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eclipse chasing, undergrad edition
This post is very very delayed, for which I plead procrastination on my part :(. The Great North American Eclipse happened on April 8th, 2024, but better posted late than never! Here are several...
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Lessons from Loomis and Whitney
Unfortunately I don’t think I will be talking about the duality between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though maybe I will later this month/semester we will see). But...
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cleats on feet, smile on face
Spring season has started, and guess who got to lace up their cleats and practice for the first time in eight and a half months? You guessed it: I did! Since my injury in preseason this past fall,...
View Articlethoughts on math@MIT!
I asked a bunch of people, professors, current and former students why they do math and their thoughts on the MIT math department. Here is what they had to say! Short introductions! Jonathan: My name...
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CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour
CPW was so much fun! I meant to get this blog up and running beforehand, but I was too busy prepping for all the events I lead or helped with! Here’s how they went. Contour My team and I held several...
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packing for the road
A few thoughts from this week– The rapid onset of graduation seems to be hitting this week. Last night my friends and I wandered from B1 to Skullhouse, for a hospital-themed birthday party complete...
View ArticleFlipping Failure
This IAP, I took part in a writing workshop at MIT known as Flipping Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ~5 minute (true and personal) story about challenge and...
View Articlean orange tour
Last year, I hosted a pre-CPW livestream01 fyi this was streamed through a website on the Google Chrome app on my iPhone so pls forgive the lag and low video quality showing the Class of 2027 orange...
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tote bag tour
I don’t know how it started exactly–a nice lug of canvas here, a floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the guise of functionality: this one’s dark enough to hold tubes of...
View Articlebrowser archaeology
inspired by Alan’s browser archaeology post, I started looking at the tabs open on my phone to see if such a post would be worth doing. it was then, looking at the over 1500 tabs open, that I realized...
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i stole a vhs player!
Two weekends ago01 Ok, it's like 3 now, but i'm not going to change the language out of respect to the original post. was CPW, or Campus Preview Weekend. A lot of really neat events happened, but I...
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I painted a mural for Borderline!
Since coming here, I’ve had two items at the top of my bucket list. #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to finish one of these last night! Borderline is a project that...
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Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes
“Everyday objects suggest amusing controllers” – Perry Cook This semester, I’m taking 21M.370 – Digital Instrument Design! It’s a new(ish) music technology class about using microcontrollers (Arduinos,...
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chasing the aurora
This past Friday evening, I wished I didn’t want to see the aurora because the trip seemed logistically inconvenient, I was tired, and I had looked forward to entering ~introvert hours~ all day… alas....
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Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope!
“Wow, MIT has a class about digital instrument design now?”, my advisor exclaimed as he looked over my registration at the start of the semester, “That’s so cool! I would’ve loved that as an...
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[Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore
Claire S. ’25 is a Computation & Cognition (6-9) major from Missouri. She’s one of MIT’s small-town and rural student ambassadors – part of the larger Small Town and Rural Student (STARS) Network,...
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Backstage at the CPW Closing Show
“Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions officers; it’s a catch-call term used by employers to encompass all the miscellaneous tasks an employee may be required to perform...
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[Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28
This year, Jeremy, Nikki, and I were in charge of the Admitted Student Welcome and Closing Show—two of the flagship events of CPW. Jeremy wrote a lovely blog post to document all the behind-the-scenes...
View ArticleI Hate the Last
It’s 9:05am PST. I told myself I’d wake up past 9:14, but either due to stress or due to a (relatively) healthy sleep schedule my senior year, I’m up 9 minutes too early. It’s 9 minutes too early,...
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