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Distance and Displacement
Let's review a concept taught in the lowest levels of classical physics. You have an object and you move it. The length of the path you move it along is called the distance travelled. The difference...
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Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red
Maseeh Hall has been my home here at MIT for the last four years, including this year, my final one at this esteemed institute. Not only have I lived in the same dorm for four years but I have lived...
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weather and stuff
I do not own any fall clothes. It seems that this is going to be a problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from Wisconsin, and the other, Abby, is from San Diego. Last week...
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Wide-Eyed
Meet Dennis Hopper. That was a portrait taken of him by Charles Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces that had been left after the rest of the rejects of the art...
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Curbing Hunger at MIT
Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how and what you want to eat for the next 4+ years. For some, it’s as simple as picking which dining hall you want to go to. For...
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Why Is There No Water?
A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and the complexity of getting water to places that don’t...
View Article2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails
Hi 2021 Applicants! It’s been two weeks since my first post addressed to you. It’s a long weekend and thus an excuse to pretend that I don’t have to do work yet (although this is work; also, according...
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How to miss deadlines at MIT
There is this class I'm taking called 18.100B (Real Analysis) which I can't tell if I love or hate. I’ll be working on the problem sets and thinking like, "man, this is amazing, I can feel myself...
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my day in pictures
9:41 am: in lab 5:51 pm: in lab again... 7:44 pm: ...still in lab it's been one of those days. we have a lab assignment due tomorrow. 6.111 aka "introductory digital systems laboratory"...
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Invitation to Cross-Register
PSA: This is a really cool guest post by my friend Katherine W. '17 who is course 20 like me and has aspirations of owning two Australian Shepherds at some point in her life. Isn’t this invitation...
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October potpourri
I checked my Timehop today and saw a tweet about how I was stressed about college essays. It's interesting how life changes. A year ago, college applications were at the forefront of my mind. I...
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Flow: Writing Like Yourself
Not every writer is an artist. Not every piece of writing is a work of art. I realized this last year as a high school senior when I was frantically typing up essays fueled by caffeine and a tinge of...
View ArticleQuestbridge 2016 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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A Night Off Campus
6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms) and I have an interesting relationship this semester, one that's partly tortured, and partly beautifully soul-consuming. Still, on October 10 at 6pm, I can...
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anatomy of a hell week
let me take a second to talk about the week i've had: last thursday, i went to not one but two P.E. classes because it was the last day of the quarter, and i also read three stories for CMS.307...
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wayfaring
Earlier today I realized I haven't blogged since my hack documentation more than a month ago. There are a bunch of long, thoughtful, well-considered posts I've been meaning to write, but, like Phoebe,...
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EA Deadline Tomorrow
Hello party people! I know. November 1 is looming and you are probably feeling like Gary here: As admissions counselor on duty today, I've been helping answer your calls and want you to know that...
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A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick
I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post sounds like a fun, silly mini-project that an MIT student would do in their free time (and maybe that’s why you clicked on this...
View Article“Failing” at MIT
For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four relatively easy years of high school seem to fly by; SAT’s, ACT’s, TGIF’s, BYOB’s, and a whole slew of other acronyms leave you with a...
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EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”)
Screaming It’s been a while. Welcome back. Let’s get this over with: That was East Campus, video by and courtesy of Eric Lujan ‘19, screaming cathartic on Friday, November 6, 2015. Today is Sunday,...
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