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Blog / Academics & Research
Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post
Unfortunately I don’t think I will be talking about the duality between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though maybe I will later this… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind
part 1: impact One of my strongest core beliefs is that the answer to the question “what is the meaning of life?” is not “to change the world,” at least… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr
One of my favorite places on campus is the Metropolis makerspace. It’s where I learned how to 3D print, lasercut, weld, and fiddle with electronics. It’s where I realized that… -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
[guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life
[annotation note="cj: speaking is lumia n. '24"]i've[/annotation] known cj for 3.5 years now. though the first 6 months it was very much not closely. of course, that was back when i was a prefrosh and didn't know him -
Blog / Challenges
choosing the abridged version
if objectively speaking i'm unqualified to do so 2.4 -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT
After **quite** the hiatus,21 *Checks watch* wow I was a sophomore last time I posted... yikes it would probably make sense to say what I have been doing and what… -
Blog / IAP
eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day
This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San Francisco. If you haven’t… -
Blog / IAP
eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day
This is part three of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San Francisco. If you haven’t yet, you should… -
Blog / IAP
eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day
This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San Francisco. If you haven’t yet, you should… -
Blog / IAP
eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!
Last week, I took Amtrak across the country, from Boston to San Francisco. Along the eighty-hour journey, I took some notes about what I was up to, what was happening… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide
would go away after March 24th (mid semester) passes and I could take a -
Blog / Challenges
Rules and who sets them
This post includes an in-depth and personal discussion of the November Rule. I recommend these posts for more reading/information on the Rule itself, though I will also be detailing what… -
Blog / Academics & Research
everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession
Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made a bet. I had been telling him about my research interests and my desire to stay… -
Blog / Academics & Research
on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school
I wrote a blog at the end of last summer subtitled “so many different ways to feel lost:” I feel lost on a much deeper level than ever before, and… -
Blog / Events
Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to
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Blog / Personal Travel
childhood and disney world trips
time to 7:30 and arrived at Hollywood Studios at 8:24, 6 minutes before -
Blog / How to Human
a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess
On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive: ten, twenty feet of towering spiny cactus. They dot the desert mountainsides like trees. I got… -
Blog / Challenges
mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT
prelude. I used to be a (slightly) strange child. I once failed a hearing test because I named the pitch of the note being played instead of the ear in… -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge
came into mit. waly n '24 wrote about it in his post about emails. i