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Dear blog readers,  I have something to confess. I, Veronica P, am an addict. No matter how hard I try to fight it, I get this uncontrollable urge. Every single time I get a free t shirt, I can’t help myself. It’s an itch that must be scratched. It’s all… Read More

My dorm East Campus (EC) has a long tradition of radical room customization, including resident-constructed lofts, shelves, and miscellaneous furniture. Although I initially emailed the EC house manager to request additional bed posts, after several weeks of being ghosted, I decided to regain control of my space. I would build… Read More

Tuesday I had a bad day. I want to talk about what bad days look like right now, because what I consider a bad day has changed a lot over time. I also want to talk about thermodynamics⁠… Read More

Every roommate I’ve lived with quickly discovers my hidden superpower: I am invulnerable to alarms in the morning, no matter how loud or obnoxious. If I wake up, it’s not because of a clock, but instead purely through the strength of hopes, dreams, affirmations, and prayers. Accordingly, my Kryptonite is… Read More

i have taken two thousand, four hundred and forty photos since i came to MIT. my photo album conveniently lists them in chronological order, one after the other, in perfect linear narrative since i first stepped on campus. but i’ve found, increasingly, that memories don’t work that way. i’ve found that memories don’t often fall in orderly queues aligned with time; they meander and bifurcate and grow into each other. each place on campus and in boston — classrooms, dining halls, dorms, street intersections, parks — evoke moments in the past, or sometimes collections of moments spread over months at a time. thankfully for us, google photos not only displays its standard chronological view, but also lets you see where you took your photos, in the form of a heat map: 8 photos a day, for around three hundred days same map, but zoomed in on MIT (the big red cluster in the first picture) An arrow pointing right Previous An arrow pointing right Next each cluster on the map — bright red and orange — indicates a spot of high photo density and a clump of memories. here are some of the places that have the most memories: 1. massachusetts ave crossing outside lobby 7 like most students, i made the daily pilgrimage last year from my dorm in the west side of campus to my classes in the east side, and then back again in the afternoon. a pedestrian crossing across mass ave bridges the two sides — possibly the most iconic crossing on campus. november 7, 2024. the setting sun roughly aligns with the crossing and the infinite corridor in the days before and after mithenge december 11, 2024 december 24, 2024: my last few moments in boston for the fall semester, hauling a suitcase through fresh snow at 6 am january 20, 2025 An arrow pointing right Previous An arrow pointing right Next Read More

The first time I walked down that hallway, the world was white. Many years later, I’d learn that that hallway was actually a ‘corridor’—an infinite one, at that. Dramatically, slash if I were into telling fables, I would say something like “I’d also come… Read More