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Trip Report: ISEF 2016
I'm blogging this from a Starbucks in Phoenix. I'm sweating, partially because it's hot even inside with the AC nominally blasting, and partially because I just ate so much BBQ I'm worried I might...
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Boston Book Festival
Boston Adventure #1 at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here. **** Last fall, my friend and I went to the Boston Book...
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The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT
Four years ago, in October 2012, Lydia published a blog post titled "Meltdown" about the difficult time she was having at MIT. It was a beautiful, sad, and beautifully sad post, and it immediately...
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i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling rested, and realizing i have no commitments. so i went into boston to find a haircut at this place my brother recommended--the guy there...
View ArticlePSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend
I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI 2015, Maker Faire (NYC) 2014), but I rarely provide advance notice before I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to...
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The Most Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY 2016
TechCrunch DisruptNY 2016 was an absolutely amazing experience. For five days I hung out with startup founders, venture capitalists, hackers, journalists, tech bloggers, and fellow student...
View Articleneutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power
Two weeks ago, Gizmodo published an article describing an anonymous former Facebook employee’s claims that Facebook news curators routinely suppressed conservative news from the social network’s...
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I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering.
My thesis is done. It is 384 pages long, 2.0833% of them text, 4.9479% of them pictures, and 90.365% of them code. Here is potato soup, made and dictated by Cory and based heavily on this soup...
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Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class!
MIT has A LOT of graduation requirements. Most colleges have some sort of breadth requirement. MIT, being a technical school, has a weighty 8-class humanities minimum (the Humanities, Arts, and Social...
View Article1st Year at MIT
Hey guys, I first want to start off by apologizing for not being around recently. However, I will make it up to you guys over this summer and into the next year. I have a ton of plans to make sure you...
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a semester
I’m huddled in an office chair in a tiny box-studio in Lexington, MA, where I’m living for the summer with my partner. Campus is 40 - 100 minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus...
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“Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!”
If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably remember seeing an inordinate number of calculators. You might’ve also observed students entering anything from 999*999 to sin(π/6) to...
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Chang Ning District, Shanghai
Shout out to the MIT VPN for helping me climb the Great Firewall. Facebook and google are banned, but for some reason Facebook Messenger still kind of works on my phone, and since I have the VPN I can...
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Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016
Matt Damon? The actor? I thought MIT Commencement speakers were always famous alumni. How did he become this year's speaker? It sounds like I'm being harsh, but I wasn't the only one thinking those...
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Weekend Trip to Salem, MA
(for a visual summary of the trip, scroll down for pictures) “Let’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long weekend. I wasn’t expecting an affirmative answer, really, as a...
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Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights
Mass Innovation Nights is a monthly product launch party for local Boston entrepreneurs. Each one is held in a different place, with this one (#MIN87) being at Bullhorn's new headquarters on the 17th...
View ArticlePSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open
As I've blogged before, many students who are interested in MIT are also interested in high school research competitions, including (but not limited to) those listed on our enrichment opportunities...
View ArticleA Home, not just a Haus
Picture this, it is the summer time, and I am finally free from the stresses of MIT. There are no more PSETs I must frantically worry about handing in on time, there are no more days where I have to...
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What’s happening with Senior House
The thing that happened My phone was buzzing all day Friday with emails regarding the same Thing, the same event, the same new information. As Sabrina described vividly, even the initial subject line...
View ArticleTurning the Tide
A few months ago the Making Caring Common Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education released a report entitled “Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good through...
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