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i’m catching up
And just like that my junior year at MIT comes to an end. Not with the usual last-minute packing or the rush over to Logan airport, but with a silent click of a submit button on my 20.330 (Fields,...
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6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems
NAVIGATION The Class Lab 1 Lab 2 Design Exercises Weather Smart Lamp The Clapper Final Project Week 0 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 The Final Product final thoughts Introduction I entered MIT as a...
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I Finally Finished Intro Programming
At MIT, the one-semester intro programming class, 6.00, can be broken into two six-week halves, 6.0001 and 6.0002. My first attempt at getting credit for 6.0001, by taking an advanced standing exam,...
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semester 4, take 2
me: is this my fourth semester? can you explain that to me? my mom: nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid growing old? can someone tell me how i got here, and there, and to...
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Sentimental Objects (part four)
This is the fourth and final installment of our sentimental objects blog series, where we describe the random memorabilia that we collected over the school year and that we stored in our memory...
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Signs of Life
In the past few months, communication with each other has been sparse and limited to being mostly textual: an email to an advisor, letting them know how we’re doing now that the semester is over, a...
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Wonder
…[B]ut string dozens of great events together, and none of them would stand out. Nothing would be particularly life-changing, nothing would be particularly memorable. Until eventually, my standards...
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I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!!
On Friday, I went to the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University for the first time! Established in 1872, it’s the oldest public arboretum in North America, and is home to over 1.3 million trees,...
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Beyond the Stop Light
P.S. Even though we won’t be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs,...
View ArticleTo our prospective students and their families
Over the last few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives of many people around the world, including our prospective students and their families. As organizations, institutions, and...
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GET A BIKE
okay. i’m super behind on this and that’s my bad. but… when you return to/arrive on campus, you should consider getting a bike. it’s so worth it. i lived in Burton-Conner, the fourth dorm down Dorm...
View ArticleSounds like home
This post is long overdue. These are not the circumstances I had hoped to meet you in, but since I’m already stuck in a staring contest with my computer screen for 12 hours a day, now seemed as good of...
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Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks
Maybe it’s a little existential, but at the back of my mind, I am always thinking about what I will leave behind once my time on earth comes to an end. It would be great if I left more than bones and a...
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[Guest Post] Duolingo Champion
this is a guest blog post from my dear friend aidan chambers ’23 who is like an older brother to me! he did something that i can’t tell is crazy or stupid or maybe even a little bit of both and i b e g...
View ArticleA letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis
Today, the Class of 2020 graduates — virtually — from MIT. On a normal day, we’d be gathered in Killian Court, and I’d be kneeling on the grass, taking photos and giving hugs. Of course, today is not a...
View ArticleParting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was
The original premise for this blog post was that I would dissect the bio/about section of my blogger profile, which I wrote in either August or September of 2016. I thought, in the style of my last...
View ArticleMedia That Makes Me Feel Okay
(A quick note before I start this post: My intro would be kind of confusing if I didn’t tell you that I made the last-minute decision to move back to my hometown for the summer. For those who’ve been...
View Articleon being seen
I have been absent from the blogs for the better part of eight years. My absence is easy to explain, though, having left the Institute to work more closely with students as a college counselor in a...
View ArticleOUTRAGED.
Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble, being physically, mentally and financially protected from the realities of what a lot of black people live through in this...
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Final Project Demo Roll
For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester, you might remember that this was supposed to be the semester where I really came into my own as a MIT student. And I did, I think....
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