Author Archives: alixiy

my internship has been going well! recently i shipped several features; it’s pretty amazing how fast our development cycle. usually code i write at the start of the week makes it into production at the end of the week. outside of work, i am consuming various comestibles (food—i learned this word recently) and exploring variousContinue reading “various comestibles and locales”

this past weekend i went to boston calling, an annual music festival hosted in Boston. i saw: (friday) part of HAIM part of RÜFÜS DU SOL Avril Lavigne part of Nine Inch Nails (saturday) – none – we were going to see the strokes but they canceled at the night before due to covid. thenContinue reading “boston calling and other thoughts on music”

i started my internship on monday! i’m doing frontend web dev for a mit music-tech startup. so far, every work day has started with a short stand up meeting on zoom (since it’s a virtual internship), and then short dev sync meeting. during these meetings, everyone shares what they did the previous day, what theyContinue reading “tea cake and typescript”

i’m going to try to blog weekly this summer, just to keep a record of what i am doing. the school year technically hasn’t ended yet (exams are still going on), but i finished my one and only final last friday. so, this is my first week of summer! today i took the red lineContinue reading “hot udon and hot thoughts”

the spring semester of my freshman year at mit started last week. here are some of my plans for the semester: i. classes cc.802: physics ii, aka electricity and magnetism. this is a mit gir, so i wanted to get it out of the way while i’m still a first-year concourse student. i’m also excitedContinue reading “spring semester starts!”