(Places/things) you may know me (from/for): the [REDACTED] Family Dinner, a collection of flowery poetry and prose, random encounters in the hallways, spamming MonkeyType during class, making memes, somehow always being short on Ziploc bags and then having to reuse them, writing a unhinged skit regarding Olive Garden, being obsessed with completing the 101 Things to do Before you Graduate, moving to MacGregor from Simmons, engaging in shameless acts of tourism around the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, co-directing MIT Splash with ESP, the CPW events at which I pretended to be a prefrosh for the free food, collaborative psetting, and the creation of a certain 91 step plan.
But chances are you don't know me at all. In which case, welcome to my blog! I hope you enjoy your time here :) I'm Fiona, a sophomore majoring in 6-2 (electrical engineering and computer science) from the Bay Area, California.
When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be an astronaut because I loved the stars and planets. Then, I realized the very real and terrifying danger of being sucked into a black hole, as well as the fact that the sun will explode in 10 billion years, and promptly decided to pursue a safer career path. At the end of my freshman year at MIT, I decided on 6-2, although I still feel very tumultuous about my academic/career plans.
Outside of academics, I feel strongly about writing, doing interesting things, and sharing those things with others—these also happen to be the exact reasons why I applied to become a blogger!
I stumbled into MIT, then stumbled through my first year, and it was terrifying and exciting and like nothing I've ever done before, so I'm ready to stumble some more: through my next [_] years at MIT, through graduation, and maybe into being an actual adult. I'd be overjoyed if you took the time to sift through the thoughts I dump on the internet. A rough estimation of what those thoughts (and the next few years of my life) will look like: Trying, failing, trying to fail more often and more creatively. Doing difficult things. Figuring out whether the major I declared on an absolute whim was the right one for me (spoiler alert: it probably won't be). Having interesting conversations at interesting times of night. Impulse-joining events I find on dormspam. Discovering all the things and people that make me happy. Searching for the person I'll be at the end of my years at MIT.
