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Stealing from the Class of 2016
Good day! One of the many unique and altogether unavoidable aspects of MIT life is the mailing list. Mailing lists are powerful tools that allow people to contact a large number of other people whom...
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Two opportunities for high school students
Hi prospective students! I’m writing to tell you about two events the MIT Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is organizing for high school students interested in MIT and all the science and engineering...
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Cats!!
East Campus is the best home I could have ever asked for. Dorms at MIT are kind of different from most other colleges. Each dorm has it's own special culture - and ours is especially fantastic. Not...
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What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~?
Some people can draw. My friend Alison, for example, drew this fabulous "artistic representation" (read: picture) of our Google+ hangout. Yes, that is my Chrome beanie. I, alas, cannot draw. Despite...
View ArticleHack Punt Tool: The Musical
I'M SO EXCITED I'M SO EXCITED I'M SO EXCITED and you should be too. WHY? Because the soundtrack to Hack Punt Tool, a musical about MIT students by MIT students that was a huge success last winter,...
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Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize?
One week from today -- on Monday, October 8 -- the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden will begin to award this year's Nobel Prizes. Nobel Week is a pretty exciting time on campus, since a current...
View ArticleNot in my own words.
Between June 1st and today, I have: written 5 versions of my medical school personal statement completed two separate medical school primary applications (AMCAS, TMDSAS) finished 11 secondaries, each...
View ArticleMaybe it’s okay to be this way
I've been reading popular science for a long time. It's why I'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous appreciation for people like Brian Greene and Oliver Sacks, who...
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Reflections from the “other side” of the desk
It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a college counseling position in Providence, RI. While I am no longer an official member of the broader MIT community, I find that...
View ArticleA Frosh No More
With another add date passing and classes in full swing, I thought I'd take a moment to tell you guys what I'm up to for the semester. This semester is going to be class heavy because I'm doubling up...
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Nerdin’ Out
A couple entries ago, I described 6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms), one of the classes I'm taking the semester. We have a test coming up this Thursday ( O.O ahh ), and in the process of...
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The Unlikely Candidate
My childhood best friend changed schools in 8th grade, so I didn’t get to see her much afterwards, except for the occasional "get togethers" after we took our exams at the bimonthly Science League...
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Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday
Spoilers: there's a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this post. Disclaimer: I gave myself exactly one hour to write this post, because I'm super hosed...so lots of fast typing and zero...
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Sophomore Satisfaction
Unfortunately, having my "hell weeks" for the last two weeks has meant that I haven't done much fun stuff other than spend an obsene amount of time in my room working on psets and studying for all my...
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July and Unified
I have a billion things to say about this semester already and I'm not even done writing about this summer! WHY? Before I go back to this summer, my life...
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Seeing The Dalai Lama
It's not very often that you see someone like Tenzin Gyatso, better known as His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama. Not just because he's a Nobel laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost...
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A Typical Friday Night
As you might have read in my last entry, I had a 6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms) exam this past Thursday. Once it was over, my brain just kind of shut down and didn't do anything productive...
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The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama
On September 24, MIT admissions blogging and His Holiness the Dalai Lama came together in the form of three Unread Message alerts in my inbox. The first, sent at 9:29am, was from Chris, saying that...
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College Interviews
I looked my interviewer in the eye, blinking away sweat from my forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced tea we both ordered. It was 95 degrees and we were both...
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