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Blog / How to MIT
how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr
A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of course, most MIT classrooms don’t have whiteboards — they have chalkboards. And there is one really, really… -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga
Way back in September, I had the difficult, difficult task of writing my blogger bio. It includes the following paragraph: the silly: you may see me zooming around campus on… -
Blog / Classes
CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?
I usually reserve these kinds of posts for life-changing classes, the kinds of classes that let me discover things about myself and about the world around me and see things… -
Blog / Miscellaneous
this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester
I’ll be honest, I lost track of time somewhere around the end of March; I feel like classes started really ramping up, everything started happening all at once, I started… -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Homecoming some musings on memory
You learn how to navigate MIT. It’s inevitable. After you stay here for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You’ll start knowing where things are. There… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane
When I started my freshman year at MIT four whole years ago, senior year and graduation and “the end” all felt so far out of reach. I wasn’t sure if… -
Blog / People & Identities
549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?
I’m turning nineteen today, without much fanfare; after all, nineteen is not a particularly interesting age, and the past year itself has also been a little barren, devoid of many… -
Blog / How to MIT
nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis
A while back I gave a presentation at MIT called Three Epiphanies and an Existential Crisis. It was basically me walking through my career in digital communication08 social media, email,… -
Blog / Classes
Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!
One of my favorite things about college is browsing all the classes I could hypothetically take and imagining my futures in them. Of course, the imagining bit is a lot… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester
it’s a cloudy Tuesday morning and i’m walking to Caffe Nero to get a matcha latte. Caffe Nero is conveniently only a five minute walk away from my house in… -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend
This post is intended to be accompanied by15 consider viewing them side-by-side! this one. Spring Semester, 2021 The four-day weekend which just passed is a result of this obscure Massachusetts… -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
…and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon
This post is intended to accompany23 consider viewing them side-by-side! this one. Spring Semester, 2021 This semester has been extremely hard; the exhaustion in the undergraduate community has been palpable… -
Blog / Miscellaneous
girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?
My father yells “What you gonna do with your life?” Oh daddy dear, you know you’re still number one But girls they wanna have fun With less than 48 hours… -
Blog / How to Human
on body image me in my head, me in the mirror
One. It’s the first time I’m seeing Sean in three months. He’s the person living nearest me whom I’ve known for the longest—I think we’ve been friends for four or… -
Blog / Advice
applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog
When I was applying to MIT, I thought that was the single application that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the odds of me… -
Blog / Academics & Research
head down, marching on highlights of spring semester
From my journal the other night– It’s 2 am, and I should be asleep. I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ear. I… -
Blog / Blog Projects
VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition
I was inspired by Ceri’s take on VEDA and partly by my long-time vlogging/blogging influence StephenVlog, who I actually wrote about in my blogger application, to finally take on this… -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam
What happens when your whole life unravels? Well, if you asked me, I’ll tell you I knit. Stitching things as my worldview unravels is perhaps the main thing that has… -
Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]
Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL
It’s never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission in the past, who went on…