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Exam Cram
Bonus: 3.091 (Solid-State Chemistry) class has a weekly meme contest. Because I’m a try hard and didn’t know how to make proper memes, I drew a comic. The topic was on orbitals and hybridization. I...
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falling in love with october
we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the stars admiring from afar (to properly credit “we fell in love in october” by girl in red as the reference for this blog’s title) Between...
View ArticleLet’s talk about interviews
In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post about interviews, especially as an admissions officer on the EC team and someone who has experienced the EC interview both as an...
View ArticleFWACC!
This Friday, at 8:05 PM01 hopefully, if we're running on schedule. in Kresge Auditorium, the lights will dim over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three years, dozens of...
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On psets and projects
In my mind, many MIT classes04 Many, but by no means all. Giving a number is hard: do you count distinct classes, or should you weigh classes based on how many people take them? With the latter...
View ArticleMy Life Is In Shambles…
TW: Depression, Suicidal Ideation My friend Nathan is aggressively bad at reading maps. Notoriously, infamously, comically bad at it. Not even his phone’s mobile navigation app can save him from his...
View ArticleLiving the MEng life
I officially graduated from MIT last year, but I’m still here, doing what we call “MEnging” (em-en-jing). The MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science01 Colloquially known as...
View ArticleWomanhood
TW: Detailed Descriptions of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault, Brief Mentions of Pedophilia and Disordered Eating This piece is just a series of things loosely held together by a vague...
View ArticleAlways Rooting for the Anti-Hero
where i am Since the beginning of the fall semester of my senior year, I’ve felt a decided shift in the air. I’ve mentioned it before, jokingly referring this period as my “nice era” to my friends. In...
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This is why we can’t have nice things
People walking shoulder-to-shoulder down the Infinite There’s always that one group of people walking down the Infinite who block up the whole hallway. Whether it’s two people who spaced themselves out...
View Articlesenioritis
I’m up, you’re drunk I wish I had no work today I wish I had no work today Still trapped, from night’s bath You wish I had no work today You wish I had no work today i don’t feel like doing schoolwork...
View ArticleImmaterial Girl in a Material World
“Where did you learn about functional programming outside of 3.019?” a professor asked me after a lecture one day. “Your [3.010] poster says you’re in the EECS department – is that true?” another asked...
View ArticleIs This All?
I often fear that college is some big practical joke everyone is playing on me. You will have the most freeing, most independent, most experimental and hectic four years of your life, they tell me. You...
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bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things
The other day I fell asleep watching Hermitcraft videos on Youtube, which is how you know I’m well and truly exhausted. Normally, playing and/or watching people play Minecraft is a hyperfixation that...
View Articleblind spots
I. eulogies are beautiful but can we talk about leaves before fall? this time, i’ll make the summer count this time, i’ll be louder today, i feel like a leaf rustling impatiently behind far gone...
View Articleback to high school
I’m taking CMS.58601 Introduction to Education this semester, and part of the class involves observing at local middle or high schools. For me, this means appearing at Cambridge Community Charter...
View Articlei quit an internship on the second day
Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT full-time during fall 2020, since I knew I wouldn’t get that much out of Zoom University. Instead, I chose to work. Unfortunately,...
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Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though)
Black Panther 2 comes out this Friday, and everyone and their dog seems to have tickets to see the film when it premieres. Before you ask, no, I am not one of those people. Not just because I’m busy...
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Fun things I’ve done lately!
In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a Master’s student instead of an undergrad is that I have a bit more free time to have fun. I promised to write more about the fun...
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The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus
Last spring, I took CMS.614, Network Cultures, taught by Petey. It’s one of my favorite classes I’ve ever taken at MIT (even though I had to drop it 3/4ths of the way through the semester). One of the...
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