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Alive and Kicking
Wouldn’t it be cool to try something new? A new sport, perhaps? Or, maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a mediocre manner? Coming into MIT, I thought about this a...
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summer 2021
For the past seven weeks I’ve been living in Honolulu, Hawai’i with my friends. We chose Hawai’i because it was close to my family and my family actually grew up here so it was familiar for them! It...
View ArticleI (don’t) want the summer to end
I don’t want the summer to end. I don’t want to pack the rice cooker and carry my laptop through campus; don’t want to fold my sheets all neat and cram them in my suitcase. I don’t want to leave...
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a week of summer
This summer has been busy, this summer has been full. I’ve been writing, and working, and meeting many people. I want to preserve it, like a flower pressed between pages. Here’s a snapshot of a week:...
View Articleask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything!
Hi blog readers! It’s been a few months since I’ve graduated, a time filled with road trips, starting to rock climb climbing, hanging with friends, refreshing some of my math knowledge, incredibly...
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homecoming
When I was younger and went to Disneyland weekly,01 Yes, weekly. My family had an annual pass since we lived close to Anaheim and it was cheap at the time so to entertain my three year old self and my...
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back in east campus, the sequel
these past two years have been wild. here’s all the times i’ve moved: august 2019: → ec march 2020: ec → baker august 2020: baker → ec november 2020: ec → simmons february 2021: simmons → ec june 2021:...
View ArticleWhat do you want?
I normally start off all my information sessions01 spoilers! by saying some form of “I believe in my heart that MIT is a great place to go to school, but I also recognize that it’s not a great place...
View Articleconversations with friends
m: i’ve been having a lot of trouble blogging lately so i’m thinking of doing a blog that’s just like, conversations i’ve been having with friends that would just be selected excerpts from my text...
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Rain by any other name
lagi na lang umuulan (it’s always raining) Ambon. The Philippine languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light...
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what I did this summer
In third grade, my parents sent me away to sleepaway camp for two weeks. I had a pretty good time, but I was a picky eater and hated the food, so I didn’t eat much. When I got home, they measured me,...
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As a kid, I only moved once.01 twice if you count going from Los Angeles to Tucson when I was three I was twelve. My big sisters were excited about the new house, but I wasn’t. I liked the house we...
View Articledating while asian
In high school, the boys didn’t like me. A friend suggested that perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of Portland, Oregon, the whitest major metropolitan area in the...
View ArticleThe First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live
I’m writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2026 is now live. You can access it here. You can review the dates and deadlines for...
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ungestalt
there’s this psychological concept, gestalt, the name of which comes from the german word for “shape” or “form”. the famous example is kanizsa’s triangle. this single figure, in isolation, looks like...
View Articletoday is my birthday
i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly 2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play august by Taylor Swift on repeat. As I grow older, I find that...
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[joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt
introduction CJ: Gods, how did this start again? Alan: Are we really doing another conversational-style joint post? CJ: There’s literally no other way we know how to write a joint post. Alan: …ok. So,...
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The fall semester has just started, and the 2025s have poured onto campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of them are still bubbling with questions about their dorms, all...
View Articlethe last twenty days
One year ago, before sophomore year started, and before I became a blogger, I was REX14 REX stands for Residence EXploration, where we welcome first-years to the dorms around campus chair for Next...
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this summer
It’s September, school has started, and I know that before long I’ll get sucked into the ridiculous whirlwind that is this school. I’ll get busy with classes, and clubs, and grabbing lunch at the stud...
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