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Blog / Athletics
The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.
field (Harvard won, 45-7). This year was no exception: See if you can -
Blog / Travel
clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late
In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have procrastinated a little bit. In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on -
Blog / Admissions
International students @ MIT (+life updates) Just a hodge-podge of shtuff.
1. Watch this first: &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; 2. Watch this second: <br /> (Not much text today, because that is my cheap way of making you guys watch my videos instead!) -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Happy New Year! And so two thousand nine begins...
Happy new year everyone! I’m hanging out at my sister and brother-in-law’s new house, enjoying the snow and festivities. (By the way, for those who always seem surprised when they… -
Blog / Events
Fireworks over MIT’s Great Dome Fireworks and music and Dome, oh my.
As I noted two entries ago, MIT has a front row seat for Boston’s 4th of July celebration — one of the biggest and best fireworks shows around. And now,… -
Blog / Personal Travel
Spring Break! A little guessing game.
At approximately 9.30 pm on Thursday night, Spring Break will begin. I leave for (blank) on Saturday. Anyone want to guess where I'm going? Hint #1: It's not the Pappalardo Lab. (although if I were staying at MIT -
Blog / MIT Life
Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving!
So I’m about to cook a turkey for the first time in my life, but before I foray out into the world of basting and boiling, I wanted to wish… -
Blog / Admissions
The swing of things MIT happenings.
abroad or take internships in a foreign country. I might be getting an ... (chairs, the floor, the walls), different ways to sit or stand or walk, and ... to MIT. I was just wondering, 1) how difficult is the application -
Blog / Admissions
Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…
# of AP's for admitted kids was 5 or 6 (that's total for all 4 years of HS - i.e. 1-2 per year if evenly distributed). Many admits (most likely ... road, kids asked me repeatedly whether or not they should take a given AP -
Blog / MIT Life
Temp assignments and cautionary tales
assignment, most dorms have an In-House Rush where you choose a hall or entry or whatever your dorm of choice has. And then, after that, there ... students and administrators as to the purpose and importance (or the name -
Blog / Academics & Research
Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!
get into or attend MIT. I like technology, but I am quite happily ... , Indian, or Thai food before I got to MIT. (Come to MIT! Expand your ... gratification, as you might imagine. Either that, or we're just masochists.) Zoo -
Blog / MIT Life
MIT TechTV: Incredible videos from the MIT community YouTube has nothing on us.
… I swear you’ll enjoy them! Grand Prizewinners 1st Place: Godel Escher ... (in Origami) Vol. 1 — (Does Brian look familiar? That’s because I -
Blog / MIT Life
Amsterdesk Time is on my side, it's on my side now.
... but it turns out that tonight, 2 AM is really 1 AM again (blast you ... and leave the desk unattended at 1 AM? Just close up at 1:58 and avoid -
Blog / Classes
18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!
expected to 1) learn hard material, 2) learn how to prove hard material, and ... who want to learn everything at the difficult abstract level, or those ... . Suppose I want to go from the corner on 1st and 42nd to the corner on 2nd -
Blog / Uncategorized
hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses
class or gotten distracted by Tetazoo tea time. At one point, Jebby tried ... seemed a weird and out of character, or at least been uninteresting. Out of ... found a mama cat and three babies the next morning[carousel image1 -
Blog / Academics & Research
The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research
publishable research in high school was a thing) actually is through course 1 in ... have me on board with no coding ability or past experience!. The ... three new things each time I go to research before or after class. I am -
Blog / Academics & Research
back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o
much time with my friends as possible before 1) we get too busy for each other and/or 2) we graduate. lots of puzzle hunts and concerts lined up ... structured than they did when i lived in EC or senior haus. i've also had to -
Blog / Admissions
MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it
Gregor House MacGregor House is the West Campus dorm between Burton Conner (or ... rest cook for themselves in our suite kitchens (or more realistically pay -
Blog / How to Human
So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?
you're a freshman or not, I hope this is useful. Have informed imagination. There are two parts to this: (1) being technically excellent and (2 ... instilling the basic concepts of fluid mechanics, molecular biology, or