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in honor of tau
In honor of blog post number \(6283 \approx 1000\tau\), I’ve decided to do a post dedicated to my favorite number. Here, \(\tau\) (the Greek letter tau, usually pronounced to rhyme with how but some...
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Slay the Spire as metaphor
You may have noticed that I’ve been playing a lot of video games these past few months, like Celeste or Night in the Woods. Well, the one I’ve been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the...
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another year around the sun
It’s my birthday19 yes, this is inspired by Amber’s lovely post a few weeks ago today, and one of my resolutions for this semester is to blog more so I figure it’s as good an occasion as any to get...
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Senior Spring
Finally, finally, I’m in my last semester of undergrad. I need three more classes to graduate, exactly enough to be a full-time student, and I’m taking a fourth for fun and knowledge and hopefully...
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A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring
Classes 7.014 – Introductory Biology; Yet another GIR I am taking. In fact, this is actually the last GIR I need in order to fulfill all my Science GIR requirements! I’m honestly somewhat lukewarm to...
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dear past me
One of the events for the class of 2024’s second round of orientation38 because this is our first time actually being on campus was to write a letter to our future selves with FutureMe, to be...
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whiteout conditions
whiteout conditions is a song by the new pornographers, and it’s about depression. ac newman’s lyrics hit deep, with lines like “so you crumbled, you doubled your dosage / you wanna go, said the...
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[joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute
Shuli: MLK weekend 202101 OK, it’s been a while. Life be like that sometimes ok 02 Alan: oops. was the 41st annual MIT Mystery Hunt and my third time participating. The Mystery Hunt is an enormous...
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[joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute
View Articlecreative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall
In my last blog, I mentioned that since the spring semester hadn’t started yet, that blog wasn’t being posted too late. Unfortunately, now that the spring semester has begun, I am quite late on this...
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things i’ve made and/or consumed
I started this blog post in the summer with the intention of posting it then, but the lists kept growing. Here are some of the things I’ve been doing during the quarantine. ART I’m most comfortable...
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what’s on my wall
Covering my walls in postcards and various other pieces of paper is my preferred method of decoration. I’ve covered pretty much every wall of my room at home, to the point where I started stashing away...
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self-taught dancing: a how-to
I’ve been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I’ve been dancing…unofficially…for much longer. as I’ve mentioned in previous posts, a significant portion of my free time through...
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Figuring out what I want to do with my life
After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and eventually emerge with a PhD in aerospace engineering sometime in the mid-2020s.01 i mean...hopefully lol I’m genuinely really excited...
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coronavirus, one year later
content warning: this post is about covid-19, and the stress and uncertainty that i felt while leaving campus last spring. it’s about painful memories and the sense of loss that i (and others) felt...
View Articlea pi day (decision) story
MIT Regular Action decisions will be available online Sunday, March 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the...
View Articlelist of things that refill my will to live
hugs thinking about hugs remembering that one time in a summer camp two years ago, when we were all crashing andrew’s room and it was the halfway point of the camp and we were all sad about it being...
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busy semesters and how to manage them
I am, by nature, a fairly disorganized person. This sometimes surprises the people I meet, because I am constantly busy, and people expect there to be a method to the madness: maybe Notion,02...
View Articleregression and imposter syndrome
Hi, hello. How are you doing? I haven’t been in the writing mood as of late and it has me feeling really guilty. Blogging used to be something I looked forward to every week and I seemed to be teeming...
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Making the Pi Day Video
Let’s get right to it. What went into making this year’s Pi Day video? Honestly, it all started with a random DM on Instagram. Back in October, I was scrolling through the @mitadmissions feed...
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