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dormspam-the-game (Part 3)
You might have read Kathleen’s earlier blog posts (one, two) about a little thing called dormspam-the-game, an MIT-wide competition with 452 different players across all of campus. This competition had...
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Rekindling
For most of my life before coming to MIT, I had been really into drawing all sorts of things.02 there was a lot of… naruto though I had sketchbooks full of Digimon I’d made up when I was 8, and...
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Favorite Classes at MIT!
Right before school started, I sent out a survey to all the dorms asking what people’s favorite classes were. I received 130 responses listing 205 classes and why they loved that specific class. Here...
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oh, the places you’ll go
In my freshman year of high school, my favorite teacher that year had a quote that sat right above his whiteboard, visible at every place in the classroom. It read “I am large. I contain multitudes.”...
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People always told me sophomore fall is the worst semester you’ll experience at MIT. This summer, a few of my upperclassmen friends warned me about not succumbing to stress as the semester gets...
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being present
This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in college I’m finally taking steps to beat procrastination and do things early and within a reasonable time frame. The plan was simple –...
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Ridiculous things I’ve been up to
I’m currently dealing with writer’s block, to be honest, and I’ve been blocked on finishing some post ideas for several weeks now. So instead, let me talk about some of the things I’ve been doing in...
View Articleoh, the places you’ll go (reprise)
(This is part 2 of my oh, the places you’ll go blogpost because they really were all written in one document but it didn’t make sense for them to be in the same post since they had different tones kind...
View ArticleMy Rejection Resume
About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a post comparing applying to college to applying to jobs. It’s job recruiting season again, but this year, I escaped from the cycle by...
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the classes among us
Personally, I have always found it ironic how universities tout their student: faculty ratio. For freshmen and prospective students, how significant is this number? Does a ratio of 5:1 mean a lot when...
View ArticleThere is still no magic formula
My entire professional life has revolved around education and college admissions. Even though I have observed many changes, including the transition from an entirely paper-based process (featuring...
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What a Robotics Career Looks Like
This was originally posted on my personal Medium blog @selamjie, but I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may still be in high school and interested in robotics. Now that...
View Articlesocializing safely
here’s the thing: most of my MIT friends are currently in the Cambridge area. however, even if there wasn’t a pandemic, I wouldn’t be able to meet up with all of them since I’m hosed all the time....
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sundays in the parks with friends
There’s a large park system in Boston called the The Emerald Necklace which stretches seven miles from the Boston Common all the way down to Franklin Park Zoo. Before this semester, I’d only been to...
View ArticleDigging through old bookmarks
While I’m working on a longer post, I wanted to write a quick post and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It’s a window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to...
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A Running Journey
Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I decided that I would absolutely lose my mind staying inside all the...
View Articlepreserving student community
If you’ve read any of my other posts, you probably know how much I care about my dorm and floor communities. I’ve talked about my experiences on the Burton Conner Transition Team, which is responsible...
View ArticleA reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT
I’m writing today to remind our applicants that we do not give any kind of preferential “bump” to students who apply to MIT during Early Action. This is a longstanding policy. There is no reason to...
View ArticleDays in lives that aren’t mine
I wake up at 9 AM, and it’s the first time in a while that I’ve been awake this early. Of the four people I’m sharing a room with, I’m the first one to wake up. I curse the morning air for being too...
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One Art
The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster. Waste hours for fun, while still knowing that after, one still...
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