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Blog / How to Food
what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost
honest review of MIT dining hall food, sponsored by my lovely [annotation note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a meal plan YIPPEE unlike the majority of my friends. but also lowkey MIT -
Blog / Events
Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.
Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... squeezing past thousands - THOUSANDS - of middle- and high-school kids and ... holding signs. I love slipping out of the human river and into the Bush -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.
five hours of sleep last night, but for some reason I'm awake and feeling ... this before, but my summer is very routine and kind of boring. I have ... ?), and kind of interesting. Here we go! 1) Before Wall-E there were -
Blog / How to MIT
loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process
My dorm East Campus (EC) has a long tradition of radical room ... additional bed posts, after several weeks of being ghosted, I decided to regain control of my space. I would build my own loft! Luckily, all the material I -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…
of you unfamiliar with the Music Cubes, they consist of three cube ... rehearsal? Or maybe they're giant versions of Minecraft note blocks?) Like much of MIT’s brutalist architecture, the exterior doesn’t exactly scream -
Blog / CPW
an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊
lag and low video quality"]livestream[/annotation]showing the Class of ... with the intention of ever posting it later on (i.e. publishing this blog ... 's easy to lose track of time with pretty murals. I promise I end up walking -
Blog / How to Human
B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1
It's been 16 years since the last installment of Burton 1 Cribs, an extensive tour of rooms on [annotation note="For those who don't know us, we're Burton 1, the first floor of Burton Connor! We love the color blue, bones -
Blog / Events
life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????
dancing—which are, of course, fun but it’s really just that. Overwhelming ... where a whole class is together, and this was one of them. It’s fun seeing ... . Everyone wanted a bite out of everyone for photos, which panned out -
Blog / Residential Life
All the 2023 i3 videos megapost
As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising ... and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these ... with the advent of YouTube/Vimeo/etc they are now posted online -
Blog / Uncategorized
Non-Blinding my junior year(s)
upcoming fall. And this is true: most of the classes I am taking are just ... Laboratory in Mathematics 18.966: Geometry of Manifolds II 24 ... 's kind of tiring. But when I look at the list above, I can't imagine -
Blog / Classes
Above Ground now breathe
-- that next big thing that'll finally get me out of this slump of emo ... rather boring. I've been feeling like I'm on the brink of something bigger ... my hands dirty. Thankfully, I have a few of those projects happening -
Blog / MIT Life
[Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead
the same dorm touch, they merge into one! Note: The order of dorms ... link here. (Very) rough counts of windows by dorm (all counted by hand by the wonderful creators of this game 🥲): Random Hall: 96 windows -
Blog / Internships & Externships
i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early
Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT full-time during fall 2020, since I knew I wouldn't get that much out of ... until, at the end, one of the founders asked me how much compensation I -
Blog / MIT Life
Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism
of us speculated back and forth -- would we know the person already ... thought taking a picture of the snack table would make me look like a rube ... passed -- and then the door opened again and a group of people walked in