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MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET
This year, the illustrious EA decision blog has been passed to me! My blogging muscles are a little rusty and my memes could be spicier, but even when I’m not overflowing with creativity, I’ve found...
View ArticleMonologuing
The MIT Monologues (MITMo) is a spinoff of the play The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, talking about the intersections of sex, gender, relationships, disability, sexuality, etc. written by people...
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the hardest you’ve ever worked
“It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone, as I hurried down the Infinite and out into the cold. “Junior year is your hardest year.” She told me this five years ago, back in 11th...
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Look at these pictures I drew in class
belugas actually don’t have dorsal fins but uhhhh who cares i found out that notability has a basketball-themed template evangelion ???????
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making solar cells
at the beginning of the semester i wrote a post where i mentioned that i was taking the class nanotechnology: from atoms to systems (6.2540) because it was one of the few mit courses offered this...
View Articleice skating
wayne: it’s just like walking, you put one foot in front of the other cj: does it wayne: nooo you’re marching, like, go a little forward and let yourself glide cj: okay, like this? almost slips. why do...
View ArticleOpen Thread: Not Admitted Early
Today, some of our applicants learned conclusively that we will not be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2027. This is an open forum for you to talk, shake it off, and remember that you will...
View ArticleOpen Thread: Deferred Early
If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Many MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences...
View ArticleMIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you...
View ArticleWorms, Revisited
Song: Ramblings of a Lunatic by Bears In Trees Two months ago, I wrote about four-dimensional worms. Specifically, the philosophical notion that people exist through time in the same way we do in...
View ArticleIs This All I Ever Will Be?
tw: slight nsfw language and talk of objectification and sexualisation I tend to talk about friend groups a lot on the blogs. I’ve always been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had...
View ArticleThings I enjoyed reading in 2022
This is my fourth (and last) post like this. See 2019, 2020, 2021. Things I read for class These are all taken from 21W.765 Interactive Narrative. Going for a Beer (1100 words). Content warning:...
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[Guest Post] GetSimmons!
Combine other dorms to reach the almighty Simmons Hall! 0 0 asdf Keep going Try again How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles with the same dorm touch, they merge into one!...
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final exam distributions
MIT technically does not curve, but many classes will define cutoffs relative to class performance: hence, increased happiness when everyone scores poorly together.
View ArticleI Feel *a* Last
Song: Dancing in the Moonlight by Olive Klug It’s 9:05 am. The sunlight subtly and softly trickles into the room just like it did all those episodes ago in the season premiere. However, this time the...
View ArticleLinks Sent to My Group Chat
I’m a group chat kind of person — I really am bad at individual messaging and anything I find vaguely interesting, funny, entertaining, or controversial, I send to my group chat. Here are some of those...
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plastic knives spraypainted silver
This fall, I took 21W.762 Poetry Workshop with Ed Barrett, a popular class amongst bloggers. 21W.762 was by far the most easygoing class I’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d write a poem in our own time...
View Articlerating classes from this semester
The semester is over and I didn’t go home for winter break because I have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed to the back burner so I could survive my classes (four...
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18.S190
For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On math. Let’s back up a moment. The (Loose) History/Background...
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