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Remembering Woodie Flowers
Earlier today, FIRST — an international youth organization dedicated to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics competition — announced that its cofounder, MIT Professor Woodie...
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How to Survive a Tough Semester
My schedule this semester is, to put it kindly, pretty challenging.01 alternatively: horrendous Because I switched majors, I’m currently taking both the course 16 sophomore core classes and the junior...
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I Picked My First Apple
MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today, and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful...
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bursting the MIT Bubble
college is supposed to be a stepping-stone to adulthood, where undergrads can attempt to be functional human beings an environment conducive to trial and error. we can turn in our psets barefoot and...
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a most beautiful camping trip
It’s pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the Indigenous People’s Day long weekend (not just one extra day but two! what luxury!!) to go on fun trips and retreats. On Friday, my...
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i dropped os 🎉
last thursday night was pretty stressful, trying to finish the operating systems lab with the precious few late hours left that i’d had — i’d even started the lab early this semester, even gone to...
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“Take care of yourself.”
trigger warnings for mentions of depression, EDs, and anxiety I don’t quite know where to start with this post. In fact, I’ve rewritten it so many times that there are, like, 4 different drafts of it...
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A half semester told through paper
Here’s a picture of (almost) all the paper I’ve used at MIT so far, halfway through the first semester:01 also known as the first quarter, gasp I am too Hosed02 the (usually temporary) state of...
View ArticleA Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh
Sunday, October 6th 12:00 PM: I wake up. When I pick up my phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I planned on waking up at ten at the latest, but both my and my roommate...
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quiz: what halloween candy are you?
just for fun! What colleges are you applying to? I have like forty on my list, including this one obscure school in Antarctica but it has a good penguin department and idk maybe I’ll major in that not...
View ArticleWhere I Call Home
With Parent’s Weekend coming up, I thought I’d reflect a bit on the world I came from and how I ended up in this strange little bubble on the other side of the country. I lived in a one story house in...
View ArticleOn identity
One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can tell you their interests, or their hobbies, or where they’re...
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A Fashion Free For All
On Friday, October 18th, the MIT Women’s League hosted their 24th Annual Fall Fashion Free-For-All, an event where MIT undergraduates can come in and get clothes for absolutely free. From formal wear...
View Articlemy application essays
It’s been four years since I applied to MIT, and while I’ve been irrevocably changed in many ways (my meme game has improved exponentially), I am sadly still 5’2″. That’s 157 cm, for the 95.7% of...
View ArticleRobo-CJ writes a college app
I’m procrastinating on doing psets, so I trained GPT-2, a neural network that’s frighteningly good at writing, on my old blog posts. And then I made this AI write college essays. Quotes None of these...
View ArticleFor those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions
As the November 1 Early Action deadline approaches, we have been receiving many emails from understandably anxious applicants whose applications, educations, and most importantly lives have been...
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Parametric Cooking
In the world of design, there’s this idea of parametric design: designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling. Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a...
View ArticleDon’t Change
I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this letter may be of benefit to some current student, or some...
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diversions
i have no less than three different drafts for blog posts stewing sadly in my wordpress at this current moment, but have not had any time to put any thought into them, which should give you an idea of...
View ArticleThe Waiting Game
A year ago today, I was anxiously crouched over my laptop on the living room floor, rapidly typing up my last MIT essay twenty minutes before that glorious 12AM EST deadline. I remember the frantic...
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