Amber V. '24
- Course 2A
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Biography
My mom named me Amber after the stop codon in DNA.
I come from Tucson, Arizona, where cacti take the place of trees, and your feet blister on the pavement. Because of this I like green plants, rivers that flow all year round, and the sky before it rains.
Some things about me --
I went on a gap year with a huge backpack in Europe. Some of that year was spent at a writing retreat with a goat called Buttercup, where I milked about 2 quarts each day, which adds up to a lot of milk.
I like chemistry and physics, black coffee and Mexican fast food. I get excited about history and how Italian coffeemakers work, old art, cafes, the Killers, musicals, math, being in new places, and, for some reason, the French Revolution. I accumulate stacks of books I will never read, though I will always intend to. I run.
Also, I write. Fantasy novels, mostly, though I like short stories too.
I want to be a writer, and every writer needs a day job, and a slew of odd experiences to draw from. I think MIT will help with those.
Let's see how this adventure unfolds.
Recent Posts
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dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!
- by Amber V. '24
- January 18, 2023
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HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096
- by Amber V. '24
- January 7, 2023
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writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard
- by Amber V. '24
- January 3, 2023
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lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!
- by Amber V. '24
- December 30, 2022
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the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again
- by Amber V. '24
- December 14, 2022
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hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP
- by Amber V. '24
- December 2, 2022
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a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!
- by Amber V. '24
- November 28, 2022
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best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away
- by Amber V. '24
- November 20, 2022
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food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking
- by Amber V. '24
- September 24, 2022
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A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all
- by Amber V. '24
- September 5, 2022