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On Tuesday, the MIT Institute Community and Equity Office hosted a virtual vigil. As the announcement for the vigil read: We gather in the wake of the recent tragic killings of African American people across the United States – including the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery (Glynn County, GA,… Read More

Note: Posting a lighthearted blog in the midst of everything that’s happening right now is…uncomfortable, to say the least. Given the circumstances, I can’t help but feel that the tone of this blog is strange and unprecedented, but I hope you can read and enjoy nonetheless Ever since I moved… Read More

For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester, you might remember that this was supposed to be the semester where I really came into my own as a MIT student. And I did, I think. I enjoyed the vast majority of my classes, and… Read More

Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble, being physically, mentally and financially protected from the realities of what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains that the freedoms and privileges that I enjoy today were… Read More

I have been absent from the blogs for the better part of eight years.  My absence is easy to explain, though, having left the Institute to work more closely with students as a college counselor in a high school setting. There is a great deal that I enjoyed about engaging in… Read More

(A quick note before I start this post: My intro would be kind of confusing if I didn’t tell you that I made the last-minute decision to move back to my hometown for the summer. For those who’ve been following my blogs, I actually moved to Maine with… Read More

The original premise for this blog post was that I would dissect the bio/about section of my blogger profile, which I wrote in either August or September of 2016. I thought, in the style of my last blog post, I would write some snappy lines about how my bio… Read More