living the sloth life
most MIT students i’ve spoken to, and probably most college students these days, feel as if they’ve lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the sophomores and freshmen have never experienced “normal”...
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snapshot diary
1/3/22 The sentences just didn’t seem to flow as I attempted different potential blog concepts. I had ideas, but none came out smooth. They were choppy, disjointed, or I simply did not like them. Of...
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[Guest Post] Rush Course 12
“What’s course 12 again?” That’s a question I deal with a lot when people ask my major. Course 12 is Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of the smallest majors at MIT,...
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act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I would lay there in bed, words and thoughts spinning around my head without pause. Often, I would simulate conversations with people...
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The joys of web development
Two years ago, I wrote a blog post saying Web development probably isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But JavaScript really doesn’t vibe with me, and thinking about...
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a conversation with my mom at 1 am
On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive: ten, twenty feet of towering spiny cactus. They dot the desert mountainsides like trees. I got the tattoo to remember the desert....
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a few months ago i learned about several instances where staff at various high school programs abused their staff positions to insert themselves into specific students’ social lives and become friends...
View ArticleJack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing
I try and tell myself that I’ve overcome imposter syndrome, and, in some ways, I have. I have no doubt in my mind that I’m thriving at MIT. I love my classes, I have great mentors, I love my jobs, I...
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bored in iap
winter break is nice and all, especially when it runs over into iap and i have nothing much to do. but with nothing to do, i’m getting kinda bored. so i’m writing this blog post. (how does it feel to...
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30 questions with my roommates!
This is my first IAP.17 Independent Activities Period, which runs throughout the month of January I also got hit with a case of writer’s block, so I went through at least five separate drafts before I...
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This IAP, I was originally supposed to take an MIT class called Spanish Incubator, where I would study Spanish poetry and literature in the ever beautiful Madrid, Spain. However, obviously, due to...
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*john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is—
Here’s the thing, I’m usually very lucky on flights. I’m the epitome of the “arrives late to the airport; makes it on the plane anyway” person. 01 Is that a type of person? I don't actually know......
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last semester, aside from doing work for the classes i was enrolled in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of...
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Cleaning
It’s been a little while since I’ve blogged, which is partially because I’ve been telling myself that I don’t need to blog at any given moment, but mostly because I haven’t had any decent ideas. At...
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Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later
This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery Hunt 2022, which are unmarked. This post has spoilers for some puzzles, which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a...
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looking at old journals
I’ve been reading my old journals this winter break, thinking about the person that I was two years ago, the ways she’s changed and grown and carried on. I wrote a lot while I was living out of my car,...
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IAP trip to the natural history museum!
MIT’s Independent Activities Period is cool because campus has lots of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for — but it’s also cool because there’s so much more time to do the...
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this blogger does not exist
A reader of the blogs emailed CJ the following, which CJ then forwarded to me: i remember your posts (college apps, haiku) about robo-CJ, and I wondered if it might make sense to try using a Cycle-GAN...
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The future isn’t the answer
tw: extensive discussion of anxiety, panic attacks; mentions of depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and is not a substitute for professional advice. — Every day we...
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how to make a minecraft bot
This last month, I was a micro-intern on the Semantic Machines team at Microsoft and got to work with Minecraft. I learned some cool things about language models and AI bias! Step 0: Getting the...
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