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Blog / Miscellaneous
[joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies
Alan: Oh boy, here we go again.01 CJ: I find this appropriate given you watched Mamma Mia five times this summer. (Alan: For the record, it’s been seven times in… -
Blog / Summer
and they were roommates living with "randos"
one There’s this thing called a “cruft house”, when a group of MIT graduates live together after graduation. And the cruft houses I’ve seen have such interesting names, like Castle… -
Blog / Academics & Research
work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester
i. I took thermodynamics last fall, where I realized that a bomb calorimeter was actually a pretty good analogy for my life, and then I decided I had a problem.… -
Blog / Academics & Research
on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school
I wrote a blog at the end of last summer subtitled “so many different ways to feel lost:” I feel lost on a much deeper level than ever before, and… -
Blog / Uncategorized
Be a Blogger 2022!
It is summer in Cambridge, which means that: I am growing an alarming amount of tropical fruit plants on my apartment front stoop there’s a million fun things happening in… -
Blog / Community Projects
[joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das
Co-written by Rima Das and Amber Velez Amber: One unique characteristic about MIT is its plethora of makerspaces. There are big basement machine shops for meche classes, little makerspaces with… -
Blog / Summer
solace in the self it's me! cami!
Hi! Hello! Long time no see. It’s weird to be typing again. I feel kind of embarrassed for disappearing for a month from the blogs, especially when the blogs have… -
Blog / MIT Life
sk8 jebby on a skateboard
The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was also the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in Back to the Future Part… -
Blog / MISTI
COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽
cw: harassment (noted before the section where it’s mentioned, skip to the next pictures from there if needed!) “What’s your favorite type of metal?” asked a volunteer after Copenhell. We’d… -
Blog / Internships & Externships
soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers
Janice: Hey! Thanks for making time for this. CJ: No problem. Janice: I know it’s been months since we’ve last talked, but now that you’ve been here for more than… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
City Strangers a comic
text in the art for accessibility (and because my handwriting is very mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot. Brown puddles of… -
Blog / How to Food
to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi
A couple weeks back, Winnie reminded me that the Dragon Boat Festival existed44 At some point in my childhood my mom definitely made me read up on traditional holidays, but… -
Blog / How to Human
things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area
i. my first extended stay in the san francisco (henceforth abbreviated as sf) bay area was last spring, when i lived in the city, specifically in the nob hill district… -
Blog / Uncategorized
Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT
Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I suppose it was, but… -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"
When I applied to be a blogger last summer, “what happened yesterday?” was one of the prompts I responded to. I wrote about finishing my internship work early and spending… -
Blog / Classes
tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet
After a short burst of productivity in January, I proceeded to not write a mere sentence for months on the blogs. This makes the 6-month hiatus my longest dry streak… -
Blog / Summer
bay area parties well, two of them
in the last two weeks, i’ve been invited to two parties in the bay area. the first one was an invitation from a co-intern, who sent it in a group… -
Blog / MISTI
An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam
Monday, June 13th. 9:33 pm, in the back of Öz Konya Kebab: brightly lit, with LED lights on the ceiling that ease through the rainbow. I am not raging against… -
Blog / Advice
I did not graduate on time
I did not graduate on time. At first, I thought, I’m not one of those people. I was a good student. I defined myself by that quality more than I…