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the journey to PLAYsentations
There's a paragraph in Steve Job's biography where famed Apple industrial designer Jony Ive discusses how his father influenced his early interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day...
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Summer begins
During my first pass through the Logan Airport security line, I was wearing my purple MIT Splash t-shirt. TSA Agent: Why does your shirt say "Splash" on it? What is "Splash"? Me: "Splash" is a...
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Movie Marathon, Pt. I
Ah, readers, we meet again. I'm sorry it's been a while. Much as changed since our last exchange (the way I begin blog posts has obviously not. Oops.) - I finished my last MIT classes, I ate my last...
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DNA and How to Extract It
This past March, a few days after my birthday, I spent a Saturday teaching three iterations of a three-hour-long class called Hands-on Introduction to DNA! to seventh through ninth graders at Spark, a...
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4 Years
The first time I had a conversation with Archit Bhise I'm pretty sure he asked me one of those deep questions that help gage what kind of a mindset you have. It was something really general, along the...
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How MIT students are trying to change education
It’s summertime @ MIT! I'm relaxing at home after graduating last week (more on that soon) and am here to spotlight an incredible project a few of my friends are participating in - Spokes: Biking...
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New York City
I started obsessively checking the news sometime in middle school. I pored over whatever I could find, usually defaulting to MSNBC or CNN to educate myself about anything that might be relevant to my...
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Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much easier said than done. I woke up (well, my mom woke me up) at around 7am, for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on...
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As promised, I finished my post about deciding what to do this summer. Disclaimer that I haven't slept in 22 hours. - Last summer, a life plan took shape: get a master's in Science Writing from MIT...
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Farewell
For a few weeks now, I’ve been thinking of writing this “goodbye” entry, but I kept getting stuck. I wanted to write something profound, something that would capture the intensity, the awesomeness,...
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All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)
[Disclaimer: Not my last post! I've still got one more in me after this one. :)] The other day I was hanging out with one of my best friends from high school when we got into a heated argument about...
View ArticleTchau! Labs vai para a praia!
* This is a Goodbye Post * I've always liked the 4th of July. I like fireworks. (Although a couple years ago I had a friend that kind of ruined it for me by pointing out that fireworks are a...
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“All Aboard the Rage Bus”
I’m very lucky in that my family lives in central Pennsylvania, which is only eight to twelve hours from Boston through New York City depending on traffic and wait time between connecting busses. I...
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Independence Day Fireworks in Boston
Yesterday for Independence Day I was a hobbit. Cory R. ‘14 and I went out to the deli to get turkey meat and an exciting new cheese, garlic cheddar, which turned out overwhelming but delicious and...
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Coworker Shenanigans
Today, I walked into my office (cup of iced tea in hand), logged onto my computer, took one look at my Desktop background, and screamed "WHAT IN THE HELL?" Giggles floated across the hall from the...
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A Postcard From The Green Building
Yesterday I took photos from the top of the Green Building. MIT sprawled far below us, the lines of its normally inscrutable architecture recognizable for once as the Hacker's Map. Even Stata finally...
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Disco balls in space
One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers." I had previously listened to a grand total of Zero alternative country music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last...
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Unpacking Surprises
Architecture seniors at graduation and awesome USB wristbands from the department It’s been exactly one month since commencement, and I don’t think “being an alum” will hit me until it’s the first...
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Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Forest
Shenandoah National Park houses 200,000 acres of forests, rocky outcrops, meadows, stunning outlooks, and dramatic waterfalls - so, we weren't about to settle for an official camping site. We parked...
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“There is No Place Like Home”
This is the time of year where goodbye posts are pretty common on these blogs. While I am not leaving the Admissions Office I too have a goodbye post to share with you… When I was an undergraduate at...
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