on fitness, health, and food
content warning: mentions of calorie counting, vague eating disorder related things, body image, body weight, physical appearance My relationship with food, health, and fitness has always been rocky. I...
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tetacats
For context, Tetazoo is the name of the cat friendly hall that I live on, and we currently have four furry residents.05 and an unspecified number of residents who identify as furries Within on campus...
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aquaporin adventures
The Problem: A reviewer went “You guys did things while assuming that cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?” The Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells?...
View Articleoh, the crash
As evident from my last blogpost, I’m doing a lot and it’s taken a toll on me. So much so, in fact, that I’ve finally crashed. So I have COVID, but there is some sick part of me that is relieved that I...
View ArticleSemester Two
Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day, and if I wanted to write, I would. If I wanted to spend an hour commuting to a new location to write, I would. I had time to do it....
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Visiting the Museum of Science
My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth...
View ArticleLies in MIT, lies about MIT
One. It was a lie that made me choose MIT. I was told, and I believed it, that MIT isn’t that academically intense; that it’s only as hard as you want it to be. That most people don’t actually take six...
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weld your own bike
Hi everybody! I was busy this IAP,01 IAP, for y'all readers who haven't memorized all the acronyms at this unholy institvte, stands for Independent Activities Period, and takes place for all of...
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New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops)
I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this post, but something about letter formats feel the most honest and the most true to what I do. I started with the actual letter I wrote...
View Articlein transit
I love traveling alone on public transportation. I like staring out the window watching the cold concrete walls zoom by as I just sit. I’ve always liked just sitting in whatever vehicle it may be. I...
View Articleinto the pi day verse
MIT Regular Action decisions will be available online Monday, 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 Articleignorance
i set up alarms too early than too late. an alarm that’s too early, you can hit snooze on. you can keep hitting snooze until you need to wake up. the analogy is that when there’s something i’m alarmed...
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on a stage in black and red
The MIT Monologues performed last weekend. MITMo is an offshoot of the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, but all of our monologues are written by current or past MIT students, about experiences we’ve...
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tetacats
For context, Tetazoo is the name of the cat friendly hall that I live on, and we currently have four furry residents.11 and an unspecified number of residents who identify as furries Within on campus...
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aquaporin adventures
The Problem: A reviewer went “You guys did things while assuming that cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?” The Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells?...
View Articleignorance
i set up alarms too early than too late. an alarm that’s too early, you can hit snooze on. you can keep hitting snooze until you need to wake up. the analogy is that when there’s something i’m alarmed...
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on a stage in black and red
The MIT Monologues performed last weekend. MITMo is an offshoot of the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, but all of our monologues are written by current or past MIT students, about experiences we’ve...
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Creating the MIT-verse
If you haven’t seen this year’s pi day announcement video yet, please do! Angela ‘24, Karthik ‘22, Emily ‘22, and I spent who knows how many hours working on it starting from last fall, throughout IAP,...
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Crafts for Ukraine~
This is, admittedly, a kind of quickly written post, but I wanted to write something about the crisis in Ukraine, and stuff that I’ve been seeing happening on campus as a result of it. As we already...
View ArticleOpen Thread: Not Admitted
It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” – Guts...
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