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It’s been a hot second since I last blogged- about ten weeks, to be precise. There are all sorts of random reasons I could give for my disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or family for going three weeks before replying to… Read More

Alright, here goes.   I’m a Burton Third Bomber. For the uninformed, this means that I 1) live on the third floor of the Burton side of the dorm Burton-Conner, and 2), am lowkey part of a cult—a rowdy, hilarious, and very orange cult that throws… Read More

This past week and a half I’ve been slowly adjusting to life at MIT again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about California and practically begging my mother to send me back to the cold hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I’ve been trying to… Read More

IAP is a concept I didn’t really understand until last month, oops. The way that MIT’s academic calendar works is that the Fall semester is from September to December, while the Spring semester is from February to May. In between the two semesters, during January, is Independent Activities Period—this glorious… Read More

today, the taal volcano erupted. photo from https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/12/asia/gallery/taal-volcano-eruption/index.html volcanic eruptions bring to mind the old tales passed down from our elders. i’m from metro manila, you see, and in high school earth science lessons we would talk about volcanoes, and my teachers have been old enough to… Read More

We haven’t been blogging as much as we’d like to. Senior fall and even this winter break have been so, so busy between the job hunt from September – November, and then grad school applications from November – now.  We don’t have time right now to… Read More

College apps are done! You did it! You’ll probably never have to write another uncomfortably personal essay ever again⁠14 unless you become a blogger, of course ! But, now comes the waiting. Read More