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Blog / MIT Life
Pictures of me
One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some pictures of myself. I don't have that many pictures of myself, and most of ... . But I'll put some on here anyway. Some of them have appeared on here -
Blog / MIT Life
The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…
This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... New Hampshire, of course. Now telling you the destination without ... unmarked Toyota Matrix to New Hampshire. All I remember of the drive was -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.
. The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off the shelf because it looks kind of cool" library trips. Linguistics is now my new favorite topic. I read The Unfolding of Language: an -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!
While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the ... topic of winter coats -- a logical move given that it was fairly chilly ... cold, their thorough line of reasoning being that coats made one less -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~
, arrangement, aesthetic, and content of stickers. It's true, you can tell a lot ... , but was made into a red/green image to spite the large number of color blind residents that used to live on Beast. I'm incredibly proud of my -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition
(This is the second half of the Art of East Campus series. The first part can be found here!) My first and lasting impression of the standard ... of its interior, the magnitude of how different EC is from normal -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
train of thought on feeling deeply
A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.
. Tuesday: I did have a lot of white space on Tuesday, but I also went to the Society of Women Engineers event as well as the HackMIT Git seminar. (Free ... : One of Petey’s former students came in to give a talk about his work at -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend
You're flipping through the TV channels, bored out of your mind ... ". a parody of Animal Planet This week on MIT Planet, we look at three large hackathons of the fall season. Hackathons -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.
cans of Red Bull. In tooling, in frats, in lectures, in hacks. In ten ... spam. Seasons of spam Seasons of spam Ten thousand thirty-two hundred ... thousand thirty-two hundred eighty semi-hours How do you measure the life of -
Blog / About Decisions
The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.
In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at -
Blog / How to MIT
The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel
swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... . Puddles of water sprayed up onto my backpack, and I wondered if I would be ... moved onto the written portion of the test, where I assigned -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?
So the other day at work, I was sitting at the bottom of one of the water slides. And I was bored out of my mind. There were about 3 people in the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18
as our own personal Riri Williams, sent me a copy of a new video she ... pair of heels on when I was 6. Maybe even younger. I charged into my ... buckled and I knocked over a jewelry box. The clatter of pearls and gold -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC
I'm a proud resident of Burton-Conner, a lovely dorm with nine floors of varying cultures. The dorm is being renovated starting next year ... .."][hopefully][/annotation] be moving back in as a senior, the dorm won't be the same. Some of the -
Blog / Events
Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.
small amount of work done, but a pretty large amount of good memories, so I thought I would share some of the things I did. Who says MIT students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who -
Blog / How to Human
end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It
DONE (sans my physics final next week rip lol) The last couple of weeks ... same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I honestly welcomed the onslaught of final projects and exams since it made me -
Blog / Academics & Research
IAP of Coding time to catch up
, for the surprising amount of support and encouragement over the past few ... inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do ... couple hours about the unbridled stresses of life and then hitting publish -
Blog / Challenges
Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.
So I'm sick right now. Again. It's some lovely combination of fever, nausea, and other TMI that I'll spare you the details of, but basically, I ... 's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by