My friend Eric recently wrote a blog post about isolation at Harvard that resonated with many readers. Several people have mentioned similar experiences at their own universities—student populations filled with clout-chasers, dispassionate…
This is my fourth (and last) post like this. See 2019, 2020, 2021.
Things I read for class
These are all taken from 21W.765 Interactive Narrative.
Going for a Beer (1100 words). Content warning: domestic abuse
Recently, my friend rejected several people who were interested in him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and these women had no obvious dealbreakers that…
It's been—checks watch—two weeks since I last posted, which is a week's gap longer than usual. Oops!
As part of 21W.765 Interactive Narrative, we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style
On Friday, I watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, a movie where a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might’ve appeared had she made a different…
This last month, I was a micro-intern on the Semantic Machines team at Microsoft and got to work with Minecraft. I learned some cool things about language models and AI…
tl;dr Today I’ll be answering your questions about MIT portfolios in the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I’ve compiled some of my thoughts on…
I decided this summer was the summer I’d get my life together, once and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of confusion and unease…
In August I celebrated my four year workiversary03 🍰 as the in-house designer on the communications team at MIT Admissions and Student Financial Services. Essentially, in the months when I’m…
I talked with MIT undergrads who make YouTube videos! Read on to learn about their unexpected challenges, college advice, and wild moments. Interview answers have been edited for brevity. Give…