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I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT]
MIT is going through changes right now in addition to the new phase of the CUP first-year experiment. Here are two that actually affect me. Graduating Early We are within throwing distance of...
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Leadership @ MIT
I did some ~leadership~ in high school, as I’m sure many of you did. Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were, tbh, since I followed a very typical path. In middle...
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Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live
Earlier today, we completed and released our decisions for transfer applicants who applied for entry during Fall 2019. You may access your decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you...
View ArticleCentimeters to Inches
Centimeters to Inches Peering out of the plane’s window, a shy, tanned girl arrived looking from left to right trying to find something she’d recognize. But the “hola”s from home, the kisses on...
View Articleunquantifiable growth
I like to quantify. I like magnitudes and metrics. It’s incredibly easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept, money earned and spent (mostly spent). In fact, I often conflate...
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Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter
I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo. 01 Pappalardo is a gigantic course 2 lab/workshop that fills the bottom of building 3. It's also where a lot of course 2s live when...
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A hack, for cap 🇺🇸
Avengers: Endgame opened the weekend before last, and with it, so did the new decoration of the MIT dome. Sometime late Saturday evening, or early Sunday morning (it’s always hard to tell with those...
View ArticleClass of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released
Moments ago, at 6PM Eastern Time, we released, via email, our decisions for students who were on the wait list for the Class of 2023. If you did not receive this email, you should check your spam or...
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yeeting classes
ever take a class that inspires one of these lists? things I could be doing instead of this class: reading The New Yorker talking about reading The New Yorker so everybody knows I’m an intellectual who...
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Somewhere in between
This semester has been weird for me. On one side I am for all intents and purposes I am a junior, a 2020. I will not be graduating until 2020, my degree will say 2020, and for the most parts my day to...
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a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters
I spend several minutes in and around Building 68 elevators most days of the week. Often the elevators are where I find out about cool talks that are going to happen, see below. Those posters are...
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just another manic wednesday
i really loved joon’s everyday post, so here is my own unnecessarily detailed day! watch as i stumble my way through like sixteen hours without ever leaving a ~0.04 km^2 area. dis boi long, so buckle...
View ArticleTeaching at MIT
As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I’ve been reflecting on how I’ve spent my time outside of class. Of the various activities I have tried here at MIT, teaching has stood out...
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Finals Week, Minus Finals
It’s finals week. However, there’s a lot going on besides final exams. This blog will be updated over the course of the week the things that are going on! Not everything is all that interesting (in...
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I Met John Waters
On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church. The First Parish in Cambridge hosted a Q&A book-signing with cult star and cultural icon John Waters. I love his movies and what...
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11 / senior spring
to set the mood: episodes – mishegas here are some photos I took on a warm sunny day warm sunny days were rare this semester rainy, cold days made it more bearable to hole up in the library or in lab...
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some things my eyes saw recently
I have seen much in these past weeks. Here is a small selection: The weather on campus turned beauuuutiful this week (just in time for finals and my leaving…) and I haven’t been able to resist...
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18.600 poetry
dedicated to 18.600, a.k.a. Probability and Random Variables, which I took this past semester. special thanks to: Brice H. ‘19, for your endless patience and generosity, & Ivy L. ‘20, who said, I...
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my year in music, volume 2
almost a year ago (wow how has it been that long), i made an extensive, fangirly post about how much i love spotify and its playlist making features. i am happy to report that spotify has only...
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