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Officer and Director of the Educational Council, has become my new bearded
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Blog / Miscellaneous
And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.
the only remaining wookie. I must go now and weep gently. May my beard -
Blog / Events
How about an eπ Reunion?
In my email this morning: Hello fellow Young Alums! As you may or ... Reunion in Miami, or my class's pi Reunion in Las Vegas. The pi Reunion was ... with a huge smile on my face. The reunion also included a gala dinner -
Blog / Academics & Research
Theory of Actual Reality
I'm back in Boston now with five Central Meetings under my belt: Long ... . Today's music was "Seasons of Love" from RENT, one of my all-time favorite ... transported back to my days as an MIT freshmen: the excitement I felt learning -
Blog / Admissions
Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.
on your side. Then again, I do feel my critical reading score was a factor in my deferral from EA, so yes, I think writing could and should be ... added to my folder after my application has been read for regular -
Blog / Challenges
Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience
where I feel like a lot of my STEM background amounted to nothing, since it holds little relevance to my prospective major. computer science ... also up there in my interests but I didn't want to work with organic -
Blog / Extracurriculars
the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do
One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do in my freshman year that I did not do was join clubs, specifically -
Blog / Miscellaneous
[Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing
this is a guest blog post from my dear friend aidan chambers '23 who ... some context before I begin my inane rambling. For anyone who doesn ... sponsor me). I’d used the app in the past to learn Italian and to refresh my -
Blog / Personal Travel
i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours
’t seen most of the United States. My cousin’s getting married on June 30th ... Santa Clara, from June 26th to 29th. Here’s (most of) my planned route, in ... my friends predicted I would ditch the whole idea by Denver and opt to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Hosed life the last few weeks
a firehose. Here's a quick look at my calendar and a recap of the ... since the end of first semester. After my last final, 18.02/Multivariable ... monuments. I got sick with a sinus infection and decided to cancel my trip to -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.
promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... Tool was REALLY fun, and even though I can't sing to save my life, I ... . So, of course, my friend managed to persuade me to print some sheet -
Blog / Events
Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.
So my schedule at work is pretty sweet. I work slightly long days all ... was as good a time as any to have my first Boston Pops experience. I, unfortunately, did not take my camera, so you'll have to rely solely on my -
Blog / MIT Life
Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.
possibly a paper between me and graduation. Not to mention that my grad ... to not care at all for one time in my life? In reality, I may very well get my first 5.0 at MIT, because I'm not as good at slacking off as I -
Blog / Athletics
Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.
exciting. My parents drove up from Harrisburg to watch me. My friends painted their chests to read GO SAM! I ran it with Mitra, my best friend from college and probably my best friend from MIT to this day. We got our picture -
Blog / Academics & Research
Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.
write the much anticipated UROP explanation thing. In my three years at ... might have supposed, based on my infatuation with remote controlled (r/c) airplanes, both of my UROPs center around the development of unmanned aerial -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all
) How did you start dancing? I honestly can’t remember a time in my life ... my energy and excitement into a cohesive format, so I would pretty much ... ). Learning these dances became my favorite hobby, and eventually, I started -
Blog / Admissions
Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.
one of these entries takes up a good deal of time, so I'm sorry that my ... : Anon1 wrote, "Does MIT accept rush SAT reports, if I rushed my report ... , "my 11th grade grades arent good...however 12th is ok..and no olympiads -
Blog / Academics & Research
Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside
luckily I’d had my own disaster-semester in the spring, and we compared ... you my grades, and tell you what went down behind the letter. It’s gonna be great. Come and be liberated! SPRING 2020 My Spring 2020 -
Blog / How to MIT
Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.
your guesstimate is wrong. Every month up until my last semester, I was given a monthly allowance from my parents that was plenty for groceries ... something to use it on." My internet history was full of amazon doodads, my -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…
scarf wrapped tightly around my ears, listening to an audiobook or music or the whistling of the city. My destination, Brookline Arts Center ... , spinning. After class, I’d change out of my clay-crusted clothes, crack