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I did… kind of poorly on an exam recently. This exam (which was for 6.s966, Symmetry for ML) means nothing, in the end. I’ve finished my major requirements; I’m taking classes for my MEng early, so, in...
View ArticlePE classes are…great!?
Upon admittance, I dedicated a fairly serious and borderline-obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements for every major. Most of this was out of curiosity and to...
View Articlepoem snippets
something silly, something weightless, i want my laugh to echo and not hit me back. i am not a very avid reader but i have lately collected lots of short poems. i don’t think i have many words of...
View ArticleExploring MIT’s sports facilities
It’s a beautiful spring day here at MIT – the sun is peeking through the clouds, I was woken up this morning by birds, and we’ve now mostly exited heaviest-coat-in-the-closet weather (and are now...
View Articleam i boring
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby *** I have come to the profound realization recently that I think I’m boring. I’m not...
View ArticleFood, glorious food
If you asked me before spring break where I like to eat around MIT, I would have told you Simmons Dining (or maybe Maseeh Dining more recently01 Simmons Dining's quality really fell off a cliff this...
View Articlethe best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh
The cherry blossoms are out and the students are slipping onto Kresge Lawn again, accompanied by instruments to strum and bubble teas to sip and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring...
View Articledoctor worm
life has been weird. life has been extremely busy. it feels like things are clicking into place and falling completely apart all at once. i worked all through spring break, including weekends — i think...
View ArticleLax bros
The start of spring is an important time — not because summer is drawing near, not because the temperature is heating up, and not even because the sun stays out past 6 pm. No, the start of spring means...
View ArticleThe Cost of Living at MIT
A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to our collective dismay, there is another side of the coin: spending money. For most students, college will be their first experience...
View Article[Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA!
Days until Blogger AMA: MIT Blogger AMA Link: Coming soon! The MIT Bloggers are hosting a 2-day AMA (“Ask Me Anything”)01 If you don't know what an AMA is, it's basically a Q&A session with a...
View ArticleASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING!
In the spirit of Campus Preview Weekend,01 This weekend, high schoolers who were newly admitted to MIT get to visit the campus and experience student culture up close, from exploring dorm culture to...
View ArticleI DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!!
This coming Tuesday, the major declaration form is due for freshmen. What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my major, organized by what I considered, in a roughly...
View Article[Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review
We’ve been busy at the STARS College Network at MIT! This past year marked our second year as part of the consortium, and we’ve received a lot of great questions about the partnership—questions like:...
View ArticleEvery class I’ve taken at MIT
I’m doing exactly what the title says: ranking every class01 excluding any class less than 6 units (a normal class has 12 units) I’ve ever taken at MIT! Feel free to scroll through and take a look at...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes of MIT Gala
Over the past three years, I’ve been on the organizing board for MIT Gala, our student-run fashion show! Originally conceptualized in 2023 as the launch event for Infinite Magazine, the annual event...
View ArticleThinking Outside of Absolutes
For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There are always moments when you’re presented with a decision,...
View Articlesophomore accumulations
This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: “the only thing I gained this year was academic hardship.” Sophomore year tends to be the year when things ‘get real’, at least as a Mech-e,...
View ArticleSHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My Campus Preview Weekend (MIT’s admitted students weekend, also known as CPW) was a whirlwind of constant adventure. What I wouldn’t have guessed was that the first CPW I’d spend as an actual student...
View ArticleDining Hall Alchemy
One of the many things I love about MIT’s dining halls is that they are buffet-style, allowing you to get as much food as you want from several “stations” around the dining hall. Indeed, an easy way to...
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