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FAQ / Academics and research
Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?
subjects outside of the classroom itself. If you're confident that you ... test out of it. It's essentially like sitting the final before the class ... , and you will never exhaust our curriculum of hard, interesting classes. -
Blog / Academics & Research
zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!
one of the things i’m working on outside of class this semester is a ... to produce a zk-snark implementation of an elliptic curve pairing ... of proofs are impossible, but when conducted in the right setting with -
Blog / Challenges
zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going
this overwhelming feeling creeping up on me, this slow crescendo of ... every muscle in my body already sore, regardless of how much physical ... me. It is, of course, that same burnout which I felt just as I began my -
Blog / People & Identities
in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace
parts. I loved the camaraderie of people all grinding to finish their part of the project — there were vital sections of the project that I never ... . Seeing everything come together was so rewarding. I love the feeling of -
Blog / MIT Life
[Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going
wonderful result, reflecting on the midpoint of a journey through MIT as well as a collection of significant places Mitali frequented. I hope you ... . But it’s also a bit of a comfortable spot to do some reflecting and -
Blog / How to Human
Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse
. Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 months ago, when I was struggling to the end of the jobs season without an ... hours[/annotation] of practice and preparation, the stars in charge of determining -
Blog / Admissions
Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters
moved before the memory making parts of my brain could actually store any reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my parents try to feed me coconuts, but this is of questionable veracity. My -
Blog / Academics & Research
Writing is useful for science. Surprise!
the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an ... ; * * * The days of partyboy/astronomer Tycho Brahe reclining in the quadrant he built into the wall of his palace are (regrettably) over. Tycho -
Blog / Uncategorized
Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn
all of this without ever leaving your room. What are you going ... you. What I can do is give you an idea of what's possible using the ... . I can tell you what I did: I learned a lot of math! And I didn't -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/
. Synopsis: (some spoilers for the first hour of the movie) Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess), an incredibly brilliant student at MIT who is capable of rattling ... brilliantly and is ceremonially welcomed into the team by all of the members -
Blog / Events
picture the world my phone's storage space hates me
intersections, parks — evoke moments in the past, or sometimes collections of ... where you took your photos, in the form of a heat map: [carousel image1 ... — indicates a spot of high photo density and a clump of memories. here are some -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Sweet summer song
common carnival Of passions and regrets, And gives the world a glimpse of ... summer has been full of new colors. Last semester was not the best, and I've been rediscovering a lot of beauty which I wanted to share a glimpse of -
Blog / How to Human
We’re Only Getting Older
surprisingly common behavior for lots of people. I couldn’t, really, tell you why this happens; It’s probably some combination of the pressure to be happy ... around the end of January. Unfortunately, this year hasn’t been any -
Blog / Academics & Research
Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!
It’s finally here – the grand finale of the Fredventure! Read part 1 and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of days 7 and 8 rehearsing/performing our music, so half of this blog post -
Blog / Miscellaneous
i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?
471462f4073[/embed] I've been contemplating the future as of late. With just a semester of my undergraduate career left, it's hard not to. Every second of my time seemingly is spent thinking of what will be and I -
Blog / Academics & Research
motivation musings as i look back on the year
On [annotation note="home of the economics department, and the place where I spend most of my time on campus these days"]the fourth floor of E ... , it’s not exactly under-used. Back in April, one of the paper towel -
Blog / IAP
nothing & everything again & again my senior iap
This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... interesting redux of my sophomore IAP, which I blogged about here, and from which I stole the title of this post. Freshman year I was busy taking -
Blog / Extracurriculars
excerpts
I haven’t been doing a great job of blogging this semester for a variety of reasons (grad school is busy, life is hard, writing isn't my ... has things from 2018 I still haven’t followed up on. Oops. So instead of -
Blog / Challenges
regrets about college and the pandemic
good crash course into what kinds of topics I usually think about anyway) one of my favorite quotes does not have a discernible origin. “dead ... wikiquote and other sources have been unable to locate it in any of her