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Blog / Challenges
lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!
metal. My goals for future projects are to get my hands on group ... times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and ... technicals were the only place to carve time out of my schedule. I learned the -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French
. One morning, we tried to get into the library of the Sorbonne, but were ... (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides ... who are committed to learning French at MIT. You spend two weeks in -
Blog / Academics & Research
‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record
not just because it took two buses, the T, and an hour to get there). I ... millions of nighttime lights. I pressed my face to the window, not quite sure ... awesome Nigerian food—how I missed that!—and looking forward to a wedding -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones
relationship between Peter and Ivan, and I get that Margaret was supposed to ... or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a ... want to avoid arbitrarily ranking critically acclaimed books higher based -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!
for a game set in ancient Rome, but I was ready to get back to the more ... , Metal Gear Solid, and Final Fantasy, just to name a few. Last Thursday ... and dads with small children to local college students to dred -
Blog / Academics & Research
I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.
in Berkeley next year, I thought it might be better to be a little more frugal. Just playin'. But seriously, maybe it's because I only get to eat ... sketchy youth hostels and subsisting mostly on döner. I was planning to live -
Blog / Athletics
‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn
, and one of our freshmen gets so excited after a goal she goes to high ... Hi, everyone! The soccer season has just wrapped up, and I wanted to give y’all a little recap. For starters, it's important to know that -
Blog / Classes
rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated
studying the subject, since I found it was easy to "get by" by just doing the ... have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed to the back burner so I could survive my classes (four technicals, all -
Blog / Academics & Research
Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.
a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the ... . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my ... grade hasn't posted to WebSIS yet, but I'm pretty sure it's an A. I can -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics
Here, we get the minimal pair tama na and tahan na. This is a bit hard to ... get away soon From the memorized scene I want to get away soon Notice ... idiomatic, often meaning "soon". And makawala means "to get away", formed from -
Blog / Summer
turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!
to solve quadratics with origami, use the Axiom of Choice to win ... very hungry and walking to the cafeteria. Suddenly, I was struck by ... , right? I immediately decided it was too difficult a task to actually -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?
To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate ... anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in ... ’t want to have anything to do with some kind of social elitism or strange -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive
"mother"? It’s from the same root we get alma mater and matriculate. It ... from Greek manthanein “to learn”. Another cool word: awanggan “infinity ... vowels are so open, as if the word wants to hang on to your mouth even when -
Blog / Events
DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.
never blogged about it. Well, I'm going to now, because someone asked me ... in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead, I wrote back, dude hang on I'm totally going to blog about this, and -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets
like to collect things that we are too attached to to throw away. We put ... affectionately refer to as our memory mushroom), and when it overflows (which it inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we -
Blog / Admissions
Nerd Camp tales from TDI
? Wait, I thought. You mean I get to come back to camp, and you'll pay me ... to many of you. But it's true) Being a nerd, I did nerd things. I read ... Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)
took me about four hours to get through all of the works on display ... associated with the exhibition that I didn’t get to see. I believe some of them ... Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the -
Blog / Athletics
A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.
fish. Next time, though. By then, it was getting close to 2 in the ... Recap: I survived the last week of February with hit points to spare ... page 2 of my test booklet, and continued to the next round of combat -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT
years now, and this is the only time my parents get to see us perform. You ... feels nice to get back to work. Superheroes Do you ever fall in love ... little has happened, and I’ve been trying to write blog posts about both of