Ask Me Anything

Ask Me Anything My grades for the semester have finally all appeared on WebSIS, and Ive passed all of my classes, so that means I am officially done with my undergraduate education! Phew. What does that mean for you? Well, it means I not only have a lot of free time for writing blog posts, but Im also feeling reflective. I have a lot of wisdom to share with you all, but Im not really sure where to start, so I figure this isnt a bad way to find a starting point: ask me anything in the comments. Go ahead. Dont be shy. This is a judgment-free zone. To give you some ideas, here are some things you could ask me about and expect a reasonably intelligent answer in return: Me (my 3.5 years at MIT, how I feel about them, what I loved, what Id do differently) Math (my experiences with it, anyway; for actual math questions, you should probably go tomath.stackexchange.com) I dont feel terribly qualified to talk about anything else, but if youd like to ask anyway, Id be happy to attempt to answer questions about things like: Dealing with the college application process Relationships Feminism Disney movies Your fears about the future Oh, and I suppose I should tell you about my semester before I go. Briefly: 18.821 ended up being more interesting than I expected, but I didnt get to devote quite as much time to the projects as I wanted because I was busy with other things. 18.03 was exactly what I expected. Concert Choir was fun but scheduled at an unfortunate time (7:00-9:30pm Mondays and Wednesdays); I never really got used to it. I learned a lot in 21M.302; I looked at some sheet music Id tried to analyze a few years ago, and some of it makes a lot more sense now.24.244 was an interesting look at how non-mathematicians study a mathematical subject. And as you already know, I did this. It was fun! Highly recommended. Just wish Id actually worn a bowtie. Edit: okay, one exception: I am not going to answer the question what are my chances? Sorry, but theres definitely no way for me to know without seeing your entire application, and even if I did I dont know how admissions actually works. Ask Me Anything closed! at 10:54 EST. so i can go to bed without worrying about whom Im not answering. thanks all!   Today is Sunday. I am at home. After I do a small amount of requisite shopping, I am going to eat an entire apple pie and a whole bunch of delicious bread, then watch twelve hours of football until the insulin pouring out of my eyes from all of the carbs sends Jay Cutler into diabetic shock via the television. During that time: open thread. Ask me anything. About admissions or anything else. Unless the question is, as Elizabeth would say, totes inapropes, Ill probably answer it. e: the pie Ask Me Anything This summer I wrote a bloggerGuilt script  to help me keep track of posting patterns on the blogs. But when I ran it earlier this morning, I realized that I was in the lower half of the distribution of blogs by various metrics, meaning I myself had been a bad blogger. Ill spare you the various excuses and instead try to make it up to you. Im sitting at home in New Hampshire on my couch in the sun, alternately working on neglected projects and napping while my mom watches old movies and unpacks Christmas decorations. Tomorrow Im moving, and then were starting to meet in Early Action committee, so Ill be reading applications instead of comments. But for the next ~12 hours or so I will try to answer any question you ask below, about admissions or anything else really. You can also consider it an open thread to post interesting things youve recently learned, read, or watched. Its a holiday weekend, and I think most of our American readers will probably be lazing around digesting like me. So lets all hang out.