It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application...
Shortly after 4PM ET we sent out the following email to the (relatively small but still nonzero number of) Early Action applicants for whom we are still missing a component of their application....
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Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
As part of my weekly Boston Enrichment Trip, I ventured today to the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair. Located in the vast Hynes Convention Center, the BIABF was a bit like the MIT Career...
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I never want to finish my P.E. requirement
PE classes in high school tend to follow one of two models. Either they center around “fitness testing”, like running the mile or doing pushups. Or they resemble my PE class from last year. We usually...
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When You Yourself Are Far Away
Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of my scattered favorite graduated friends. This year I...
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This Day, the Year I Applied
November 20, 2013. Precisely 23 days until my first application decision. 22 days after the first application submission. 40 days until the next application deadline. 2 years ago. Back then, those...
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Second Semester Senior
Hello Everyone! Firstly, I’d like to publicly apologize for not being as frequent as I normally am. I think last year, I set a goal of blogging once a week. Sophomore year, this has become decidedly...
View ArticleBlended Learning at MIT
See the original version of this post on the Office of Digital Learning website here. Fourteen years ago, MIT democratized secondary education through OpenCourseWare. Then came edX, a massive online...
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MIT Mac4Change
I wanted to give everyone an update on our campaign to feed the homeless that I started with my friends last month. On November 11, 2015, Veteran's Day and the last day of our campaign, we set up at...
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A Walk down CourseRoad Lane
One of Danny B.D’s many contributions to the MIT community, along with a propellor hat fashion resurgence and an infamous tenure as East Campus Historian, is the ubiquitous and indispensable...
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November
I'm on the train home to Philadelphia. Currently: four women run my life--SZA, Solange Knowles, Sappho, my mother. Schoolwork saturated the first two weeks of November, and then last week was suddenly...
View ArticleTo go home or to stay home
As I’m starting to write this, I’m sitting on an airplane, my rear end seriously sore from ~6 hours in one seat. I’m 24 minutes out from Los Angeles, and I can’t wait to spend Thanksgiving with my...
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Psetting in Connecticut
A brief intro... Last Wednesday, I left MIT to compete at the 2016 Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships in Simsbury, Connecticut, the final qualifying segment for the 2016 U.S. National...
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A Little INSPIRation
In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually blog about, I had the chance to connect to Vaishnavi at one of the Burchard Scholars dinners and we got to talking about INSPIRE, a...
View ArticleLife etc
So I woke up before ten today, which is pretty new and probably good. My sleep schedule has been all over the place lately after staying relatively stable at something like “6 a.m. to whenever my...
View ArticleListen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18
A few weeks ago, I posted our inaugural audio thing where I talked with Holly, who works on our communications team, about applicatons, art, and action team. As I said then, we had been (and still...
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Toy Story Hack!
On November 22, 1995, the first Toy Story was released, becoming the world's first fully computer-generated full-length feature film (source). This year, fans all over the world celebrated the movie's...
View ArticleTips and Tricks to MIT
Honestly, I think if you ask anyone at MIT, there is something of a learning curve. By learning curve I don't mean "oh snap it is going to take me long time to learn all of these new subjects at MIT."...
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Hospital State of Mind
I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses and doctors are nice and have your best interest in mind. But hospitals can also drive you cRaZy. I'm in the hospital, and have...
View Article2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast
It's that time of year again! Final Projects Time! Finals Time! Sleep Deprivation Time! I'm using so many exclamation points because I'm so excited to work on my 6.005 final project for probably the...
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MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET
I've stopped watching Tom Brady catch a double-reverse pass long enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action decisions online next Wednesday, 12/16/15, at Tau Time (i.e....
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