and they were roommates
one There’s this thing called a “cruft house”, when a group of MIT graduates live together after graduation. And the cruft houses I’ve seen have such interesting names, like Castle Kingside, Soviet...
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[joint post] unsubscribe
Alan: Oh boy, here we go again.01 CJ: I find this appropriate given you watched Mamma Mia five times this summer. (Alan: For the record, it’s been <em>seven</em> times in this...
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[Guest Post] The Alleyway
During the storms of May, the Charles rages toward the ocean while lightning snaps Boston in two. Most people had already run for their Back Bay brownstones to tea and scented candlelight. Yet some are...
View Articlewelcome to new york
When Taylor Swift’s 1989 album dropped, I read a review describing “Welcome to New York” as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was Taylor’s first decisively pop album and I was young enough...
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a night in hannover
This summer, I’m doing MISTI-Germany and living in Berlin. I’ve been enjoying it a lot for a number of reasons: not least because in Europe, everything is close, which allows for easy travel to...
View Articleto now and forever
This past weekend, I had two high school friends, Kenneth and Ethan, come visit me. They’re probably the closest people I had to best friends in my senior year after my other friend group split. Ethan,...
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pole dancing and punching things
I’ve been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in Copenhagen that I haven’t tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav maga, and did art with some coworkers! pole I’ve...
View Articlefeeling grown up
one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and this year’s apps are open) was “when was the first time you really felt like a grown up?” i’ve thought about this question on-and-off...
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a day in my life as a MISTI student
As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m doing MISTI-Germany this summer and living in Berlin. MISTI is a really cool program that gives MIT students support to live and work abroad for a summer or a...
View Articleyou can care about things
i. recently i was thinking about my relationship with other people both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a friend. i was pretty confused, so i asked on twitter: “a dilemma...
View ArticleToo Good To Go
I’m pretty sure that MIT dining hall food isn’t the reason why tens of thousands of people apply each year — mealplans are costly, dining hall hours can be restrictive, and the food is… mediocre at...
View ArticleTennessee Summer
I decided to return to Tennessee for the summer. It’s not that I didn’t have plans in Boston. In fact, I spent the larger part of the semester prying my fingers into closing doors to land something...
View ArticleBecoming a better programmer
Unknown unknowns As I’ve talked about several times, this summer, I’m doing an internship as a frontend developer for Instabase. So far I’ve blogged about the adulting-oriented questions, because...
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what i’m up to this summer
I’ve spent most of this summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, staying in Women’s Independent Living Group (WILG). These past few days, the heat wave has made even walking outdoors feel like swimming...
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train of thought
A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from...
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Chalk of the Week
This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome Center, which opened last year. I use these two blackboards that have wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for...
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in which i blog again
I’ve been putting off writing. I have half-baked blogs with lists like books I’ve read this year, events I organized, art I made, and even longer lists of the books I want to read and the places I want...
View Articleeverything, all at once
Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made a bet. I had been telling him about my research interests and my desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me...
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bumpers
I’m in Washington, D.C. today for a work trip, so I write this blog post from a hotel room that has not one, but two queen-sized beds. (One is for sleeping and one is for jumping.) Being an intern and...
View Articlenovelty
i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the first three weeks each felt blissfully long, as if i’d found a way to cheat time, and how everything since then has melted into an...
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