Goodnight Moon
It is currently 5:26am and even though I really truly definitely positively absolutely should be asleep right now, I’m not. I know that classes start tomorrow (or I guess today, if we are being...
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It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!!
HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging Habits for AY 2017 (Academic Year 2017) I’m trying something...
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Summer in San Francisco
I spent this summer interning at PlayStation. The office was in San Francisco. Aside from one of those double-decker tour buses, I’d never spent time in the city before. Plus, this was my first real...
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The Class of 2020 Hacks Back
As you probably know, we've taken to sending our acceptance letters out in little silver tubes. Every year we enclose something different. A few years ago, for example, we challenged students to hack...
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You should consider studying economics if…
So if you've been reading these blogs for a while now, you might already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I came into MIT not knowing what I would study, ended up going...
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a week of class notes
classes started last wednesday! here's a cross-section of my coursework this semester, as represented by some notes from each class: 16.06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class...
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Three Weeks
I've only been here for a few weeks, but 'here' already feels like home. There are things I miss about real home too. Like my high school friends, or my mom's cooking, or the generally lethargic mood...
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I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts
You know, it’s not every day that a person chooses to move to a completely new place full of strangers and challenges and legends and horror stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I...
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All the Feels
I am currently a ball of feelings. Some people might call me an emotional wreck, but I think it’s just something that comes with being in a completely new place with new people, new challenges, new...
View ArticleOn being at college
I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to MIT. Even though I have been repeating these phrases over and over in my head for the past 2 weeks that I have been on campus, I...
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Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things
It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at the first posts by our first-year bloggers. There’s a common theme: MIT is home and nothing will ever change that. It was the new...
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jr fall
quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus, just to share how my semester is going. somehow, 1.5 weeks into classes, i'm already inundated with work--but i'm not complaining....
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Memory down résumé lane
It totally hit me today when I stumbled upon a copy of the Tech and an advertisement for Fall Career Fair on the back page. That means an entire year has passed. It's. Sophomore. Year. Now. Whoa....
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A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair
MIT’s (in)famous fall career fair is this coming Friday…which means campus is already gearing up for the mad rush for jobs and free goodies. People are lining up in Lobby 10 to collect their booklets...
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Dream Machine
You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to procrastinate an assignment that you organize your life, clean your room, get a job, exercise, drink 8 cups of water, consult your doctor,...
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A typical first semester
It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam which is later today, but instead I'm blogging. [insert pass/no record joke here] Term is in full swing: pset parties are everywhere,...
View ArticleHi, Applicant to the Class of 2021!
Hi, Whew, it’s been a long week! But I was thinking today about this time during my senior year of high school and that was really… (in)tense. I haven’t experienced that much uncertainty in my life...
View ArticleBeing Sick at the Institute
Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am sick. What a joy it has been to experience illness during the first two full weeks of class at MIT (rather than three weeks earlier...
View ArticleFaking It
warning: the post below is probably the cheesiest thing i have ever written. it is highly unedited and makes me feel both embarrassed and proud. i usually like to sculpt and edit neurotically, but i'm...
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Unremarkable things
The other day I was talking to someone new, and he asked me what year I was. I said junior, and he said, “ah, yeah, that’s usually when people start to become super jaded. Have you gotten to that...
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