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You might have heard of inktober, a recent phenomenon where artists draw a picture for a different prompt every day in October. This year, one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. ’20, and I decided to do “poemtober,” where we write poems to the inktober prompts. We’re both… Read More

Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about this and helping me think about how to formulate it! I’ve been very contemplative lately. In my first few weeks here I had tons of questions, but they were “easy” ones: how do I register for classes?… Read More

Hello, world. It’s been awhile. Mostly because I’ve been swamped. It’s been a “pset, sleep, blog –– pick two” kind of time, so instead of writing about my life, I’ll do a little show-and-tell.   Half of getting anything done is really just remembering to actually… Read More

TO SET THE MOOD: Constellation Hiraeth – Tomek Kolczynski, Tamar Halperin, Etienne Abelin An adaptive skateboard for 6.810 final project. Spent over 10 hours in lab working on it this weekend with my partner.   For the long weekend, I took it slow, taking time to rest up, take… Read More

In our last post, we mentioned that we were next going to blog about our urops. We recently found out, from one of our supervisors, that we actually cannot blog about our project until the end of the semester because it is *top secret* stuff for now. So,… Read More

MIT is a melting pot of all sorts of people from different races, religions, backgrounds, you name it. It’s an exciting environment to be in, and sometimes in the middle of juggling classes, p-sets, terrifying exams and potentially life-altering decisions like declaring a major, it’s easy to take for granted… Read More

I really like learning languages. And MIT has been a really good place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn’t really something I expected to continue in earnest in college. After coming to MIT I stopped studying languages for three semesters because… Read More