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Sentimental Objects (part 3)
This is the 3rd part of our 4 part Sentimental Objects series! Here are parts 1 and 2 ! As we’ve described in the first two parts, we have a ceramic mushroom that we dub our memory mushroom, in which...
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I Moved Out!
empty, 5/25/19 full, 11/3/18this is a cropped panorama, forgive my shaky hands + the warping at the top
View ArticleA Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges
Here at MIT, because we’re edgy and unconventional, our equivalent to a regular college’s majors are called ‘courses’. We have a whole bunch of courses, a comprehensive list of which you can find...
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
The semester is over and I’m back at home, spread out on my much too familiar living room sofa. At this point, I should be familiar with how quickly 13 weeks go by. And just how little time there...
View ArticleYour Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer
It was 8:00pm on a Thursday night when I received a text message from a buddy who wanted to hang out. Since I was a college admissions officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work....
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“How was your day?”
I wake up a minute before my alarm goes off, at 8.59 am. This has been happening for the last two weeks, and I don’t know why. I bitterly get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the...
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first impressions of LA
three days ago, after i finished squeezing all my summer clothes and important possessions into a suitcase weighing a little over 50 pounds, a stuffed backpack, and a very stuffed guitar case, i...
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“How was your day?”
I wake up a minute before my alarm goes off, at 8.59 am. This has been happening for the last two weeks, and I don’t know why. I bitterly get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the...
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hello seattle
seattle felt foriegn to me as i walked its avenues, but i wasn’t comparing how foriegn it felt from my hometown in long island, new york, but to boston, and to cambridge, and to MIT. they have...
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but her emails
It is summer, and I have zero01 virtually, i.e. I'm still blogging and stuff but there are not currently any urgent MIT-related items that require action on my part responsibilities at MIT for the...
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The Adventures of Flat Tim
Before I started working at MIT, I had never driven on the highway.01 Or freeway or expressway or interstate or autobahn or whatever regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively...
View ArticleThe Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT
(webcast embedded from commencement website. I’ll return to this blog post throughout the day to add pictures and videos). Today, Friday, June 7th, the Class of 2019 graduates from MIT. They were...
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Diner, Dig-Ins and Dives
Disclaimer: This post was supposed to be written a whole 6 months ago. Pictures were taken, trips were made, food was scrutinized. But as happens a bit too often, writing this actual post got pushed...
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Spirited Away
*to set the mood* One Summer's Day The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but hell if I know what’s actually in any of them. While I finish packing...
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e3 2k19
if you like video games at all, then you’re probably familiar with e3 (THE gaming convention of the year). you might also know that e3 is in los angeles, and i too am in los angeles, and i am working...
View Articlework // life
my first day goes roughly how i imagined it would go: all the new interns wait for someone to pick us up and take us to a welcome and orientation meeting in a conference room somewhere. we watch a...
View Articlesellout’s conundrum
Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide, a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The...
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Summers
We spent our last three summers at home. That’s not super common for MIT students, and probably college students in general. Many do internships, travel, stay on campus or any combination of the above....
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Off
I’m approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a big ol’ biotech company,01 wish I could blog about it but public disclosure lawsuit blah blah blah and I’ve somewhat adjusted to the...
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