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FUN Form FAQs
Happy New Year, beautiful people! Hope you all enjoyed the holidays as much as my family did: Anyway, I come to you in 2018 bearing forms… the February Updates and Notes (FUN) form. tl;dr: the FUN...
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A Day of IAP
Starting last week, IAP (Independent Activities Period) commenced, which is a month of courses, events, and other activities around campus between the fall and spring semester. While some people go...
View ArticleThe Aftershock
In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big heart, bright mind, and beautiful smile. According to psychiatrists, when you hear terrible news, you go through 5...
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Why Leadership? (guest post)
This week, I spent four days and three night at the Salvation Army Wonderland Camp and Conference Center in Sharon, MA for the MIT LeaderShape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be...
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January in Paris
Bonjour de la France! Photo credit: Rebecca Grekin. I’ve spent the last two weeks in Paris with an MIT program called JSF—January Scholars in France. The students of JSF 2018 and our chaperone, Prof....
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Sketches from the Independent Activities Period
This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is...
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Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017
This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is...
View ArticleCollege Life Changes, Described by a Frosh
This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is...
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MIT for Book Lovers
This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is...
View ArticleGive MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance
This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is...
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A Meta Yultide Finale
This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is...
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Room 251
IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally returned to Next House last week in time for UPOP's week-long training workshop, which is about to come to a close. I had a...
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Because Racecar
Kevin C. '17 (pictured above at the Porsche Museum) is now a grad student in the Aerospace Controls Lab. He was the electrical systems lead of the MIT Formula SAE team as an undergrad. What follows is...
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I(t)A(ly)P
A friend of mine gets airline buddy passes through his dad which allowed us to take this impromptu little trip to the North End's motherland. I didn't do anything educational whatsoever, but I sure...
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Ciao, Italy!
Pre-trip background: IAP (Independent Activities Period) in Pavia, Italy through MISTI’s (MIT International Science and Technology Initiative) GTL (Global Teaching Labs –– we sure do love our...
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Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right
Caution: this post is probably NSFW. Two Decembers ago, when I was just a babby sophomore, my floor had a gingerbread decorating party. It was one of a series of events organized by The Committee, an...
View ArticleThe Last First Day
I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT. Today...
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Freshman Fifty-Seven
By now, three full days have passed into my second semester here. The infinite corridor is total chaos as tourists and students battle for placement in the hall, the dining halls are back up and...
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the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book,...
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