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stories and data visualizations about being an MIT student

view 35 posts on the MIT Admissions website
GitHub repository of data visualizations

(taking a hiatus from posting while on my gap year)

my favorite posts:

Gap Year, Week 1

08.31.20 • my plans for a year away from MIT during

My Major, Course 6-9

08.28.20 • computation and cognition

dormspam-the-game (Part 2)

08.15.20 • may the data be ever in my favor

dormspam-the-game (Part 1)

08.13.20 • wits, skill, and te teeniest amount of luck

Filling an Empty Nest

08.10.20 • my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

A Late Recap of IAP 2020

08.06.20 • externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

5 Historical MIT Videos

08.06.20 • looking back on what we left behind

Regrade Request Analysis

08.03.20 • points, please?

22 Tales from tEp

07.31.20 • strange sights and stranger delights

Harvard Friends, Part 2

07.29.20 • finding my quarantine dream team

Harvard Friends, Part 1

07.28.20 • a cross-registration love story

Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis

07.27.20 • quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

Exodus from Cambridge

07.22.20 • in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition

07.21.20 • a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom

07.20.20 • we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

Teaching at MIT

05.16.19 • we live and we learn and we teach

Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019

04.10.19 • i'm entirely serious

Bad Ideas Weekend 2019

02.03.19 • good times

Green Building Challenge

01.31.19 • hex wins third place!

Adventures of a Morning Person

01.14.19 • rise and shine

Seven Early Evenings

12.03.18 • it was a good week

Confusion, by the Numbers

11.24.18 • my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

One Month of Baby Steps

09.26.18 • my feet hurt

the history of AI and computing, from the pages of Computerworld magazine

In 1967, Patrick J. McGovern’s International Data Group launched Computerworld magazine. As an intern at the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, I’m combing through thousands of archived issues of Computerworld to highlight the most exciting advancements in AI and computing over the last 50 years and launch a new series of stories called The Pages of Tech History.

Check out the series:

read online

tales from the kitchens of MIT students

MIT has a strong and unique undergraduate cooking scene. As the Writing Director of MIT’s food magazine Chop Stir Hack, I cultivate and synthesize stories from the kitchens of MIT students.

Stories coming soon!

previously

stories intersecting the sciences and humanities

In my freshman fall at MIT, I wrote a story called “The Life-Saving Typhus Epidemic” for MIT Chroma, a student magazine highlighting the intersection between the sciences and the humanities.

read “The Life-Saving Typhus Epidemic”
Illusion (MIT Chroma, Vol. 3)

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