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Blog / Classes
GELcamp project management… in the woods?
A few days ago I got back from what I can only describe as a four-day fever dream. Here’s a diary of everything that went down during GELcamp… Day One… -
Blog / How to Human
real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community
i’ve started collecting cds. i think part of this has come from wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel the weight of.… -
Blog / Classes
happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)
Today marks my last first day of classes (LFDOC!) as an undergrad at MIT. This semester feels particularly special for a number of reasons. Namely: It’s my very last semester… -
Blog / IAP
(another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center
barcelona, with casa battló in the background If there’s anything I’ve learned from being here this long, it’s that when the weather turns and the gloom sets in and… -
Blog / Community Projects
Affirmations not unnecessary
“My name is Paige, and I’m a bit of an optimist. Or at least, I try to be. … Beyond being an optimist, I’m a mathematician. Or at least, I… -
Blog / Life after MIT
rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life
Somedays, I check to make sure my diploma is real and I didn’t just dream the whole thing. I get a little bit jumpscared when I get an alumni newsletter.… -
Blog / Life after MIT
Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only
I’ve been stuck in the same dungeon in Metaphor: Refantazio for the last two weeks. The most frustrating part of this experience is that every time I turn the game… -
Blog / Life after MIT
in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23
zero. alan proof of life (credits: Arun W. ’23; Eric Z., Harvard ’23) So, in spite of it all, we’re still alive, and we’re still writing. You can’t stop us.… -
Blog / Life after MIT
You always have been hi everybody!
Dear Reader, I’m writing this in the WordPress portal and this is an absolute blast from the fucking past. Can I open up by cursing? Is that allowed? One time,… -
Blog / How to Human
infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet
in the (almost) two years since leaving school, the term “infinite corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long hallway on campus: but… -
Blog / Life after MIT
Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now
The student blogger named Mimi is a much different person than I am now. For better or for worse, everything about me has changed. I want to start with things… -
Blog / Life after MIT
I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years
I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train, writing a blog post for the first time in almost four years. Since I started MIT in the… -
Blog / Life after MIT
throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)
helloooooooo blogosphere! so i wasn’t planning on posting this week — the usual feelings of hosage, and what to write, and all of that. but reading everyone’s blogs has brought… -
Blog / How to Human
Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed
I really was not going to post. There were several excuses I was making to myself as to why I was not going to post: I am not even that… -
Blog / Life after MIT
In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later
In broad strokes, my life in 2025 is not so different from my life in 2021. I’m a student at MIT studying aerospace engineering. I live in Somerville with my… -
Blog / Life after MIT
The After
In a couple months, I’ll be back in Cambridge after 10 years of taking those first steps through Lobby 7 as a prefrosh. The inevitable soul searching happening as I… -
Blog / Challenges
Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now
When I graduated in 2018, I was talking to my partner about how lost I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to peer mental health had… -
Blog / Life after MIT
A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis
The three main characters from the film Burning In Lee Chang-dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger”. The Little Hunger is the… -
Blog / IAP
Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever
It’s been over six years since I graduated MIT – longer than I spent in school, but not long enough that my body has totally disconnected from the calendar. Fall…