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Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center, I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a century, for as long… Read More

With all the WiFi problems in 32-123⁠40 One of the big lecture halls in the Stata Center and PE registration website outages, it’s easy to forget nowadays that MIT is a tech… Read More

It’s been—checks watch—two weeks since I last posted, which is a week’s gap longer than usual. Oops! As part of 21W.765 Interactive Narrative, we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau’s classic Exercises in Style. In it are 99 retellings of the same story, each written in a different style, ranging… Read More

dear past me,  I moved in last year on August 17th, a couple days earlier than international students move in.⁠42 you can request an earlier return in case of… Read More

i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of over one billion dollars. this says very little about the internals of the company – there are many examples of unicorns with almost zero revenue (apna’s estimated revenue was… Read More

I have read slightly over 200 pages’ worth of papers this week. I procrastinated 115 of them until the day before I had an assignment due on said papers for 6.UAR⁠51 seminar in… Read More