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Roller Coasters and Dance Parties
This past Sunday was the East Side party, where the denizens of the East Side and prefrosh (now frosh!?!?) from all around MIT came to see the fantastic roller coaster and fort for themselves....
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Trendy Reif Strikes Again
University presidents are the black suit-wearing overseers who sit at the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with looks of disapproval. Except they're not like that at all....
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Credit for Reddit
There's a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I began first grade, she received a polite but concerned note from my teacher. Evidently, when my time to show-and-tell had arrived,...
View ArticleNow and Then and Maybe Later
Note: This post will be updated at irregular intervals today, Saturday, August 30 whenever the words decide to magically appear on my Word processor. Let's call it a "Time Experiment" and pretend we...
View ArticlePilot
To start out the new school year, I'm going to try including more fun multimedia stuff in these blogs. Not that I don't like writing or will stop writing text posts, but I just want to experiment more...
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What it’s like to work at NASA
Networking is a funny thing. It can be formal (and slightly artificial) - think of the scripted conversations you have with recruiters over and over at career fairs. But it can also come about more...
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MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor
Jolt Launches Device to Help ID Concussions in Kids MIT students are always pumping out crazy new inventions left and right. The builder community at MIT is one of the strongest in the world and being...
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So You Want to Declare a Double Major?
I'm going to start this out with a quick disclaimer: no, a double major isn't for everyone and please don't feel like you're an inferior student/person/wizard/etc. for only pursuing a single major. Do...
View Article(My Third) First Day
First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some reason, I assumed that holding a camera and walking around campus would give me steady enough footage to not cause motion sickness....
View Article“I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…”
The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams,...
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Mathematics for Computer Science -“Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed”
After going through a quarter-life-crisis and switching a lot about my approach to MIT (more on that later), I've finally figured out my classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this...
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California Love
Every year our office travels all over the country to speak to students about MIT. The goal of these presentations is to demystify the Institute and our admissions process, particularly for those...
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This summer we (Matt, Kris, Chris, the ‘15s, and I), after a rigorous and emotional selection process, hired, from among 62 applicants (including Snively), four freshman bloggers and two seniors (not...
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Moving Out, Up, and In
I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of life. In other words, the more catered Chipotle, rush burgers, or local pizza consumed, the higher one’s overall satisfaction with...
View ArticleMIT = Home
MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a community. This means walking down the hallway to greet smiling friends, then doing homework with them and talking until too late. It’s...
View ArticleGood Morning, Sportsracers!
Introductions are generally a clunky thing for me. There's some basic bio information I can give when I meet people around the Institvte ("Hi, I'm Danny; I'm a senior majoring in physics with CS...
View ArticleBoomeranging
September 2nd The round tables are blue, yellow, and green this year. I don’t think they’ve ever been so colorful – I remember white tablecloths, or no tablecloths at all – but I can’t be sure. After...
View ArticleEAPS Field Trip
Towards the beginning of the school year, my friend Rachel R. '16 forwarded me this email: Greetings, On Saturday September 13th and Sunday September 14th, I will lead our “annual” field trip to...
View ArticleGreat Expectations
Expectation: There is no way I’m getting into MIT, let alone becoming a blogger. But sometimes reality takes unexpected turns for the better. Hi, I’m Michelle, and it’s super nice to meet you! If you...
View ArticleThe Deadline
I have discarded jeans for yoga pants. My laundry load does not fit in the large washer. Chocolate and peanuts and granola make me groan, for too often they have replaced a human lunch. Soon I will...
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