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Your first last day
One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very little, oddly enough. Sure, there’s that vague feeling of...
View Articlemy freshman year playlist
music is really important to me. i swear to god, without Spotify, i would be nothing but an empty husk *dramatic sigh* making and curating playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to...
View Articlerelearning what i know now
Since January, I’ve been having a sort of crisis about my place at MIT. I realized I’ve been learning wrong my entire life, or at least when it came to academics. Throughout high school, you see, I was...
View Articlei walk through campus and say stuff
Behold. I attempted to vlog. I was bored and the weather outside was nice, so I thought I would go around MIT and take a video of myself staying stuff I guess. I’m surprised there aren’t more of these...
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Procrastination in the Time of Corona
It’s been about ten days since I came home from MIT after the great COVID-19 ensued. A lot of people have been saying this, but this week has felt like the longest week ever. I think it’s mostly...
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Murals of Burton-Conner
I’m a proud resident of Burton-Conner, a lovely dorm with nine floors of varying cultures. The dorm is being renovated starting next year, and although I’ll [hopefully]03 I really don't know how the...
View ArticleFor the Love of Darties and ChemE
I believe the saying goes “everything was all good just two weeks ago.” Okay, it’s actually supposed to say “one week ago” but it definitely wasn’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn’t...
View Article101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT
My high school life was a cycle of home, school, and church. My parents were relatively strict about sleepovers and hanging out, so most of my friendships were limited to class time and...
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What I’m Up To
Since everyone’s doing these kinds of “what i’m doing ever since my life got turned upside down”, I figured I might join in with the chaos. And hopefully, these things can help you get through these...
View ArticleI moved to Maine
HELLO. So the last three weeks of my life have been absolutely FREAKING insane. As a brief overview, I have (in approximate order): Decided I wasn’t going home Packed up my entire dorm room Walked...
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Cooking in Quarantine
We watch a lot of cooking content. We really like making food, watching it being made, watching animated food being made (particularly in Ghibli movies and Ratatouille), and of course, eating it....
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Distraction News
Classes are happening again and I am not ready. I am looking at the little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up again. People are giving helpful suggestions and input....
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What is a zonotope?
What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the plane, no two of which are parallel. I picked four vectors. In this picture, I drew them all originating from a single point, and...
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since i’ve been home
since i got home 19 days ago, i’ve been… playing the new animal crossing, whose tropical island setting and cute characters and mindless activities and already-brimming corpus of memes has kept me sane...
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keeping interest
For the past week, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do with my life and my time. I’m currently on a track at MIT to pursue EECS (Course 6-2) and Media Studies (CMS). Prior to coming to...
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MIT launches AI Education website
I usually don’t make *official* posts, so I’ll try to keep this one only mildly official even though it is straight up an advertisement. As some frequent readers of the blogs might know, I have a UROP...
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on regression
i’m currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things have been going pretty well—my first week flew by since i had frontloaded all my work to prepare for my boyfriend staying over, but...
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mit bingo!
If you are under the age of 25 (and maybe also if you are over it), you have undoubtedly seen endless bingo memes on people’s instagram/facebook/snapchat stories. For the uninitiated, you will quickly...
View Articlethe one where i talk to ameer
So, let me set the scene for the garden-level Admissions office.03 Some would call it the basement There’s me, in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel, DJ to my left, and right behind him is...
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MINECRAFT MIT!!!
In the week following our last few days on campus due to the COVID-19 outbreak, a group of MIT students came together to build a 1:1 scale replica of MIT in the game Minecraft. And given how dedicated,...
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