about our classes!)"]spending-most-of-the-hours ... bus tour, since I was jetlagged. It’s only a three hour difference, but ... CPU (i.e. your laptop) it could take ~15 hours. But on GPU, that time
every hour of the weekend, causing even the most fervent Course 8 ... @ Theta Xi
After wandering Boston lost for the better part of an hour, our ... few hours blurred, but I'm fairly certain I toured East Campus in that
mementos high school has been on my mind, lately. it’s been almost five years, and only now do i feel comfortable dusting off the little box where it lives in…
It’s 9:05am PST. I told myself I’d wake up past 9:14, but either due to stress or due to a (relatively) healthy sleep schedule my senior year, I’m up 9…
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…
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)…
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,…
For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On math. Let’s back up a…
This fall, I took 21W.762 Poetry Workshop with Ed Barrett, a popular class amongst bloggers. 21W.762 was by far the most easygoing class I’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d…
Have you ever wanted to feel happier and thought, hey, maybe if I eat a few lasers for dinner today, things will be better? No? Because you should.20 please do…
The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of confusing, especially considering how many different visualizations there are possible.24 It's important to note how I am defining…
I’ve been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in Copenhagen that I haven’t tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav maga,…
I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm room.36 I am actually sitting in a coffee shop in Arizona, finishing this blog many months later, because I got too hosed…
The MIT Monologues performed last weekend. MITMo is an offshoot of the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, but all of our monologues are written by current or past MIT students,…
Last summer, Kidist and I wrote about our experience with Infinite Magazine, MIT’s fashion and design publication. Since then, little has changed, but a lot has happened. Kidist is still…