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Blog / Academics & Research
Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s
came within ~4 cm of the back of my phone, whether the card was face up ... on Thursday I had an exam in 8.02 (Physics II E&M), and I woke up ... .06 (Linear Algebra) after staying up most of the night studying for it -
Blog / Blog Projects
Why I’m Leaving the MIT Admissions Blogs it's been a good run.
post I could come up with. Credit where credit's due, the idea for this -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything
the eye and put down electronics when we talk, to go to bed and get up ... disappear in college, but they’re up to you and the people around you to keep ... . Valentine’s Day was awesome. Boston has been snowing sideways and up. Over the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester
soft, and just forces you to shut up for a minute. I’ll sometimes just ... AP’s coming up OMG) I’d encourage you to all press pause for a weekend ... ’ve caught up with old friends from home and made really good bonds with new -
Blog / Athletics
Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs
practice and every game (sound has this really funny way of traveling up to ... up blogging about it. MIT just won its first playoff game in overtime ... up some sportsball support! 2) Lil B A couple weeks ago, there was an -
Blog / MIT Life
Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.
super worried about adjusting to classes and being able to keep up with ... 've been up till 3 AM in the Hayden Library (an awesome place to study, by ... Stata Center. I definitely need to up the contrast a bit for the next -
Blog / MIT Life
The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush
and/or answer an email! For starters, MacGregor is divided up into 9 ... that ended up in MacGregor meets in the dining hall at around 7pm and get split up randomly into 10 different groups. Then, current students will -
Blog / Life after MIT
Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat
about it. In a single day, I had a base coat up, went shopping for paint ... coming. I’d psychologically built up that moment as the moment I would ... on […] you’ll find your heart will be with the people who stayed up -
Blog / Athletics
Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes
we met up with the team! Meeting one of the captains of the team ... sailing, stand up paddleboarding, and windsurfing. So last week, we took ... weekend, we signed up for a canoeing trip and picnic lunch along the Charles -
Blog / Personal Travel
Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...
second (and last; it was a short trip) day, we spent the morning walking up ... advertised selling "worms and crawlers"): We hiked up to the summit of Mount ... graduation week. I picked up my regalia (cap and gown) from the Coop yesterday -
Blog / MIT Life
What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar
it's a good time to stock up on cheap games! The Boston Festival of -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
SpringFest 2014! Just a quick post about the 2014 SpringFest Concert featuring Capital Cities and Flosstradamus!
concert was great, the set-up was beautiful, and SpringFest was a success :) -
Blog / MIT Life
AMA Ask Me Anything.
advanced fiction workshop with Junot Díaz). When I grow up I want to write -
Blog / Community Projects
We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.
picked up right before touchdown, and the plane flipped over and shredded ... first mission and bump our score up to 8 or maybe even 9 laps. Given our ... made of insulation foam and laid up with carbon fiber and fiberglass -
Blog / Community Projects
No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog
loaded up suitcases and headed off to the competition site, while the other ... feet square to set up shop. While we unpacked all our suitcases and ... watched nervously to see if our landing gear was up for the job. Corn -
Blog / About Decisions
Just Desserts No metaphors here...
treat that you could ever dream up was in this case, but one item ... are going to end up getting a slice of that beautiful pie and taste ... for some pie? (My victory/curl up into a puddle underneath a blanket -
Blog / About Decisions
Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...
decided to set up a calling system where if either of us got accepted, we ... set up something like this if you have close friends who also applied to ... days leading up to Pi Day. Frantically checking CollegeConfidential is -
Blog / IAP
I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.
up to: (1) 2.670 (Mechanical Engineering Tools) A class! But ... up Mt. Jackson; this week I'm hiking up Mt. Moriah and Mt. Surprise on ... on developing these skills, and get broken up into teams that give -
Blog / About Decisions
Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?
fridge, stare around, pick up a tomato, laugh hard, put the tomato back ... , taking a seat. We spoke about random things. Time really did speed up in those last three hours. My heart had settled, but it picked up again with