1Aug 13, 2019
So this summer, I was a mentor for DynaMIT. DynaMIT is a fantastic STEM outreach program for middle school students in the Boston area that helps students explore different fields through activities and experiments. I wanted to share my experience through the lens of 4 kids. 3 of them were 6th-7th graders in my group, […]
2Aug 8, 2019
Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce behemoth Alibaba, plans to step down as Alibaba’s chairman in September 2019. This will end the leadership of a company that has made the former English teacher $37 billion and led not only China but also the world in e-commerce beginning almost two decades ago. After he steps down, Ma […]
3Jul 30, 2019
When I went back home for a mid-summer visit, I was excited to have some time off, to truly, completely relax, possibly for the first time since coming to MIT. My little sister had gotten free rainbow leis and towels from the local Pride parade and had used them to construct a fort in her […]
4Jul 30, 2019
Today, I decided to attend a meeting of something called the Silent Book Club. This was a club where we briefly introduced ourselves before committing 70 minutes to not talking to each other at all. I had never quite understood what the “Anti-social social club” sweatshirts I had always seen around meant, but I figured […]
5Jun 21, 2019
Note: The inspiration for this article and quoted thoughts here were from the CryptoEthics discussion group hosted by the Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative. The first thing that is striking about Libra, announced by Facebook last week, is that it’s the first cryptocurrency created and promoted by a major corporation. From the video on the […]
6Jun 15, 2019
So why would you want to file a patent?