Summer Syllabus in Retrospect
Today is the eighth day of fall and the first day of winter in my head. The warmth, which had faded, returned, and lingered over the past month, is decidedly dead. The sky is white and my bed is very...
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Tales of my first Career Fair
D-3: I need a resume?! I have a busy week ahead--an 18.02 pset due the same day as the dreaded first 8.01 exam in addition to a 3.091 quiz, and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the...
View ArticleLecture Notes: Biology of Culture
Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science Straight from the scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view...
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My Last First Month
Thoughts on September: Me, now that it's October: It feels weird to be a senior. It feels weird to be a senior while excited freshmen are just beginning their MIT journey and everyone is asking "what...
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Super Blood Moon Eclipse
“Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but wonder what she could possibly mean by this. “Huh?”...
View ArticleSelf Help
I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So Children Will Listen, How to Listen So Children Will Speak and The...
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MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s
MIT science reporter John Fitch interviewing computer science professor Fernando J. Corbato at the MIT Computation Center in 1963. Today, in my 15.565 Digital Evolution: Managing Web 3.0 class, we...
View ArticleWhen September Ends
Life is back on the MIT track… I ended my most recent blog post with that. Here’s what it means. Last week was Career Fair. The day when suits replace the sweatpants+baggy tee combos and everyone...
View ArticleMore on balance
I've spent the past few days untangling my personal life, which has lately been less than exemplary. In addition, on Sunday evening, I ate dinner with my brother (MIT '17), aunt, and uncle (who live...
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What is weather?
Before iOS7, Apple’s weather app icon always showed that it was 73 degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with weather. Coming from the San Francisco Bay Area, the weather out...
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When Friends Become Family
I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I have a good amount of friends, but more often than not they are simply acquaintances. However, I do have a very small amount of...
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The 3 Schools I Attend
On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, when the sun has not yet heated the air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two stops later, I get out facing Harvard Hall. There, on the...
View ArticleIntroducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone
One of the most mindblowingly awesome people I've met in my six years at MIT is my friend Julie Legault. Julie is an artist, designer, and biohacker from Montreal. Before she came to MIT, she built...
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Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter
That you vote most certainly does! The following is a guest entry by Cody C. '14 When it comes to politics, there is one argument that I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT...
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Questions of Travel
1,126 students joined the Institute as freshman in the fall of 2011. One of them was Spencer Wilson, a young man from the small town of Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a...
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Breathless
On a weekday, I meet my friend Alberto H. ‘17, who I haven’t seen in a long while, for dinner. We live farther away from each other this year, and we’re all always busy, so this is, surprisingly, a...
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Cooking for Myself
I don’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is really important. Our gatherings revolve around meals. We pride ourselves on making yummy food, and making a lot of it....
View ArticleHappy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk
21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since. If you've never met the Milk, then you should read...
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Hack to the Future
26 years ago, Doc Brown and Marty McFly traveled 26 years into the future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future from its past. This morning, October 21st, 2015, I...
View ArticleQuestBridge 2015 FAQ
This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the QuestBridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don’t worry! If you are a finalist – congratulations! We’re excited to have...
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