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a few things from civic media
in case you didn't know, it's currently independent activities period (IAP) at MIT -- between the fall and spring semesters, students get a little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel...
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A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days
On January 1st, I enjoyed a nice New Year's dinner with my family. We played games, watched virtual reality horror films, and listened to my 12-year-old brother play the saxophone. On January 2nd, I...
View ArticleSneezes
I would like to start off by thanking you all for deciding to read this blog post. It is highly relevant and important. As you all know, it is around the time of winter break. I chose to spend my...
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The Life Rationing Problem
Introduction: Keeping up with political news this month has, paradoxically, become a rather depressing pastime of mine. Sometimes, it's fun to vanish into a world somewhat tangential to reality,...
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rand.random
There’s a lot of things that happen to us that we simply don’t think about, that we easily forget, that comprise the in-between points of time and space. But thanks to modern technology (particularly,...
View ArticleFighting Indifference
Let this blog post (as unrefined, unedited and typo-ridden as it may be) be representative of today in history as told by a twenty-year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library....
View ArticleYour February Updates & Notes Form
Hi Everyone, The MIT February Updates & Notes Form is now available on MyMIT. Wait! Before you fill this form out, please read some important info below. First, though, relax! This is easy, and...
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Forbes and MIT
On Jan 3rd, Forbes published their annual list of the 30 Under 30 of 2017. For six years now, Forbes has put out lists of the top 30 innovators under the age of 30 for each of 15-20 industry...
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Itinerary: IAP 2017
2016 -> 2017 On Tuesday the 3rd, I packed up what was left of 2016 into several boxes. I left it all behind in Boston as I embarked on my first trip of 2017, bringing along one suitcase and carry...
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Ode to PNR
What I'm pretty sure next semester will be like. No offense to the great and wonderful institutions that are Princeton and Yale. Without further ado, I present my expression of feelings for the...
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Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1
6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, is one of the most challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms class, and dives into the heart of...
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A cornerstone of 6.046, MIT’s infamous algorithms class, is navigating around a variety of limitations (algorithm runtime, computer memory, accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in...
View Articlehello, again
It's been almost three months since my last blog post, so I thought I'd check in again--I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I feel increasingly like I need a really good post about...
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Augmented Reality in Action
Augmented reality is technology that enables you to overlay digital objects onto the real world. And it's pretty freaking cool. I've been following augmented reality and virtual reality closely since...
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#NoBanNoWall
received this email from mit administration sometime yesterday: To the members of the MIT community: The Executive Order President Trump signed yesterday restricting individuals from seven countries...
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Unity
Some lessons, we learn by virtue of way of life. They’re the kind of lessons that unfold not from pulpits or pedestals, but emerge from the simplicity of daily routine, implicit enough to be anything...
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MIT at Copley Square
\ Protests erupted all over the country yesterday in response to Trump's immigration freeze on seven nations. MIT has 38 students from Iran, 1 from Iraq, 5 from Syria, 2 from Sudan, and 1 from...
View ArticleLife during IAP
This post has no central topic or theme. This will simply be a random ordering of things during IAP that stuck out to me. 6.178 - Introduction to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class...
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Stories from High School
Every day, we began in the same place. The bathroom, where we reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day. We had bathrooms on every floor of the dorm building,...
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Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs
Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP programs in Madrid. I enrolled in 21L.590 Global Literature (although on Stellar, it's listed as "Cultural Encounters: Spain and...
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