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Chris inspired me to do dumb things
January 2015 I saw a Reddit post about a guy's mother who ran the Goofy Challenge at Walt Disney World. For those unaquainted, the Disney theme parks host a variety of runs throughout the year. Many...
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Growing Up
Hey you! Yeah, you -- you're Chris, right? And you just wrote this blog, right? Okay. Now we've got that out of the way, allow me to introduce myself. I'm you from July 20, 2016 - yeah, about 9...
View ArticleEverything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT
If you know anything about MIT, you know that there's a lot of numbers involved. You may know that most buildings are known better by their numbers than anything else, that the courses of study span...
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On Essay Writing
Hello there. Normally, I’d spend a few minutes trying to come up with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of this blog post, but unfortunately, the circuits in my brain in...
View ArticleWarmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post)
I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the meantime, I've got a guest post from my friend Elaine L. '18, who also wrote the grocery guide posted in May. This time, she writes...
View ArticleOur 2016-17 Application Essay Questions
As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from prospective applicants about what essay questions will be on our application this year. Although our application does not go live...
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Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW
Are you interested in any of: making governments work better? how to design human interactions with technical systems? the electoral consequences of international trade? universal grammar? Last...
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summer scraps
where i am The downstairs door is open; I can feel it because crosswalk conversations ("...host a wine party..." "No way!") waft up to where I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new...
View Articlesummer’s end
this is the first time i've spent a summer at mit as a UROP student. in that time i have: started cooking again filled out more stamp cards than i can count at the laverdes sandwich shop walked to...
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How I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show
Ambitious Adventures, a reality TV show following innovative cities around the U.S. and it's entrepreneurs, will be premiering next year. I always liked the idea of reality TV - capturing real...
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Mexico things
Hey Internet, how’s it going? Good? Good! Personally, I’ve had a pretty lazy past two weeks, indulging in Netflix and the sun and a near-absence of productivity - three things I have not experienced...
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Philosophy Things
Economics is a weird kind of science. Like biologists or chemists, economists are of course concerned with gathering empirical data to support or refute their theories about the world. But unlike the...
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What is Simmons Hall Like?
On my 18th birthday and going away party, we had a huge cake with an MIT Logo on it. Next to my birthday cake were two robotic arms (the ones that Iron Man talks to in his workshop), which I assembled...
View ArticleListen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos
The blogs have been quiet lately. Summer is ending, freshman are arriving on campus, upperclassmen are returning to campus, admissions officers are preparing for the admissions cycle (sort of like...
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Dreams
For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is a question that is easily answered when we are five or six (princess, tiger (shoutout to my little sister Mikayla), spaceman,...
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Thoughts on personal wellbeing
Man, it’s that time of year again. I find it like half weird and half amazing to think that it’s been over two full years since I first moved in to start my first semester, and that within the next...
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MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students
One of my UROPs this summer was exploring the history of immigrants and international students at MIT. The Institute has a long history of committment to diversity. In fact, as early as 1917, the...
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MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship
FPOPs are freshman pre-orientation programs, where you get to come to MIT a week early and learn about a specific aspect of MIT while getting to know the other freshmen in your program. Most (all?)...
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Gendered language
This morning my mom showed me a newspaper article and asked me my opinion of it. I’ve been thinking about it throughout the day, and felt it was interesting enough to share and discuss. See here:...
View ArticleThe REX That Was
Today is Reg Day, i.e. Registration Day, when MIT students make official their fall schedule (add/drop notwithstanding). Tomorrow is the first day of classes, and the first meeting of CMS.614/21W.791...
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