Clik here to view.
A Weekend of Hacking
You're flipping through the TV channels, bored out of your mind between all the reality TV and cooking show. Then you come across a channel that catches your attention. A brilliantly parodied logo...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Family Weekend 2014, Day 1
I've been so busy. It's 3:23 am and this is my free time. Well, not really free time. I COULD be studying for my 8.02 exam on Monday morning but instead I'm catching on all of my blog post writing....
View ArticleLost in the Pages of the Institute
I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief two-month period in fifth grade and the culmination of every wistful moment I’ve encountered someone in MIT play the piano with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data,...
When I tell people that I'm majoring in Biology, they typically assume that I am pre-med, or else shudder at high school memories of endless memorization and quickly change the topic. But to me,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin
This semester has been different from anything else I've done. I started out taking 7.06, cell biology, and 6.854, advanced algorithms, the sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Enjoying the Little Things
In lieu of posting about any huge on-campus events or grandiose life-changing moments (of which I've had none in the past two weeks, to my knowledge), I decided to make a vlog about the little things...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Below 48, Part 2
You asked for it[citation needed], and so here it is. After the list of classes I gave in my last post, we're left with the question: what am I doing with my spare time? Sleeping? No, that's what I...
View ArticleMy Talk @ Maker Faire
We've had makers on the mind here for a little while. Earlier this month Ceri blogged about the MIT Maker Faire. Earlier this year Dawn and I wrote a white paper for the White House about technically...
View ArticleClik here to view.
disinterprerto!
I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for Unified Engineering mean my afternoons are very free. Since I'm...
View ArticleDining at MIT
Dining is such a fancy word. Think of the different mental pictures between “I’m currently eating” and “I’m currently dining.” Dining is so professional, deliberate, and sophisticated. It feels...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Grace Hopper
My employer recently sent me to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing -- which is basically an 8,000-attendee-and-growing conference centered on removing the barriers that keep women from...
View ArticleThis Post Has a Happy Ending
Do you know what “hosed” means? Urban Dictionary defines it as, “impossibly busy with less time or resources to complete everything than available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context:...
View ArticleThe Early Action deadline is almost here
Hi all, Happy Halloween! Tomorrow night is the deadline for Early Action. Here are some things we want you to know: Early Action applications should be submitted by 11:59pm Eastern Time on November 1....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Trick or Treating
I can’t remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween. Last year I celebrated by popping into Spooky Skate and skating (read: falling on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Halloween Tag
Halloween was yesterday, marking the end of the spoopiest of months. We're trading pumpkin dances for turkeys and Christmas carols sung wayyyy too early (anything pre-December is too early in my book,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet
A non-negligible number of people reading this were probably pretty panicked at the submission of their Early Action applications during the last few days. That's over now, so breathe and allow me to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS
A typical day in East Campus. Okay, it was not quite typical. It was a little abnormal. It was Halloween. I was surprised to see the lack of costumes worn during the day around MIT's campus. I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Home Away From Home
(Click to zoom) Panoramic look at my room in Random Hall, let's zoom into some of the more interesting parts! On top we have a couple of props from my favorite movies/comics. The first shelf holds the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch
The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch is one of my favorite events at MIT. It is annual, put on by the MIT Glass Lab (the people who make the pumpkins) in a tent on the Kresge oval. There is a one-evening...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Chomsky and Infinities
YAY November!!! First off, a huge WELCOME to the EA applicants! You submitted your application and now comes the hardest part, forgetting about it until December. A girnomous WELCOME also to the RA...
View Article