to be a consensus among a bunch of people I talked to that this was a bummer… -
Blog / MIT Life
Talking to Strangers
“Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I… -
Blog / Academics & Research
So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious
prepares them best for the next step in life. Sometimes people don't even ... , this terrifying next step in life is still around 2 years away. I still -
Blog / IAP
IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian
IAP 2013 was a logistical (and medical) nightmare but a fantastic adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to London for winter break,… -
Blog / Study Abroad
Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens
at 7 am... but it was a pretty boring month of my life. We tried to ... people can separate work and life a little better. PLUS people actually -
Blog / Admissions
Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again
up at 5 AM, the life story or experience that sets you apart from ... talk about what your life is like and what things you are interested -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
My first music festival It was muddy.
Have you ever had your car pulled out of a parking lot muddy field by a tractor? (For reference, this is what I mean by muddy: ) It’s kind of…