one of my labmates has a friend from elementary school who was on the latest season of love on the spectrum. another labmate watched it and told me it was…
In my junior year of high school, I started taking single-variable calculus at my local community college. I began to feel like a real college student (at least, for a…
As if someone flipped a switch, this year’s unnaturally warm autumn has abruptly given way to winter. It’s the cold air stinging my airway, how it’s always dark out after…
My favorite poi spinning pattern is the four-petaled antispin flower. If you do it neatly, it traces out the path parameterized by these equations: x = cos(t) + 3/4 cos(-3t)…
I spent the last two weeks of IAP abroad. I had thought about applying for GTL,22 global teaching labs, a MISTI program that places students in schools abroad to teach…
I took two classes at Harvard! I wrote down my first impressions, and now, upon leaving, I have a few more reflections — mainly that exposing myself to different perspectives…
This fall, I took 21W.762 Poetry Workshop with Ed Barrett, a popular class amongst bloggers. 21W.762 was by far the most easygoing class I’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d…
call to adventure Gandalf’s mark on Bilbo’s door also known as the inciting incident Some friends and I were sitting on the floor of MG’s room. I was browsing email…
Alan and I have been taking a class together this semester: 21W.740: Writing Autobiography and Biography. I really thought I would enjoy the class. This is due to a few…
In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing! I was in a phase of trying to remember that I am…