Some numbers from this semester: Academic week: 5 Age: 19.0 Times I’ve cried over classes: 2 (surprisingly) Smoothies made: 12 COVID tests taken: 11 Times I’ve been locked out: 3 (Unique) cats…
“His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. There’s vomit on his sweater already, mom’s spaghetti. He’s nervous about opening the MIT decisions portal already.” Eminem About 2 separate…
I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and…it sure has been A Week™. Freshmen aren’t invited back to campus this semester, but I’m renting an…
What will life be like next week? The week after that? 6 months from now? Does anyone pretend to know? One of the few things that I know with certainty…
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…
My old computer and I had a complicated relationship. We spent three years together, and they were three of the most formative years of my life. I bought my computer…
Something unexpected has happened with my classes this semester. Up until this point, my homework has been pretty predictable: read some lecture notes, do a pset, repeat. This semester, none…
Bonjour de la France! Photo credit: Rebecca Grekin. I’ve spent the last two weeks in Paris with an MIT program called JSF—January Scholars in France. The students of JSF 2018…
MIT has A LOT of graduation requirements. Most colleges have some sort of breadth requirement. MIT, being a technical school, has a weighty 8-class humanities minimum (the Humanities, Arts, and…
You’ve probably heard the oft-repeated MIT adage about having to choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that there’s a way to balance the…