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In the Realm of Giants
This past semester, I’ve been going through the grueling process that plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job,...
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Twenty thousand paper cuts
One. Two weeks ago my phone’s charger suddenly stopped working. I ordered a replacement from Amazon. I accidentally put Baker as the address, because that was where I stayed last summer. When Amazon...
View Articlehalfway there
I live a five-minute walk away from MIT, so I pass campus often. It’s a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of my life as being ‘on-campus and then not,’ but passing other...
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My First Academic Conference
During election week, among all the chaos, I got the opportunity to attend something very cool: my very first academic conference! And also as of this week, I am officially a published researcher!...
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science bowl
I feel like I’ve been involved in science bowl forever. In 8th grade, my middle school science teacher started a team at my school, and I loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of...
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Rate My Setup
Since the end of August, I’ve been living on-campus in Simmons in a double. My room is huge, and I have two sets of furniture, which really means I have two desks. I’m taking two classes this semester...
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sunset/sunrise
I’ve been very busy this semester; this is entirely of my own accord, and, for the most part, I have been managing everything01 I promise that a post about how I’ve been managing is coming at some...
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Packing
It’s Wednesday night. I have about 84 hours left at MIT. 84 hours left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left...
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books I’ve read this year
One of my 2020 resolutions was reading 10 books, and I just completed this goal last week! I think by the end of 2020 I’ll have read a little more than 10 books as I’m in the middle of reading an...
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Unwinding
Recently on @mitadmissions I asked what kind of blogs people wanted to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally destress! Also, this is actually just an excuse for me to talk...
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Books I did read this semester
Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I “did not want to write about books,” but she was wrong. I love books. They are necessary all the time but even more so now. Sometimes we have to dip into other...
View ArticleThe Last Times
At some point, when we got kicked out last March, there were a lot of things that I had done for the last time that I hadn’t realized. My last East Campus party had already passed. It was definitely...
View Articleand i try to find my place
A couple nights ago, I cried as Raymond asked me my deepest desires and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at something, to have my niche. I’ve been struggling a lot in...
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a major road to trouble
Col·lege ma·jors (noun) A term that invokes pain and, as compensation, newfound freedom in class selection For many weeks, I couldn’t think of a good way to write this blog about all the stuff that...
View ArticleA Fall Semester Recap
I’ve really really loved my schedule this year so I thought I’d do a quick recap of how the semester’s gone for me so far since I’ve wanted to talk about my classes for a while but lacked the...
View Articlesocializing over zoom
Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the spring01 like me! submitted their dorm preferences. The actual lottery keeps getting delayed, but the actual process of ranking dorms was an...
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MIT CodeIt
This semester, I joined CodeIt, a student-run organization at MIT where MIT students teach middle school girls and nonbinary students basic programming concepts through Scratch. The last four sessions...
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“I’m vegetarian now!”
This semester I’ve lived in an apartment with three roommates: one omnivore, one vegetarian, and one vegan. I decided on the day we moved in that I would try out vegetarianism, just to see how it went....
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it’s thanksgiving or something
today, of all days, i feel it’s appropriate to begin with a land acknowledgement statement, as adapted from mit’s statement. the land on which i’m writing this post right now is the traditional,...
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I’ve been reading applications
Under cover of darkness It’s that magical time of year: the sun sets at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly alarming amount of sound, and I begin to oscillate between my...
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