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a semester in glass!
As I mentioned in my last blog,14 which was uhhh a while ago oops sorry , this semester was my second semester learning with the MIT Glass Lab, and I had an absolutely amazing time. Here’s a...
View Articledifficult difficult lemon difficult
When I started senior fall, I was taking a course load of 6 classes.10 I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a horrifically cursed system of <a...
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checkboxes
things I did: quogs in a ‘metastable state’ spent more time with my wing at next house, each floor is divided into two wings, and each wing has multiple lounges, where people come to hang out and...
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lookin’ at the blur of this semester
This semester I took seven classes — 72 units,04 typically classes are 12 units each, so an average semester is 48-60 units, or 4-5 classes since one class was a 3-unit and one was a 9-unit. I learned...
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This entire blog has this playlist. Enjoy. This semester was rough. This sort of sentence has been one I’ve had trouble saying throughout my time at MIT. Some semesters go by better than others, but...
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recently i looked through a list of all my friends who graduated from college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to me now than they did while they were in school i have a...
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intention
Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the year. This is usually done in the form of setting New Year’s resolutions, but I figured I should doing something a little more...
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23andme
Sadly, I did not come up with the title pun myself, I saw it on Twitter. Since my blogs do a decent job of encompassing how 2022 went for me, I won’t review the past year on here, but I made a Substack...
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an album a day
in 2022, I challenged myself to listen to an album every day. I thought this would be a good idea because I enjoy the entire process of listening to music: looking for new songs/albums, actually...
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Fonts of MIT
MIT’s signs and posters carry diverse fonts.03 You might be thinking: <em>technically</em>, I should be calling them <em>typefaces</em>. First off, I sometimes...
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writing and faeries
I took two classes at Harvard! I wrote down my first impressions, and now, upon leaving, I have a few more reflections — mainly that exposing myself to different perspectives and value systems was...
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Communication Intensive
“This is it,” I thought as I submitted my last college essay. “I’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of English – especially not at (hopefully) MIT!” Boy, was I...
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What I made in my documentary class
This semester I took 21W.790[J] Short Attention Span Documentary, taught by Professor Vivek Bald. Learning to make videos was a goal of mine for 2022. I love photography and writing, and video is a...
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meandering
tl;dr it’s cool to explore interests completely different from what your high school self would’ve expected! After five semesters at MIT, two change of majors forms, and many advisor meetings initiated...
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HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD
I’ve been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3.096: Architectural Ironwork, a class which not only counts as both 2-A credit and HASS credit for me, but also accelerated my...
View Articleevery book I read in 2022
Reading is one of the few real hobbies I’ve managed to hold onto throughout my time at MIT, not that I have much time to read during the semesters. Still, it’s nice to look back at the past year, which...
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This entire blog has this playlist. Enjoy. Also this is the second and final part to my previous blog. I spent last semester trying to catch my breath. Now that I finally have, I’m not quite certain...
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writing gary wang’s wikipedia page
Cross-posted on my Substack here. A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon Gary Wang’s newly-created Wikipedia page. Gary Wang, for the uninitiated, is the former CTO of FTX. He’s quite reclusive, and despite...
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eighty hours (pt. 1)
Last week, I took Amtrak across the country, from Boston to San Francisco. Along the eighty-hour journey, I took some notes about what I was up to, what was happening around the train, what I was...
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