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I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year, and it was my first impression of what college life could truly look like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high school, and my parents also didn’t go to college,… Read More

Last Saturday was MIT’s annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch! So many pumpkins! Every year, the MIT Glass Lab sells over two thousand blown glass pumpkins to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why glassblowing classes at MIT are… Read More

Living off campus this year means that I don’t head home until my last on campus Thing, which is almost always late into the evening. I turn on my blinking bike lights, flip my kickstand, and pedal as fast as I can across the Harvard Bridge. There’s a speedometer halfway… Read More

content warning: discussions of roach uwu Roaches are curious little creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach’s ability to thrive in all its… Read More

I’ve always been pretty picky about managing my tabs on my laptop—I don’t like having too many things open, since this inevitably slows down my computer more than I would otherwise like. These days, I use a web browser that automatically archives… Read More

In 2022, Snoop Dogg changed the course of human history by releasing his song “Affirmations”. Today, we honor him by calculating every Spotify artist’s “Dogg Number”. That’s the header for our HackMIT project on the submission website. “Affirmations” has been a running joke among my friends… Read More

This summer, I became obsessed with climbing. Climbing is an exercise in creativity and fitness originating from a very simply defined objective: “Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible”. This flavor of activity reminds me of the mental motions to solving a math or programming problem,… Read More