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Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP
Sights Las Vegas: At CES 2017, my friends and I networked with startup founders, rode an UberCHOPPER for free, and got into the TechCrunch afterparty. But my main reason for being there was to get...
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An Early History of International Students at MIT
MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from a total of 984 students were international. Three times...
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Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here
The following is a guest post by Sam U. '16 When I applied to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy guys in the control room screaming with joy. I had just finished up...
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three things i made recently
the semester just started, but it hardly feels like school's really in session yet. the snow's only just turned to rain and we've had two snow days in the last week, which meant lots of indoors time....
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Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild?
Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a...
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Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai
The writing process is different for every one of your favorite bloggers. I usually have to wait for inspiration to hit before I'm able to sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one...
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IAΠ
For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in Greece with 19 other MIT students and a trio of professors from the MIT History Department and Concourse program. Here are some...
View ArticleFollow Me: A Video Tour of Campus
I made a video-thing! During the second snow day of the semester, I roped my friends Cathy '17 and Tara '17 into making a video for all you wonderful readers out there. I followed them around campus...
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emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the...
MIT senior Lilly Chin just won the College Jeopardy championships! And she was ahead by so much at the end that this was her final Jeopardy answer: I have been privileged to know and befriend some...
View ArticleLanguage
As an African American I have always felt left out when it comes to language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key to their culture; there was a big difference...
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Food No Context
10:00AM bottle of soylent on the go for breakfast. 12:59PM free lunch after accidentally walking into a Joi Ito (Director of the MIT Media Lab) talk at the Martin Trust Center. 1:08PM our...
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The Joy of Building
In a public high school with about 700 people per class, there was barely enough room to walk in the hallways, let alone room for much creativity. Therefore, I was always diligently reading textbooks,...
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Things That Happened!
Wow! It’s been a while since my last blag. I couldn’t blag during IAP for some logistical reasons, and then the start of the semester was crazy + some other logistical reasons. But while I’ve been...
View Articleinterview: joy buolamwini
i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a huge fan of joy's work ever since i read her blog post on...
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42
MIT classes are divided up into units. The average class is 12 units. The average MIT student takes four classes per semester, so usually around 48 units. Still, imposter syndrome comes up when...
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Siete Ciudades de España
This IAP was my first time ever outside of the United States! El Mirador del Valle--the most beautiful view of Toledo. Photo credit: Rachel Lily Terry, the amazing photographer of our travel group :)...
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MIT Regular Action decisions will be available online next week, on Tuesday, March 14 at 6:28 PM Eastern Time. Next week, when decisions are made available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu...
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The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video
Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for...
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Glassblowing at MIT
MIT is really cool. MIT has a glassblowing class. I took the glassblowing class over IAP. It was really cool (wait actually it was really hot lol). This blog post is about my journey into the art of...
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Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her
A couple of months ago I got an email saying that Leslie Jones (from SNL and Ghostbusters and others) was doing a show at MIT and that tickets were being awarded based on a lottery system. I entered...
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