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over spring break i met a grad student. we were talking about why they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they said something along the lines of: look at the sandwich...
View Articlei (don’t) want to be alone
one if i had to write a literary analysis on my blog posts, i’d talk about how the strongest ongoing theme is coping with contradictory convictions. how can we believe two things that can’t both be...
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My freshman year is almost over
I have two finals left as I write this, 3.09107 Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. Satisfies the Chemistry GIR. and 7.014.08 Introductory Biology. Satisfies the Biology GIR. I should feel...
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I painted my door!
In my dorm, East Campus, residents are allowed to paint the door to their room. Unlike murals on the walls, which generally have to be approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is...
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defense
i. basketball everything in this section is only approximately correct. basketball is a complicated sport and there are many exceptions to every principle i’ve been watching basketball on-and-off for a...
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Making my Ring Delivery Dress
In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a sewing machine before, but I was armed with the false...
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taking care
i’ve been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me? of course, growing up, the answer was my family. i woke up one morning craving the napa cabbage and meatball soup that my dad used...
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I went to a motorcycle festival
The other day, I skivved off studying for thermodynamics and instead biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals, and planned that it would take about a third of the hours...
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you & i will always be back then
[warning: contains spoilers for the cartoon show adventure time] lessons learned I recently finished watching Adventure Time, a fantasy cartoon written by Pendleton Ward that follows Finn the Human...
View Articlethe first day of work
one. it’s nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don’t mean laziness, or the messaging app. in business, before slack became ubiquitous as a professional chat room, it was a project...
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a jaunt to Philadelphia
I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm room.01 I am actually sitting in a coffee shop in Arizona, finishing this blog many months later, because I got too hosed to finish it in March. It’s late. I’m...
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Declared My Major :D
At MIT, students are able to declare their major starting sometime during the spring term of their freshman year. I’m a fairly decisive person when it come to what I want to do, so I was dead confident...
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21W.762 Poetry Workshop
This semester, I decided to take 21W.762 Poetry Workshop taught by Ed Barrett. I’ve always wanted to learn how to write poetry, being too afraid to really just dive into it since it felt cringey or...
View Articleat least it’s not covid
on thursday morning, i woke up at 9 am, after only six hours of sleep, and i felt awful. my throat was sore, i simultaneously felt hot and cold, and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose....
View ArticleToday
Today, I woke up and walked to Trader Joe’s. The elevator was taking a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of stairs. The air that encompasses the staircase is hot and inky,...
View Articlezero knowledge
one of the things i’m working on outside of class this semester is a zero-knowledge cryptography project with 0xparc, a crypto research organization. i got involved with 0xparc because it’s actually...
View Articleswatches of MIT
I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and drabs. This is for people on the fence, for those who aren’t sure what MIT is offering, or if the experience here is worth all the...
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who started the fire? (not clickbait)
For the last few years, I’ve been living off-campus in a house full of other MIT undergraduate women. We’re part of MIT’s FSILG (Fraternity, Sorority, and Independent Living Group) system. My house is...
View Articlerandom thoughts about choices
one concern i hear from a lot of people on-the-fence is of mit’s “grind culture” or “questionable mental health”. mit is hard. some people say mit is only as hard as you want it to be. that is a lie,...
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