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My boyfriend and I made an impromptu trip to Montana over the weekend. It’s a funny story that honestly deserves its own blog post, but even more honestly, probably won’t get one because I don’t have the time. Anyways, we had two motivations for this trip, and one of them… Read More

Time flies. Today is August 6th, 2020. It’s been 143 days since I had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had somewhere upwards of 170 hours of dance practice… Read More

Between the fall and spring semesters at MIT there is a period spanning the month of January called the Independent Activities Period, or IAP for short. It’s an excellent chance to do whatever you want! If you want your time to have formal structure, MIT provides opportunities to travel… Read More

I’ve lived near Boston my whole life, but I had no idea that there are a ton⁠17 34, in fact of beautiful islands located off the harbor. You can kayak between them,… Read More

Over the last few weeks I have found five historical videos of MIT, ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I’ve embedded the five videos (in reverse chronological order) and written some notes and thoughts about them. I also pulled some pictures and gifs of… Read More

going absolutely wild at frat parties let’s get things straight: while i was at MIT, i never sought out frat parties. partying on my floor was always much more fun—everyone in my living community is amazing, we have bangers playing at all times, and there’s so much space to dance. Read More

Several classes I’ve taken at MIT use a platform called gradescope for assignment submission and grading. I like gradescope more than other online-submission platforms I’ve used. It comes down to the grading system, which features: Clear standards: Instructors can include a rubric breaking down each question, providing graders with… Read More