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[guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog
massachusettsian". (shoutout DEAPS '23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the ... sophomore double majoring in [annotation note="Computer science and ... intelligence)."]6 and 18[/annotation] at MIT! In high school, I loved browsing -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…
walking around, with no psets or deadlines in mind.) In the summer after ... : I didn’t go in completely new–I’d attended a wheelthrowing workshop ... down in steps: 1) Pat the clay into a ball and lob it onto the wheel -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Aiden Wrapped a year in review
, and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of ... opinions and create my own war in the comments. My biggest issue with "end ... important that happens in December. But, I refuse to break a trend and -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys
I mentioned it in a previous blog, but this semester I took a class ... ’s taught by Professor Joe Maurer, one of the most knowledgeable people in the ... be in the social sciences (or something like that). This class counted -
Blog / Events
2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!
Stark, the John Harvard statue, and soon, my classmates. In the several months leading up to Premiere, RingComm had been moving in silence. standing on business, even. working on the ring design in private. In order -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues
number of reasons, I really like how this turned out. In this piece, I talk ... resulted in "weird" conflicting feelings I think are interesting to hear about in a performance piece. I didn't include the numerous amazing and -
Blog / Challenges
Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT
boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... , which I framed and padded with my winter coat. Then, in a thick black ... 02139. My flight was set to leave in the morning from the B terminal of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Senior Spring a little life update
Finally, finally, I’m in my last semester of undergrad. I need three ... readings, in-class discussions, and essays). I really like Prof. Campbell ... suck less. In general, I really like taking public policy classes. I -
Blog / Events
1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute
you may undergo a process of re-adjustment in your place of origin ... for so long that you have it all figured out. One week in, I was back ... ?"]first midterm[/annotation] in 7.012 this week. I spent over 5 hours in the shop -
Blog / Academics & Research
Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general
academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT ... largest Course 6 class: some fill 26-100 and have to be live-streamed in ... Programming in Python, first quarter of 6.00) and 6.0002 (Introduction to -
Blog / Challenges
Unity
. Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding school in the country’s capital. Mirroring Nigeria’s religious demographic ... headed by our religious studies teacher. For these six years in a cozy but -
Blog / Academics & Research
Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few
, especially in the context of limited resources. Limited memory, limited ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of numbers in some random order (say 3, 19, 2, 17, 14, 4) and I wanted you to -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings
We’re sitting in my room doing pretty much nothing, because I guess we’re lame, or because there’s not much to do in the first place. It’s a Friday night, but campus is quiet in the summer. My door is open -
Blog / How to MIT
“Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz
to Learn at MIT. It's about - surprise! - learning to learn in the MIT ... - are general to all those interested in enhancing their education ... first semester at MIT was pass or no record, I was in real danger of -
Blog / Personal Travel
Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.
't even write about everything that happened in excruciating yet charming detail like I usually do in my blog entries; rather, I'll just discuss the most interesting events and you can fill in the rest with your overactive -
Blog / Community Projects
Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince
both as a creative outlet for students interested in the culinary arts as ... likely as simple as noodles slathered in chili flakes and green onions, a ... . My love for food, this desire to cook — I found myself in the middle of -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three
seemed to be every dorm but the one I was slated to live in for the next ... I had individual friends in Maseeh, I’d figured, dorm culture wasn ... came out in May. However, after getting to campus and dancing, having my -
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It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist
I don’t believe in quantum physics. Yes, I know that all the math ... real. I simply refuse to believe in such strange, unintuitive physics that I ... mechanical). And I suppose every chemical reaction in my body keeping me alive