Not Much Has Changed
Do you know what day it is? Well, one year ago, on September 17th, 2013, an excited young blogger published a heartfelt post gleefully talking about what his first year at MIT is going to be like....
View Articlewow.
wow. I'm Joe, and I don't really know where to start this post. I guess I'm a blogger now. Also apparently I'm a real life MIT student now too. Neither of these are things I ever thought would happen,...
View ArticleSummer Recap—The Book Launch
For several reasons, it’s been quite a while since my last blog. Between then and now, a fusillade of transformations has taken place. Rather than present a disjointed patchwork of events from here...
View ArticleTetazoo Goes Camping
Last weekend was the Tetazoo fall camping trip, and my first time ever joining the group on an adventure through the woods of New Hampshire during the fall semester. What is Tetazoo? Tetazoo is the...
View ArticleA Written Post
Typed out notes in review: I wrote this two weeks ago I apologize for my handwriting Ceri's post is here I am also very inspired by Lydia K. '14's posts like her Dragons post. I really like her...
View ArticleDoggy Birthday
This is Butterstick. Butterstick weighs 10 pounds. She was named for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a zookeeper described as being the size of a stick of butter. Like...
View ArticleCareer Fair Thoughts
There have been plenty of posts about MIT's career fairs, mostly talking about the massive quantities of free stuff (water bottles, shirts, pens, cupcakes, etc.) you can acquire from hundreds of...
View ArticleWhat If… I Met Randall Munroe?
If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd.com, read all 1400+ comics, laugh, cry, fall in love, and then come back. xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and...
View ArticleYear 2 at Hogwarts
Close enough. ** Year 1: Vincent Anioke. No department. Year 2: Vincent Anioke. Year 2 Undergrad. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. It’s been a year since I came to MIT,...
View ArticleDoodles: Career Fair Edition
The MIT Fall Career Fair is an intimidating thing. Over 350 companies show up and they all potentially want to give you jobs. That is, if you are a senior. (If you're younger, they may or may not want...
View ArticleI Am Excited
I am excited. I am excited because my math professor is sentences away from proving that the set of all real numbers (R) is uncountably infinite. That is, it’s on a whole new level of infinity, and...
View ArticleThe Halls are Alive
After briefly lamenting the longer lunch lines upon the students' return to campus, I reveled in the laughter and greetings heard down the Infinite alongside falling juggling balls, skateboards and...
View ArticleAnother Cat Post
This is a really difficult week for every single student at MIT. I do not want to talk about that yet. Instead, I am going to show you some pictures of kittens and cats. I hope that you are okay, and...
View ArticleHere Comes the Sun @ MIT
On sunny days, I like to wander through MIT's gorgeous campus. Below are some images I've collected over the course of the month. Enjoy! :) Messages in the Sky over Kresge Auditorium: The Light...
View ArticleStaying Organized
Apologies for the video length/quality this week. MIT has me sufficiently hosed this weekend, following an already-stressful week. Such is life. Hopefully you're able to decipher my rambling in this...
View ArticleCareer Fair Round 2
It's been a week since the Career Fair, which still feels like yesterday, and two weeks since my last blog post, which also still feels like yesterday. And September is also pretty much over, which...
View ArticleA Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday
East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller coasters, swim the across the Charles river (YOU HAVE NO PROOF), and have a bajillion cats (SO MANY KITTENS RIGHT NOW). But a...
View ArticleThe Optimal Solution
My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like working (some would even call it playing) with my team. To help us get to know each other, our team leader and I met up over...
View ArticleSet Theory and other Shenanigans
Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3 cards that, for each of their four characteristics, are either all the same or all different. A set must meet ALL of the following...
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