In my junior year of high school, I started taking single-variable calculus at my local community college. I began to feel like a real college student (at least, for a…
In review — it’s been a good year. In reverse-chronological order, I… full sent a project, which was cool No one in my life has heard about this at all,…
This post started as a voice memo, taken during a walk home. Its unpolished, initial form, complete with pauses and rephrasings, is here: https://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/thanksgiving-first-draft.mp3 I had a very difficult time…
As if someone flipped a switch, this year’s unnaturally warm autumn has abruptly given way to winter. It’s the cold air stinging my airway, how it’s always dark out after…
It’s work week at tΞp!22 pronounced 'Xi' like the Greek letter, tΞp is the co-ed fraternity formerly known as tEp. While work week in Greek life systems outside the MIT…
My favorite poi spinning pattern is the four-petaled antispin flower. If you do it neatly, it traces out the path parameterized by these equations: x = cos(t) + 3/4 cos(-3t)…
It’s cold down here, and dark, so I’ll keep this one brief. I’m in the common room, where the radiator is off. The German woman rooming with me tonight voices…
Magically eduroam31 university wifi, typically found at universities, not hostels 20 km from the nearest grocery store is giving me one bar. It actually loads search results and sends email,…
I found one of my old sketchbooks the other day. I’m ashamed that this “old” sketchbook, which I had started in 2019 (that’s four years ago!!), is also my most…
I spent the last two weeks of IAP abroad. I had thought about applying for GTL,35 global teaching labs, a MISTI program that places students in schools abroad to teach…
Reading is one of the few real hobbies I’ve managed to hold onto throughout my time at MIT, not that I have much time to read during the semesters. Still,…
I took two classes at Harvard! I wrote down my first impressions, and now, upon leaving, I have a few more reflections — mainly that exposing myself to different perspectives…
When I started senior fall, I was taking a course load of 6 classes.47 I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a horrifically cursed system of units, where…