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All Hallow’s Eve
Happy (belated) Halloween! Although I guess it's November now but let's ignore that. This is gonna be a quick post mainly because I half-promised pictures of my friends and I being all dorky and...
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Becoming a Princess
You see, the thing about Halloween is that it gives you a reason to act like you're in elementary school again. You wanna become Doctor Who? Go ahead. You wanna go to class as a princess? No problem....
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Stop and Smell the Seasons
The leaves are falling like snowflakes and sometimes when the sun hits the trees just right, the Massachusetts landscape burns golden. The fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous...
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A Battle Scene to Remember
This semester has definitely been a rough one, especially around this time of the year. Flags for classes are being handed out for those of us who are struggling extraordinarily well, and some of us...
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Slam Dunked
My high school academic life was by no means a cruise through pleasant waters. It had its several current peaks and rocky outbursts, challenges I found myself learning to deal with as time fled. I was...
View ArticleE-mails in French House
To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our kitchen, there is a "sacrificial table" - "sac tab" for short....
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Toons and Tasty Burgers
11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I'm sitting in a cozy joint titled "Tasty Burger" with Hairuo, Royal, and Trevor. (They're cool.) > Hairuo, Royal, and Trevor are telling me I should...
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Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800
MIT's HASS requirement means that, on average, every student needs to take one humanities, arts, or social sciences class per semester. The requirement addresses depth (each student must fulfill a...
View ArticleSpontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want
Over one weekend in the fall (Splash!) and one weekend in the spring (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at...
View ArticleMissing Documents Deadline
Hi all- This is a quick update for our Early Action applicants. As of tonight, we have finished processing all mail and loaded everything into our system. If you have applied to us Early Action,...
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Fashion Design at MIT
Fashion is, evidently, alive and thriving at MIT (we're not just a bunch of nerds who always wear hoodies and jeans!). Tonight, Kappa Alpha Theta hosted their annual fashion show, Katwalk, featuring...
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Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft*
In spaceflight, “attitude” refers to orientation: which direction your vehicle is pointing relative to the Sun, Earth, and other reference points. If you lose control of your attitude, two things...
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Discovering Product Design through Photography
Although this blog probably would've been more appropriately posted at the beginning of the year, I think the photographs that our freshmen took deserve to be shared with the blogosphere! Discover...
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This Isn’t Goodbye
“This isn’t goodbye, this is see you later!” I told my family as they left that Monday, August 26 from Parents Orientation. It was true. Family Weekend was only at the end of October, a mere 59 days,...
View ArticleSome virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats
From a combination of Being enrolled in a music class this semester Having musically-inclined friends (and a relative) at MIT Having the great fortune to be an MIT Arts Scholar I attended four...
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A…an…uh…a cappella concert?
A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type. It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church" (thanks, Wikipedia) - but it's two words. Which means that...
View ArticleSoldering Things
This weekend marks the notable milestone where, for the first time in my life, I get to actually do cool engineering-y things with my actual hands for a research job. I have a UROP (Undergraduate...
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How to have dinner with your Professor
Organic Chemistry is notoriously hard. But what isn't hard is having dinner with your organic chemistry professor-- which can be sponsored by MIT's Undergraduate Association! "WAIT FREE FOOD?" That's...
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Feeling Good
I’m in my room, clacking away on my laptop, my fingers slowly defrosting, bits of ice forced into my intestines (by Cambridge’s spooky weather) slowly melting, and I feel pretty good. It’s been a...
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Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded.
Splash stats: 2670 High School students 517 teachers* 701 classes, 956 sessions** 1330 hours of classes *mostly MIT undergraduates **you can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours...
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