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Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)
Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia National Park in Maine. We planned meticulously for the trip – booking the Airbnb months in advance, creating… -
Blog / Academics & Research
MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!
MARC is one of the few conferences people have in their academic career where you should absolutely go whether you consider your research good or not. Because for good food,… -
Blog / How to Food
[Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps
always been a special part of Chemim’s life, and if she had to choose a -
Blog / MIT Life
shifting seasons something reflective
mementos high school has been on my mind, lately. it’s been almost five years, and only now do i feel comfortable dusting off the little box where it lives in… -
Blog / MIT Life
Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?
MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal scene on this campus, you would probably be wrong (very, very, wrong). In the past month,… -
Blog / Academics & Research
If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.
pink in real life.[/caption] The “S” in the subject number means that -
Blog / Miscellaneous
The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.
SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 I primarily use my iPad, SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 to take notes during class. SLP is a tough, no nonsense master of productivity, with a work ethic I admire greatly. Offering me… -
Blog / How to Food
IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho
I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I purchased a meal plan last semester for convenience. I didn’t cook often and pretty much lived off of avocado… -
Blog / Challenges
transitions memories of first snow
This post started as a voice memo, taken during a walk home. Its unpolished, initial form, complete with pauses and rephrasings, is here: https://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/thanksgiving-first-draft.mp3 I had a very difficult time… -
Blog / Challenges
I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!
Obligatory Swim Test Lore: The MIT Swim Test was created in the 1940s after a high volume of drowning-related deaths at war. It’s been around since then, and despite many… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!
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)… -
Blog / How to Human
how to meet curious people
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… -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops
*the footnotes are my current self doing commentary* :p “hey, I’m stealing free food from florey again. do you guys want anything? KN6OQK” “i wann chimken” “what do they… -
Blog / Academics & Research
last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title
113 days. As of yesterday, I am officially a second semester senior. Every minute that passes by feels crucial, like not a second is even to be wasted. I feel… -
Blog / How to Human
hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger
This winter break, inspired by a chaotic night hiking trip in fall,59 Josephine ‘24 and I led our group through the mist after nightfall, ekeing out spray-painted trail signs with… -
Blog / Miscellaneous
every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them
fundamental questions of life. It's slow, meditative, and so, so warm. -
Blog / Classes
checkboxes this semester in a list
things I did: quogs in a ‘metastable state’ spent more time with my wing at next house, each floor is divided into two wings, and each wing has multiple lounges,… -
Blog / Classes
18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!
For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On math. Let’s back up a… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache
heart lay with the study of life, and then I decided to become a computer