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What happens when your whole life unravels? Well, if you asked me, I’ll tell you I knit. Stitching things as my worldview unravels is perhaps the main thing that has helped through the ends of my world. Whether it was at 14 during that… Read More

It’s never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for… Read More

i’ve realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from the present, lingering in corners of the past. revisiting things that used to feel like home, dusting off once-beloved keepsakes. these days, i’ve found myself scrolling through old documents and snippets of writing, sometimes amused by who… Read More

I try my best to be as honest as possible on the blogs, while simultaneously trying to be kind to the institution that gives me the privilege of having such a wide platform to share my ideas on. Which is also why it’s only fair that I talk about how… Read More

the only way i can convince myself to write anything for the past two weeks has been bullet points. lists in lists in lists. i wrote an entire short story for 21w.755, reading and writing short stories, entirely through setting bullet points for each section, then bullet points for the… Read More

It’s April. I’ve been on campus for close to two months now. It’s halfway through the semester, and I’m in this weird mood lately where I really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare out the… Read More

It’s no secret that I am a) living in New Vassar and b) despise it. I’m unsure whether this is a symptom of the pandemic or a symptom of the dorm itself, but there is something cold and unfeeling about New Vassar. From the corridor-style, long, empty hallways to the… Read More