short post definitely my busiest month at mit. i have two sizable final projects due early may, for parallel computing and interactive music systems, and am also trying to wrap up my crypto project in time for one of my teammates to present at devconnect, an ongoing ethereum conference in amsterdam. my team wanted me … Continue reading april update

spoilers for the book siddhartha. edit: also posted on mit admissions i. at the beginning of my first reading and writing short stories (21w.755) lecture last semester, the professor asked the class if we knew what the hegelian dialectic was. he got back a wide variety of responses: one student said it documented the relationship … Continue reading on changing your mind

i am trying to decide how to write posts like these, so please tell me (in dms or comments) if this post is a) boring / not boring b) contains too much info / an acceptable amount of info c) whatever else you want to tuesday i took the amtrak from boston to philly. it’s … Continue reading spring break

also on mit admissions i’ve known for a while that i’m a pretty awful conversationalist. my strengths in conversations are listening and asking questions, but when people ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a badly formed answer. for the longest time i wondered if this was because i … Continue reading speculation

tw: mentions of substance abuse, various diseases, death also on mit admissions i have been much more productive over the past few weeks than i usually am. of course there are many reasons for this: i don’t text as much as i used to, i have no classes on tuesdays and thursdays, i’m trying to … Continue reading there is no time left

a version of this post (with some details omitted for privacy) is on mit admissions spoilers for the movie arrival (and by extension, the novella story of your life) i. people who haven’t been in relationships tend to think the hardest part is initiation. as in, everything would work out if i could get x … Continue reading the happy ending is you

i might post this on mit admissions? probably not though i guess we can start with classes:  molecular basis of infectious disease (7.26) - really fun class where we learn about general principles of infectious disease. every week we have two theory lectures and read one paper to learn about experimental design and practical procedures. … Continue reading things i am doing this semester

also posted on mit admissions some context: web.lab / 6.148 is a web development course offered every january at mit. i took the class in 2020 and was an instructor in 2022; you can find our site here spend dozens of hours reading through code examples, homework assignments, and lecture slides from web.lab 2021. identify … Continue reading teaching web.lab

also posted on mit admissions last semester, aside from doing work for the classes i was enrolled in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was cognitive augmentation (mas.s65), a class on using technology to augment … Continue reading cognitive augmentation

post on mit admissions. this post has been heavily edited to make the writing clearer, with lots of input from chris peterson as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people. for instance, i remember when i was in elementary school, my parents would drop me off at the gym … Continue reading trust