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getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵
enough (I planned it), this happens to be the first day of classes on ... I will want to look back on at the end of the semester to see if this ... teenager on the phone with their first crush: sitting in the back, kicking my -
Blog / Classes
How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity
making it interesting"]Steve Banzaert,[/annotation], I was fully on board ... , clunky buttons. I eventually landed on the idea of building a Tamagotchi ... these components be positioned on your actual board? I had to keep in mind -
Blog / About Decisions
I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET
announce Regular Action decisions on Pi Day every year. But, what exactly ... 't know about. So, I went around campus to get the scoop on how students and ... admissions decisions to applicants, but I was wondering if students on campus -
Blog / How to Human
real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community
="upperclassmen often sell their belongings for cheap on dormspam as they're moving out ... it boot up on the screen. i liked how tangible it felt. over winter ... were going on so many long drives over break that i thought it'd be good -
Blog / MIT Life
shifting seasons something reflective
mementos high school has been on my mind, lately. it's been almost ... my high-speed data for canada, there wasn't much to do on my phone so i ... semester trying to work through those emotions. what i landed on was that -
Blog / Classes
classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition
people here but i don't think it is just that. here are some thoughts on ... families (families of statistical models that behave nicely) and then went on ... new distribution (called the posterior) on the parameter. III. Geometry -
Blog / Events
dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)
"]DTYD[/annotation] LIV was on Sunday, so the days leading up to it were filled with events for our current members and alumni. the chaos started on Thursday, where ... . on Friday, I finished a pset, got lunch with a friend in Somerville -
Blog / Classes
the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again
“It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone ... the other with a hammer until something bends. I remember going on a ... into them again. On top of that, of course I know a small handful of -
Blog / Challenges
senioritis i wish i had no work today
tweet about it and it ended up on my timeline, so that's one positive thing i got out of twitter. as an aside, why are so many professors on ... . i'm doing a final presentation on abelian categories, and i'm reading -
Blog / How to Human
My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok
ago, the painted red and white stripes on the trees beside my ... carry in my heart more than doubled. The most secluded desk on the fifth ... can sit and watch the moisture in the air fluoresce on a foggy night -
Blog / Events
LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue
not put on a show from the comfort of the Lecture Series Committee ... ’ll be running the show on your own in no time. Just follow the link on the ... projecting Knives Out on my own just a few weeks later! However, I soon -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
it is the escape living a second life as an art student
decadent brunches, going shopping, so on and so forth. One of our many stops ... trinkets, like jewelry, stuffed animals, so on and so forth. Unfortunately ... overhead involved in managing all of my daily tasks. I am on the verge of -
Blog / How to Food
food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking
… You get the point. So now, I am conducting an anthropological study on ... the best. Beast (2E) has food on the free food table nearly every day of ... events put on by cultural clubs. plan ahead for free food events I -
Blog / Classes
Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out
mental bets on whether or not I succeed. So, out of spite, these are my ... or go to a meeting. I want to actually have a full grasp on the lecture ... concept but it is harder than it sounds in practice. On that note, I want -
Blog / Challenges
starting over and over again
. I rely a lot on my myriad of notebooks and papers: my planner, that ... minimum, my research notebook, which I love because it has weather maps on ... effort and management, which I just couldn't manage on top of my already -
Blog / Admissions
choosing where to go for my younger brother
On Friday, I watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, a movie where ... -carpet photoshoots and limousine rides. In another universe, she is a sign-spinner on a street corner. In other universes, she’s a teppanyaki chef, a rock on a -
Blog / How to Human
The long view days, months, years
old person." On Saturday the Puzzle Club ran an event where we solved ... Club worked on a P&A issue was last semester. Miscommunication meant ... hours, so we needed more food than I anticipated anyway. On Sunday night -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee
can we base our stories on real-life experiences, and how does this ... scale[/caption] part 2: did i tell you i like trains? We hop on the Red ... continue on our way. [carousel image1="69699" image2="69698" image3