Having Survived Rejection (guest post)
This is a guest post by someone--Michael T. (UMD '19)--whose college essays I helped edit last year. He's a friend of a friend who wrote an entire essay about soldering. Like many of you, he worked...
View Article2020 Admitted Student Gatherings
With Campus Preview Weekend just a few weeks away (sign up here if you haven’t done so already), early spring is an exciting time for the MIT community. Newly admitted students have received their...
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Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back
Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped working. Here is our kitchen, which is probably not the kitchen...
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我没去过北京
(Read the English version here!) 我没去过北京。我们回中国去的时候，总是去上海、南京、杭州，总是在江苏一带。我记得，我小的时候还能说上海话（我三、四岁的时候，外婆照顾我，我就学了上海话）。...
View ArticleWhat’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative
I've blogged before about how, a few years ago, Jeremy Rubin '16 managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to distribute $100 in Bitcoin to every MIT undergraduate as his final...
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It’s Not Me, It’s You
Fun fact: when George Washington was a young Virginian, his driving ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated attempts, he was denied a commission in the service: not,...
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Spring Break
I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík....
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I Have Never Been to Beijing
在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am most fluent in English, there are some added thoughts here that were not in the Chinese-language post, and additionally, some things...
View ArticleAwesome People of 2016
Planned Parenthood Youth Advocates Today at the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, I completed my final Youth Advocate training (a program that I'd introduced here). The eight Youth...
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A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT
If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago,...
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That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style!
Hello everybody! My name is Katy and I’m a senior studying electrical engineering (6-1). Joel has kindly let me write a blog post for him about my favorite thing about MIT – the ski team! For those of...
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If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you?
Study: Continuous Data Stream of MIT Student Reveals Something Department of Physical Education | Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 INTRODUCTION...
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Mini-Guide to CPW
CPW (or KAPOW, as we call it sometimes) starts tomorrow. We are thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past week, our inboxes have been filled with KAPOW reminders and...
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Grey and Other Colors
For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback from fellow alums who have felt similar things. It's a...
View Article10 (more) reasons why MIT is beautiful
Part 1 here (1) Because sometimes when you’re heading home after a long day of classes, you turn around and see this: A photo posted by Michael Cheung (@m_cheung_) on Oct 19, 2015 at 2:32pm PDT...
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An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat)
A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of my favorite mailing lists is Burton-Conner’s, not because of the content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because...
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Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman
A photo posted by Michael Cheung (@m_cheung_) on Apr 13, 2016 at 4:07pm PDT If you know anything about startups, you know Y Combinator. YC has spawned $50 billion worth of startups, including...
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We Should Go To Canada
The other day, I had an interesting conversation with Kayla E. '15. She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours later, we hopped in her car with bags full of clothes and...
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MIT And/As Marathon
Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair of sweatpants I'll wear exactly once. I'll board a yellow schoolbus and try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and...
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spring notes
spring verb 1. move or jump suddenly or rapidly upward or forward 2. originate or arise from noun 1. the season after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern...
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