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.