Pretty sure it slipped out of my backpack on the plane…silly me. I checked my location tracker (because I am crazy and put a really old tile on it) and saw it was still in the luggage area, submitted item retrieval paperwork to the airport, and have since heard nothing. Legend has it, the bottle is still there. Unfortunately, I have no intentionally-taken photos of it, but I did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the grain.
Here are the cropped versions:
[1] Google "Nikola Tesla" celebration, [2] "I Voted" Las Vegas sticker with The Strip skyline!, [3] I registered (also for voting), [4] "Yes! I am an engineer" sticker covered by another sticker of a moonlit evening, [5] QuestBridge <3, [6] Please Return (idk where this is from), [7] PARADE (thought it looked cool), [8] red solar car sticker over a "IdeasBeHeard" thingy?
[1] lil wil star, [2] #ihtfp, which is MIT lingo for "i hate this fucking place" but also "i have truly found paradise", [3] stemchats logo, [4] turquoise pika logo! (an mit living group i stayed with one summer), [5] sloth on a cloud, [6] MITEI (mit energy initiative), [7] FLI@MIT (first-gen and/or low-income) <333, [8] MIT spinning arts club hehe, [9] apple, [10] MakeMIT hackathon, [11] UPOP (an mit professional dev group)
[1] murakami flower, [2] easter island head that my middle school friend made, [3] Thai exit sign I found in Thailand, [4] Course 2 (mechanical engineering) bandsaw, [5] MIT Class of 2025 tim the beaver
(same angle but from much later) new things: i ran out of space and started stickering the lid. and a friend gifted me the melting rubik's cube!
(very short eulogy): you did such a great job at holding water. oh great green bottle, you will be missed.
I feel like a mosaic, comprised of fragments of everything around me.
My water bottles have been akin to that, but instead with stickers.
Fun fact: 2 years ago, while I was working as an Orientation Leader, I was mistaken as ~the blogger who blogged about their water bottle stickers~ (which was actually Audrey C. ’24, at the time) because I had my bottle out. So, here is me adding to the blogger bottle lore.
I’ve made it a point to never buy a sticker for my bottles. I just use the ones that have naturally found their way into my life. Feels interestingly organic that way.
I also put stickers only on my bottle. I used to cover other things, like fridges or laptops, but I like them all in one place.
Layers and layers have built up. I like how the less-relevant stickers fade away under the new ones, but I know they’re still there. It’s also an interesting creative challenge to decide what stickers I’m willing to cover up for the sake of the newer ones.
I got a
new bottle.01i must note i was into the Owalas back in 2020, way before they took off 😤
This time, with an
AirTag instead,02fun fact: when I interned at Apple, the only thing I bought with my employee discount was a ton of AirTags lol
for more accurate tracking.
[1] mit concourse sticker! my freshman year learning community that integrates stem/humanities with philosophical works <3, [2] MIT Class of 2025, rubberbands that I flip to track water intake, [3] Far Out New Zealand Icecream Sticker that fellow blogger Janet G. '27 insisted we all try, [4] cursed tim sailor moon art, [5] "be kind to yourself" sticker from student support services, [6] #ihtfp makes a comeback, [7] yellow bird mascot for my team in 2.009 (mit meche senior capstone class)
[1] meche 3 pillars logo, [2] plant in a triangle, [3] in-n-out let's go west coast!!, [4] oops!
[1] "kwan" AirTag bc my nickname is "kano" so that tag finishes it up, [2] horribly faded Beats logo, [3] MIT MECH E, [4] two girls sitting by a pond (hard to see under rubber bands), [5] MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium under which I do research, [6] MakeMIT hackathon, [7] Dark Monk (a fire spinning supplier), [8] duolingo (rip), [9] East Campus Rated EC sticker hehe
[1] 6.101 sticker for meeting objectives in the fundamentals of programming class, [2] Flu-free MIT sticker for getting the flu shot, [3] Unicorn State of Mind (vague startup-y vibes), [4] Soviet Club (really cool bar I went to in Armenia through MIT), [5] girl playing with cubes (me fr), [6] 2.009 Balance (the theme for the 2.009 class was balance), [7] metropolis (my home makerspace that I mentored for), [8] cacti (reminds me of vegas), [9] Notion sticker bc i'm the mit notion ambassador, [10] stay spicy sriracha bottle (my friend Caitlin O. '25 got this for me because I love hot sauce and my family is from the city of origin, Si Racha, Thailand, [11] MIT D-Lab (where I'm working on a renewable energy project for a developing country, and might travel to install stuff)
bonus: bottom of the bottle! [1] Rigbotics? & Mortanica, which was the theme of 2.007 (a robotics class) when I took it, [2] having an ELxisential crisis? (cool sticker to advertise ELx, mit's experiential learning opportunities, which ive used a TON), [3] cat squished in a box <3
