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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

Every freshman’s first few weeks at MIT tend to follow a predictable pattern – hunting for the best shortcuts across campus, making daily trips to Newbury, creating long notes lists of all the restaurants you want to try, wandering through the underground tunnels, spending WAY too much time in… Read More

Two years ago in freshman year (:O so long ago), I wrote this poem. I had just moved to Cambridge not even 3 months before, and was adjusting to a place radically different from home. In these first few months, I spent a lot of time walking and riding my… Read More

Hey yall. It’s been a while. On Sunday June 21st I texted Ceri that I was planning on dropping an effortpost “in the next week or so”. (: It has now been over two weeks now since Silksong dropped. I have no explanation, only excuses. When I started this project… Read More

I worked in Bristol Robotics this summer through MISTI, MIT’s travel abroad program. I figured this could be fun, getting to work somewhere cool and also play tourist on the weekend in another country, but even the internship alone was by far the best work/research experience I’ve had. I met… Read More