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Some Funnies An Appetizer
Sorry for the slight gap in entries, this weekend was crazy. I’ve got at least four entries that are in various stages of being writ. I don’t have a whole… -
Blog / MIT Life
Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.
I’ve always been a big eater. Part of this may be because my dad is not only a fire fighter but also because he used to be a cook. For… -
Blog / About Decisions
Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.
any news in your life. This is not required nor is it expected, but if -
Blog / Academics & Research
Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.
you want, learn what you want- it's 4 years of your life and your -
Blog / About Decisions
Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!
life decisions, but I can suggest a couple things to ease the pain. It -
Blog / Academics & Research
I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..
Tomorrow morning I fly back to MIT, and I’m writing to you with absolutely no feeling in the lower left-hand quadrant of my face. It’s as if all the feeling… -
Blog / Admissions
Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11
I was already pumped about MIT going into CPW, so I mainly went to absorb as much as I could, with a goal (just for fun) of finding another prefrosh… -
Blog / Admissions
Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11
As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh during CPW. This is just the first installment. There are many more coming! If you have any… -
Blog / Admissions
CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.
My approximate CPW schedule 6:36am: Alarm clock goes off. SNOOZE. 6:45am: I actually wake up. I look outside and see that the bad weather hasn’t yet arrived. Hmm. 7:35am: Nance… -
Blog / MIT Life
Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.
DID YOU KNOW? When the cartoon “Underdog” was syndicated in the 1980s and 1990s, all scenes that showed Underdog taking his Underdog Super Energy Pill were edited out because censors… -
Blog / How to Human
Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1
Hello, I’m a PC. Hello, I’m a Mac. If you haven’t seen one of these commercials, I really don’t know what to tell you except turn on the TV. But… -
Blog / Academics & Research
This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)
DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland, Maine. What a coincidence that Matt’s entry on thanking parents came on Sam’s Mom’s birthday! Happy birthday, Sam’s… -
Blog / Academics & Research
What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree
(Title above and song below inspired by lyrics from Avenue Q's "What Do You Do with a BA in English?") What do you do with a B.S. in econ? What is my life going to be? Four years of college and plenty of -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.
time!" This struck me as a great encapsulation of a fact of life that -
Blog / Academics & Research
Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…
I want to do for the rest of my life. UROP- MIT Bioinstrumentation -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.
This was the title of an email I sent to Neha ’10 a couple of weeks ago containing, well, pictures of an Amtrak station in the middle o’ nowhere. “Middle… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...
in her life like Piz?) I mean, smashing in the cop car just to get -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…
The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few of its regular denizens (Hi, Nance. You too, Ben.) I was asked why my blog didn’t… -
Blog / About Decisions
More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.
in your life. This is not required nor is it expected, but if anything