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Blog / MIT Life
can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall
investigation. I can, however, take a guess: it’s having 24/7 access to some of -
Blog / MIT Life
[Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26
/watch-what-happens-when-pumpkins-are-tossed-off-a-24-story-building/. So I did do a lot of cool stuff this past -
Blog / UROP & Other Research
We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square
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… -
Blog / People & Identities
in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace
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,… -
Blog / Challenges
transitions memories of first snow
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… -
Blog / Miscellaneous
★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023
of blue tape, and I’ve kept this stuff in my backpack 24/7 for years -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me
EC REX party before its 2023-24 renovation)[/caption] MIT was a great -
Blog / Athletics
walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek
This past Sunday, at 4 AM on the side of U.S. Highway 1 on Badger’s Island in Maine, along with Nathan S. ’25 and Jonathan H. ’25, I took my… -
Blog / Residential Life
four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales
It’s work week at tΞp!16 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… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!
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)… -
Blog / Personal Projects
in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland
Magically eduroam24 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,… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"
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… -
Blog / How to Human
feeling old and coming home
I spent the last two weeks of IAP abroad. I had thought about applying for GTL,28 global teaching labs, a MISTI program that places students in schools abroad to teach… -
Blog / Miscellaneous
every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them
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,… -
Blog / Classes
writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard
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… -
Blog / Challenges
difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall
When I started senior fall, I was taking a course load of 6 classes.40 I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a horrifically cursed system of units, where… -
Blog / Classes
18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!
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… -
Blog / Classes
plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762
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… -
Blog / Classes
the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again
“It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone, as I hurried down the Infinite and out into the cold. “Junior year is your hardest…