Banjos & Basements: A Brief History of Music at MIT Music has been part of MIT since the Institute’s earliest chapters. By 1884, 23 years after MIT was founded, the…
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…