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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT
will also be no rehearsal on Wednesday, February 19. There will be a ... excited to hear this. Two years ago, Fred had also promised a “special surprise” that turned out to be a free week-long trip to the Amazon -
Blog / How to Food
A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!
Between the fall and spring semesters at MIT there is a period ... course), take some classes, or do a mini-internship (called an "externship") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship -
Blog / Challenges
my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"
way back when, i wrote about the mistake of a courseload that i took second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)
hadn't ever used a mill or lathe. I wasn't sure what it meant to tap a hole. Heck, I'd never used a power drill before. But four months later ... and learned how to use fast fabrication methods. And I built a pair of -
Blog / Admissions
How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.
For the past six years or so, I've been a desk calendar addict. You ... , George Carlin, Word-a-Day (that was junior year, when my mom was sure they ... a single word), Sudoku, and so many more. Sometimes I even have two at -
Blog / How to Food
to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi
A couple weeks back, Winnie reminded me that the [annotation note ... speaks Taishanese (a variant of Cantonese) and I picked up impressively ... dumplings” and “trash” and I end up using a pinyin keyboard and Google Images -
Blog / Athletics
A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.
My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful, coordinated, muscular brunette named Ashley. It is held in the T-Club Lounge, a ... , acknowledging that I wouldn't be able to attend that morning; Ashley has a rule -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Always A Toys ‘R Us Kid Poll: Who was your favorite superhero?
Flashback to the days of elementary school: Did anyone else read comic books? Batman was by far my favorite superhero. Poll of the day: 1. Who was yours? 2. What… -
Blog / Personal Travel
i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours
Hi there, it’s been a while! Over the next few weeks, I’ll be ... in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT since the beginning of June. So I decided to take a train from Boston to -
Blog / Challenges
residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive
if you've read any of my blogs, you know that i'm a former resident of Burton Conner, a dorm that is currently under renovation and will be ... "]REX[/annotation] as a representative of my Burton Conner community, the Burton Third -
Blog / Academics & Research
back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing
Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... for middle and high school. I have not been in a public school in almost a decade. I feel like I have been sent to Mars. For one, people at my -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language
If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of ... , getting a dollar for each body pillow I purchase is a rather inefficient way -
Blog / Announcements
PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics
Pandemic, a biology lecture series on the coronavirus that anyone in the world can freely attend. One of my colleagues sent me a notice about ... its own sake and also for a deeper understanding of the present and the -
Blog / Classes
Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality
Oooooooohhhh boy. A new semester has begun! I know this post is kinda ... semester was a bit of a struggle. First of all, I got a little off ... time though, it’s kind of crazy how a student who was pretty much at the -
Blog / Class Projects
2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life
2.009 Product Engineering Processes. A senior capstone class option ... a brand new product by the end of the semester. 1 Unifying theme. This year the theme was Danger, so there was a lot of really cool demos -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals
appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you spell it? A: A “pset” is short for “problem set”, and it is the most ... reputable sources agree on the definition of a pset, there is high variance -
Blog / Events
IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)
a little since I tend to talk about glass-blowing and truffle ... can throw a #sorrynotsorry at me.) One day a week, we meet in the office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of -
Blog / Events
TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's
finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to ... do you tell a high school senior during a surprise phone call on a ... middle of homework. We had a team of roughly 25 students calling students -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours
, It's A Party. For those people taking 2 classes, UROPing, and working, It's A Pain. For Chris M. '12, It's Amazing Pterodactyl. For me, I think it's in between a party and a pain. Maybe something like a picnic