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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 / Athletics
take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again
two years ago i wrote about how to walk in the best way. but i forgot to think about something important: the type and form of the foot. now i… -
Blog / Athletics
dance dance revolution lessons from ddr
there is a ddr (dance dance revolution) machine in the basement of walker memorial. i have known this fact for at least a year, but didn’t bother actually checking out… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
last concert
my last concert with the mit ohms, my a cappella group, happened around two weeks ago usually we hire a sound company to handle sound on the day of the… -
Blog / How to Human
stories and decision paralysis
a few weeks ago someone wanted to shoot a music video and needed a few dozen extras in the background, so they made a big group chat and added me… -
Blog / How to Human
winning embracing positive-sum
for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was because of the academic environment i was raised in – other people doing well on… -
Blog / Challenges
uncertainty becoming a boring adult
recently i looked through a list of all my friends who graduated from college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to me now than they… -
Blog / Challenges
whiplash feelings from yesterday
november 29th, 2022 10am: you attend nano lecture but are unable to focus on the class because you feel BURNOUT. you think about how you somehow always manage to feel… -
Blog / Challenges
magicians trying to learn magic
in april my friend recommended the excellent article becoming a magician Not only is any sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable from magic; any sufficiently advanced technologist seems like a magician… Even… -
Blog / Challenges
sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment
in my favorite naruto scene, a samurai and a ninja charge at each other. everyone expects their blades to collide in midair, but instead, this is the result: the samurai’s… -
Blog / Challenges
novelty the closest thing to time travel
i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the first three weeks each felt blissfully long, as if i’d found a way to… -
Blog / Challenges
avatar a weird metaphor for careers
over spring break i met a grad student. we were talking about why they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they said something along… -
Blog / Challenges
speculation also a post about touching grass
i’ve known for a while that i’m a pretty awful conversationalist. my strengths in conversations are listening and asking questions, but when people ask me questions i often pause for… -
Blog / Academics & Research
2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list
). 7) We finally saw Loving Vincent with more friends from Burton Conner -
Blog / MIT Life
Closer Calls and rising unease
Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria’s capital. I frequent it often for my electronic needs—to replace printer ink or buy new paper sheets,… -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair
There are two things MIT students love—punts and puzzles. What a puzzle is—that’s pretty straightforward. A punt is more intricate, and is typically often used as a verb. It refers… -
Blog / About Decisions
Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?
Waiting is hard. Waiting is incredibly hard. Well, I guess that depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever really been patient. When… -
Blog / Admissions
More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!
an NBC camera crew after me) with pictures of Vincent's cat. I still -
Blog / Research & Work Abroad
love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility
been plunged untethered into the center of the universe, submerged in a ... , but it was offered with such care that in some way I enjoyed it anyway ... productive conversation with someone whose language I don’t speak, or offer