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Trail Notes
Summer in Alaska, I learned this July, is an exuberant, unrestrained triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically: the snow folds into itself & the green pushes out;...
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climbing the wall
There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- “athletically inclined” is not one of them. I can appreciate and enjoy a sport, but never with a true passion that...
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If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester…
I’m a crusty senior now, so I have no fun and sparkly adventures to write about like the first-year bloggers have been doing (at least not for this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the...
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Pictures from a Month into Classes
MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal scene on this campus, you would probably be wrong (very, very, wrong). In the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret...
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Contrary to popular (and probably well-founded) belief, I once was psychic. Not only did I successfully predict the 2021 Pantone Color of the Year (with a Google Slideshow as evidence) and COVID-1901...
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Taking the L
I never wrote a blog recapping last semester. I thought about it quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them really ever came to anything. Among all the thoughts, only one...
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love in the time of unlimited data
In Milan I was constantly toeing the line between speaking solely in English, which I feared would make me seem like an entitled American who thought the whole world should cater to the dominance of...
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look at the stars
How do you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, design the merch that defines half of campus fashion, build software that powers hackathons from around the world, and do everything else necessary to...
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Sweet summer song
Hey folks, it’s been a while. I’ve been very focused and not in a writing mood for the last couple months, but I’m back and I’m excited to start cooking. Yes; as the music changes, Like a prismatic...
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I walk a lonely road
As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from Main Campus01 east of Massachusetts Ave., where most of the academic buildings are , I spend a lot of time walking. But “a lot of time” is far...
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The Romance of Learning
I took a test early last week for my Japanese language and culture class.01 21G.S55: Japanese V I woke up early that morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain and heavy...
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My highest achievement at MIT.
Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE requirement The instructor let me take it home! I SPLIT AN ARROW Edit: Okay, it wasn’t split as neatly as that scene in Brave, but that’s...
View Articlei will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me
I’ve always been a little bit of a hypochondriac, and while that is probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into, there is one clear trend: I hate being sick. I hate the idea...
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Learning about the ABCs
The Apple Bake Competition is an annual event held by the Burton-Conner01 one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live GRAs 02 Graduate Resident Advisors, aka Real Adults who occasionally bake us...
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The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸
The summer before college was my last summer of being 18, and thus my last year of eligibility for a ~special program~ my local library ran. They had little booklets at the front of the library for...
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halloween down the infinite
Happy (slightly belated) 01 so if you think about it i'm technically still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting...
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in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there are so many different people who make sure it continues the...
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The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever
Hey, everyone! It’s time for everyone’s favorite update… soccer season!! We just wrapped up our regular season, and I wanted to share the last three days that led up to that, because a lot went down....
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The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟
One email. Over forty recipients. Scraped from search.mit.edu01 a convenient place to find EVERY MIT PERSON EVER , I assembled a mailing list of faculty, grad students, undergraduates, and more. My...
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I think I am slowly going insane
Last week, Professor Han made an exciting announcement during 6.5940 (TinyML) lecture: the class was holding a competition, with AI development boards (worth $500+) as the top prizes! The competition...
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