Writing
I keep a blog called Infinite Ascent. There’s around two posts a month. You can subscribe via RSS or subscribe via email.
Before that, I wrote over 350,000 words as a blogger for MIT Admissions. You can view all my posts on my author page.
Here’s my favorite posts from each.
Infinite Ascent
i like me better depressed
On wanting, wanting to want, and wanting to want to want.
Python built-ins in Google Sheets
How to turn your Google Sheet to a Jupyter Notebook.
it’s been nine years and i still want out
On my progress with depression and suicidality.
The (real) systematic name of titin
Investigating the origin of English’s purported “longest word”.
If I ever come back
On being away from MIT, and my feelings around visiting.
etymologies
What if the footnotes to your footnotes had foonotes?
actual conversations i definitely had at sparc
An attempt to define a complex summer camp by example.
Clouds over Rochester
Why experiencing my first total solar eclipse (didn’t) change my life.
Crying in the subway
On crying in public, and emotions like grief and love.
MIT Admissions
You don’t have to be a founder
Why being a maintainer can be as important as being a founder.
A Boring Friday
Interactive fiction portraying my typical MIT Friday.
Your last first day
Reflections on beginning my final year in MIT, and where I’m going.
Bring your stuffed toys to class
On the liminality of studying at MIT. Not a metaphor.
demons
A piece about growing up with depression.
The rise and fall of CPW
The history of MIT’s admitted students weekend.
reject modern web design
An April Fool’s Day joke for the blogs.
Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later
A comprehensive look at writing the MIT Mystery Hunt.
To the exclusion of everything else
A post explaining some of the reasons why I chose to go to MIT.
Your first last day
On being in MIT when the pandemic kicked everyone else out.
On identity
On challenging your identity and rebuilding it.