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happy lunar new year
Happy Year of the Tiger! It is my birth year, which means that I have to wear red daily to ward off bad luck. Somebody else asked me today why birth years are unlucky. I do not know why, although...
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day one, six out of eight
09:35. i hobble out of bed and pour myself some milk. there’s a ridiculous amount of snow outside. i pull out some leftover pizza and walk to the kitchen to reheat it. i see some friends from hall....
View Article2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions
View my 2020 resolutions and 2021 resolutions. There were some 2020 resolutions I couldn’t accomplish due to the pandemic, but since the world has adapted since then, I was able to do them! I’ll be...
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22 Hiatus Adventures
Hello dear reader! It’s been a long time since I last posted here. I returned from my gap year last September. I knew I’d changed a lot over my gap year, but my transition back into being an MIT...
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some IAP adventures
During the month of January,23 well, this year the spring semester started on January 31st, but close enough MIT offers an “Independent Activities Period” where students do essentially whatever they...
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sea glass
Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference submission in this blog. Last week19 well it's actually been two weeks at the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my...
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nothing & everything again & again
This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what the bloggers did during their IAP (aka Independent Activities Period, aka a January term but ~quirky~). For me, my senior IAP was an...
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Friday Night, Off-Campus Style
Friday nights are great. Assuming you’re not in one of those classes that has assignments due Friday at midnight,11 truly the worst Friday nights bring the freedom of having no impending deadlines....
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on wordle, french toast, and copyright law
Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to guess a 5-letter word given information about letter locations, and I have been playing it religiously. I have at least 3 separate...
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2024 ring premiere!
The 2024s got their first look at the class ring on Friday! Having a class ring, or Brass Rat, is an integral part of the MIT experience. It’s a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to...
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Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner
the fox will make sense later I want to major in computer science. I have plenty of experience in other fields like biomedical engineering and robotics because I was also interested in those things. At...
View ArticleIntertwined
My sophomore year of high school I ate too many donuts. When I woke up realising my stomach was twisting, I called out instinctively for my parents. They woke up immediately, trailing after me as I...
View Articletired and busy and tired and busy
A couple updates: I quit two of my jobs I’m taking 4 classes and two of them are technicals and two of them are not, but one of the not-technical classes are still a lot of work I am good, I am okay...
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Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape
i’m on the hip-hop dance team Mocha Moves. every February, we put on a show that’s composed of dances choreographed and performed solely by us. the show has 14 dances, 12 of which are created in the...
View Articlezero bandwidth
You know, lately, I’ve been hearing this sound. Everywhere I go, like a tick, tick, tick. — tick, tick…BOOM! (2021) Recently, I’ve had this overwhelming feeling creeping up on me, this slow crescendo...
View ArticleCaring for the body
Content warning: overt sexual content, reference to suicide. Last night I watched the MIT Monologues, formerly known as the Vagina Monologues, a yearly production run by campus group The F-Word. It’s a...
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knot again
Last summer, Kidist and I wrote about our experience with Infinite Magazine, MIT’s fashion and design publication. Since then, little has changed, but a lot has happened. Kidist is still the editorial...
View Articlethe happy ending is you
spoilers for the movie arrival (and by extension, the novella story of your life) i. people who haven’t been in relationships tend to think the hardest part is initiation. as in, everything would work...
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Ring Delivered
In this blog post, I’ll share the saga of the Class of 2022’s Ring Delivery, from its initial conception to its pandemic cancellation to its surprising revival. I’ll also share my experience going to...
View ArticleEating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept
here’s a blogpost from my friend julia! Hey! My name is Julia Pockat and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating disorder awareness week, so I wanted to take some time to share...
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