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study spots at MIT
since it’s my last semester, I’ve been trying to spend more time working on campus. or rather, I feel guilty whenever I work in my bed since I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the...
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what your favorite study spot says about you
a cursed follow up to this post. note that these are based off general vibes and probably hold no truth to them whatsoever ! Plant Room (Building 46) you’re an artsy hipster—you’re passionate about...
View ArticleChanges that I’m making this semester
Paper notes I hate taking notes with my iPad, so I went back to good old pen and paper notes this semester. I’m still writing up problem sets on my iPad though because that makes it easier to submit...
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gesturing around MIT
After **quite** the hiatus,01 *Checks watch* wow I was a sophomore last time I posted... yikes it would probably make sense to say what I have been doing and what exactly has been keeping me away...
View ArticleMIT-vangelion (Pi Day 2023)
MIT Regular Action decisions will be available online on Tuesday, March 14, at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s...
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SnowDays
SnowDays is a snowflake maker, and I think by far the best one. I hate snow, but I like snowflakes. You have this triangle that you draw cuts in, and it shows the result you’ll get when you unfold it....
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an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs
Until very recently,01 read, they still haven't kicked me out of the group chat yet. I was the president of Next House, the dormitory where I live. The role of dorm president is often a job without a...
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[Guest Post] The Southbound Train
This is a guest blog post by my dear friend (and first person I ever met in person at MIT post-CPW) Kylee C. ’23. Few things on God’s green earth fill my little southern heart with as much delight and...
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MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes!
We–Jebby, Jenny, Kai, and Isbla–animated this year’s Pi Day video! If you haven’t checked it out yet, lookie here. To achieve this, we ate nothing but ramen noodles and slept in the basement of Stata...
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Announcing new blogger avatars!
The bloggers’ old avatars were drawn by a talented professional in a recognizable and well-liked style. But some of us thought, what if we could do a worse job? Wouldn’t that be better? Today, I am...
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17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know
Whether you blog for a job and get paid by the hour, or you’re writing yardlong screeds in a blog that no one reads, you probably know how hard it is to write good blog posts. Thankfully, you don’t...
View Articlewinning
for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was because of the academic environment i was raised in – other people doing well on math contests meant i would have a worse rank, other...
View Articledinners with friends
i spent spring break writing. writing blog posts, writing things for our informatics olympiad, writing emails for the puzzle club. the time i didn’t spend writing i spent eating dinner with friends! on...
View Articlemiserable and magical
then what to feel with every shard of grief, and every speck of beauty, it is as though with this overwhelming pain and love and beauty, i have never felt anything before, but i am not feeling...
View ArticleReaching for the STARS*
Today, (April 4, 2023), marks the public launch of the STARS (Small Town and Rural Students) College Network, a collaborative effort of a select group of 16 colleges and universities, including MIT,...
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DRAW TIM (the beaver)
I am not a fan of icebreakers. It already takes a not-insignificant amount of energy for me to psych myself up enough to interact with a large group of people—especially people I don’t know. And if, on...
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avoiding responsibility
I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally have a manageable workload, but I have spent the past few hours doing nothing in particular except think about all the things I need...
View ArticleFalse Precision
Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one might expect, I was inevitably asked about my assessment of...
View Articlewhat we talk about when we talk about trust
My friend Derek Y. ’22 and I were talking about closeness, and Derek proposed that closeness arises from honesty, which requires trust. That was when I realized my conventional model of closeness...
View Articlecoming off the path
“Where have you been?” Dear Reader, I’m not sure if I can begin to even explain where I’ve been. At the risk of sounding edgy, I’ve spent the past month and a half feeling as though I am floating....
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