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seattle ➞ mit

for a brief moment over the summer i think i truly believed that i was a working adult, living the 9 to 5, subconsciously looking forward to the paycheck every other friday. i thought a lot about how...

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i love this f*cking place

okay, it’s a bit early to proclaim my love for this place, especially since MIT is a freaking hard school that will likely destroy me sometime in the near future.   but i digress.   i had a strange...

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21E

We are majoring in 21E, a joint major that lets you combine any humanities field (21), and any engineering field (E). We were recently messaged about the requirements of 21E, and were inspired to make...

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happy palindrome week!

Here in America, our vaunted exceptionalism takes many forms, including how we write our dates. The convention of MM-DD-YY⁠01 and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/ and not 09/...

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Notes on Cancer

I’m taking 7.45 Hallmarks of Cancer this semester with Tyler Jacks⁠01 director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, one of those buildings that course 7s and 20s spend a lot of time...

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first week class reflections

i recently experienced my first weekend at mit with classes finally in session and i have…an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post was a lot of feelings, but there’s a lot of feelings still. too...

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summer side projects

this summer, i found myself with *free time*. it wasn’t quite as much free time as you might expect with a 9-6 job schedule since i was always super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to...

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When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide?

Picture this: me, three water balloons in hand, running across Killian court with my East Campus compatriots by my side. I’m smiling, I’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom...

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my semester in a word: oof

way back when, i wrote about the mistake of a courseload that i took second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don’t have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006,...

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how to change majors

1) Start a major Somebody once warned me joining the military would break you down and slowly build you back up again. MIT is not the military, but MIT will break you down and force you to rebuild...

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Surprisingly enjoyable experiences

Power tools East Campus brings to mind rollercoasters and huge construction projects. Fanciful monsters built up from wood and screws. Less so the things that are built, but more the ambition behind...

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Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT

Things pick up pace real quick once the semester starts. At times, it feels like you’re in a hamster ball, surrounded by due dates, responsibilities, meetings, applications. The grind never stops, and...

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Rise and Grind and Build

During my hiatus, I spent a lot of time working and soul searching.⁠01 going to therapy I ate toast with peanut butter and banana slices for breakfast every day, packed myself lunch every day for work,...

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FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing

a brief respite finds me on the second floor of Lobby 7.⁠01 MIT's main entrance, located on 77 Mass Ave i let my shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the ground; it...

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There is a bench

The rhythm sets in. It’s a steady rhythm. Roll out of bed at ten in the morning. Quickly assemble breakfast. Head to lecture. Cook lunch, or buy lunch, and work on my problem set in the lounge at our...

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Boston’s Climate Strike

Today has been a hectic day, to say the least. It’s only around 9pm, and I’ve already had about three outfit changes. Not only was today MIT’s Fall Career Fair, but also the day of the Global Climate...

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freshman blogger, sophomore student

Coming back to campus has been unsettling for many reasons. My identity as a clueless freshman has been stripped though I have inadvertently introduced myself as a freshman one too many times. Now, I...

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No one:

Us, hesitantly: “Do you want to see every Naruto-themed art project we made when we were 13?”  Because this summer, we reorganized our closet at home, and found some …. Things.  The sorting process...

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The Art of Juggling

My brain’s been on overdrive from the moment I stepped foot onto MIT, hopping from one event to the next, pset to pset, club to club. Every summer, I’m usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to...

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“futility island”

It’s more likely than you think! To understand this hack, you need some background on recent happenings at MIT, so please bear with me: An art installation went up recently on “Walker Lawn”, also known...

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