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Blog / Events
Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art
roast chicken-mashed avocado-jicama sandwich and talking to my sister on ... suit and horns. He stands around for a few seconds, looking like he might ... arms in the air, and yells: "I'm SATAN!" The man at the register looks -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Iām studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why
hours in class analyzing those poems, and written 5000 words on a few dozen verses. Iāve pored over meter and rhythm, imagery and enjambments, em-dashes and alliteration. Why? There is a good argument to be made -
Blog / Class Projects
The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects
semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a ... to create a 3D object, and discover something new about the process ... balloon bowls, where you dip a balloon in melted chocolate and pop the -
Blog / Admissions
Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.
pair of stories about a terrific pair of young women... Chandler '13 and ... sure bet from the beginning. Like many twins, Chandler and Taylor Burfield play the same sports and share the same friends. But unlike most -
Blog / Classes
2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit
homecoming weekends and rivalry football games broadcasted on ESPN. At MIT, though, nothing beats the energy and celebration of the 2.009 Prototype ... , and ridiculous amounts of confetti, this event is a must-see for any MIT -
Blog / Admissions
Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.
live in Philly know that Girls High and Central are practically next door ... better and this was a great way to begin doing so. So that was Monday ... 't already. Yum. Tuesday I woke up and drove to East Brunswick HS in NJ to -
Blog / Classes
reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly
my design and cs majors + uncertainty about post-grad plans ... them really rewarding, with a generally fair amount of assignments, and ... .067: Land Use Law and Politics: Race, Place, and Law This course surveyed US -
Blog / People & Identities
someday fate of friends
ām a lot better adjusted now than I was in high school, and I might have ... some core part of myself they could still easily reach out and touch ... things Iād forgotten and felt a warm surge of familiarity upon recognizing -
Blog / Residential Life
last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything
events for first-year students, followed by acapella auditions and the ... like I was burnt-out before the semester had even started, and it left me ... at 11:59 PM on Saturday, and I was up the next morning at 10:30 AM to -
Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]
Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL
in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who ... , here, and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you are ... yourself. And if you spend the next few years trying to make wherever you are -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far
class. I had done horribly in physics all my life and I knew it was ... Tuesdays and Thursdays from [annotation note="MIT Time. Classes start five minutes later than listed and end five minutes earlier than listed."]1:05 to -
Blog / Challenges
when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…
, cried dozens of times, and partied like the world was endingābecause hey ... . There were parties on Killian Court and in lecture halls; there was music playing at 4 am on Dorm Row and people screaming as they bolted down the -
Blog / Challenges
On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years
me and asked if I was okay.Ā āYouāre always so bubbly but youāre quiet ... someone claimed that most CEOs and/or successful people are extroverts. So ... āt know why. Maybe it stems from insecurity in my intelligence and -
Blog / Admissions
Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again
awhile I do get that itch to come back and write something. And thus I ... about MIT now and then :P So, I'm sitting in NYU's Bobst Library (there ... Washington Sq Park and an entire street of yummy treats (aka. St Marks) nearby