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learning how to drive
STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires some luck based on your circumstances. It’s going to be a bit harder if you live in a more suburban or rural area and local bus routes...
View Articlehow not to be a mathematician
By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the belief cemented. If anything, I felt like I had gotten less...
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LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳
“On a scale from one to ten, where one is ‘Eat to Live,’ and ten is ‘Live to Eat,’ where would you rate yourself?” The question was asked at a fancy restaurant in Republic Square, Yerevan, after I and...
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dance dance dance!
Anyone who knows me from high school or Mathcamp or SSP04 Summer Science Program knows that I have the tendency to do everything. I’m in clubs and choirs, running events, and starting (and sometimes...
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tunes of interphase!
I. Lift – Radiohead I didn’t really have a good senior year. My hometown started closing in on me in October, and it would’ve kept doing so until I collapsed under the pressure had I not gotten an MIT...
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my first year, in slices
“The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear and push, know they would otherwise atrophy.” I wrote this line roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just...
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greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity
As of this weekend, I have watched Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster Barbie six (6) times. I have also cried to Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster Barbie five (5) times, almost always multiple times during...
View Articlehokey pokey
The school year has begun again. I’m glad to report that some things never change: aside from all the frosh complaining about why building 26 is bunched between 12 and 36,01 yeah the number system...
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things that made me happy lately
It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had brewed jasmine tea at the pika01 My very cool independent living group! kitchen counter and was sipping it while listening in on...
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Pics from the WMBRBQ!
Hello friends!! The semester has started, and I have been SWAMPED with work. I got all excited with the new semester and joined some new clubs, but didn’t drop any clubs from last year, so now I’m kind...
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get SLAPped!
last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the initiation of a two-year renovation plan, but house team was...
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The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖
SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 I primarily use my iPad, SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 to take notes during class. SLP is a tough, no nonsense master of productivity, with a work ethic I admire greatly. Offering me free academic...
View Article必须好 – pt. 1
additional context: hello! the writing below was my first ever attempt at blogging—funnily enough, i only started this writing to apply to be a blogger. while i read it now and see many things i would...
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In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…
… which just goes to show what a great job the acoustics engineers did on soundproofing the building! I got to experience it first-hand last week, and it was pretty mindblowing. That’s right – the...
View ArticleI Don’t Know
I don’t know where I’m going to be a year from now. That’s never really happened to me before. Preschool through college, it was kind of obvious that, duh, I’d be going to school next year. Maybe the...
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turning back time
I spent this past summer01 and also the summer before that at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington doing some math and a lot of camp. Mickey Mouse won’t tell you this,...
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this ain’t (not) Texas
I step off my plane, and immediately spot this amusing sign adorned with cowboy hats: I step outside and breathe in the toasty evening air. Hot like Vegas (where I flew in from), but much more humid....
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a lesson in the feminine arts
Last year when deciding which colleges I wanted to apply to, I had one priority over all else: living on a coast. I’m sorry all states from Utah to Virginia, but there was no way I could go four years...
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[Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort
I’ve had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is delight at seeing new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make...
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The Halls are Alive
Let’s face it, MIT’s campus is not known for being the most gorgeous of all college campuses. I personally like the mix of ultra-modern glass and steel, traditional marble, and cracked windows covered...
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