But On That Other Side
Hi friends,\r\n\r\nTurns out, I\xe2\x80\x99m not Nisha. \xc2\xa0I\xe2\x80\x99m Andrea M. \xe2\x80\x9918 \xe2\x80\x93 I\xe2\x80\x99ve graduated from MIT, but...
500 Days of Summer
[a brief hiatus from the baby bloggers\' intro posts - don\'t worry, there are more to come!]\r\n\r\nThe title of this post is obviously a lie. There...
East Campus REX Events!
To all the prefrosh who are about to arrive / on their way here / already here: Welcome to MIT! All of us, no matter our class year or living group, are...
an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify
EDIT: Petey mentioned in the comments that we should make a blogger playlist, and we did. Here it is - listen to it while you read this post!\r\n\r\nThis...
an essay writing journey
To the rising seniors beginning to think about their college essays - hello, fellow kids. Are you as stuck on what to write your college essays about as I...
Summer Reading
(Preface: This post is essentially a tribute/continuation of Selam\xe2\x80\x99s posts from past summers - as she wrote, \xe2\x80\x9csometimes MIT students...
Murals of East Campus
(This is the second half of the Art of East Campus series. The first part can be found here!)\r\n\r\nMy first and lasting impression of the standard college...
Doors of East Campus
This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on art in my dorm, East Campus. According to the MIT Mind and Hand Book, MIT allows three...
past, present, future
past\r\n\r\nAt the beginning of the semester, upon looking at my overloaded schedule, pretty much every upperclassman I know (as well as my advisor) told me...
I went outside!
Seriously, this is a real occasion. People talk about never leaving the MIT bubble, and I didn\'t really think about how little I actually leave campus until...
Semester II: v. hosed
You know you\xe2\x80\x99re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to write about your classes. Seriously, look at this...
Thoughts for the New Year
I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it\xe2\x80\x99s been a while (read: the entire semester) since I\xe2\x80\x99ve blogged about my...
Lambda Tea
There are times when I feel incredibly lucky to exist in close proximity to so many creative and amazing individuals, and right now is one of them.\r\n\r\nI...
C-Sail
\r\n\r\nThis might look like a regular old picture of the Stata Center on a cloudy morning...but wait, there\'s more.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nDo you see what I...
Blogger Fam Takes the MFA
Occasionally, we bloggers get together and do cool things that are off the internet. Today was one of those instances. And by today I mean Sunday, because...
More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion
I emerge from three weeks of being fairly hosed WITH MORE COOL DATA STUFF GUYS WOOOO.\r\n\r\nThis time, though, I cannot take any credit for the tear-...
A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus
You trudge out of Walker after your third midterm this week, disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn\xe2\x80\x99t just...
A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT
On Wednesday evening, right before the first 8.01 midterm, I had an inexplicable desire to drink soda. As in, I had to drink soda immediately or I would fail...
The Swing of Things
If you had asked me what I thought college life would be like back when I was in high school, I would have said something like \xe2\x80\x9cprolly pretty busy...
100% Completion
HELLO WORLD and welcome to my playthrough of a new game - college! I\xe2\x80\x99m streaming/blogging live from MIT and I\xe2\x80\x99m indescribably excited...