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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 it comes at you from every direction. And so you walk all over your workload, checking off one… Read More

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 it, more the fact that it’s possible, that you didn’t need a company and dozens of weeks, that a… Read More

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 yourself, slowly, painfully, inch by inch. You will lose… Read More

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, MIT’s intro to algorithms class and possibly the most… Read More

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 that I’ve never known before. I move to attack a Simmons resident. As he swings his… Read More

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 bed, but i still had one or two hours… Read More

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 many feelings. i spent the entirety of my saturday afternoon psetting for only… Read More