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Blog / MIT Life
40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…
with the taste of fresh complaints in my mouth, trying to wrestle down ... of inefficient breathing. Inhale: one exam in quantum mechanics, three ... ensemble due in a week. Exhale: raw spring air blistering against penuriously -
Blog / How to Food
Come together (and eat)
one of these dorms, you're required to buy a dining hall meal plan, in ... comments I read in other blogs. But I saw one I just couldn't resist over in ... walk in anytime and find some friends to sit down with, and I feel like I -
Blog / Personal Travel
In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan -
unspoken rules in a way that gets buy in from everyone? How can any of this ... on the street. I stand in front of a store eating a vending machine ice cream, like how I've seen others stand in front of food stalls -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…
from buying alcohol in off-licences and set a minimum price at which a ... In today's The Sunday Times, one of the United Kingdom's most ... , Scotland, authors an article commenting on alcohol culture in the US and her -
Blog / MIT Life
four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces
; when I had time alone, I listened to some of my favorite chilling-in ... two classes and a UROP in the Stata Center and became obsessed with their lentil dal. Over March Break, I met my parents in LA, hit up so many -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting
shelf in all its strawberry glory. [caption id="attachment_85727" align ... working in a wet lab after two attempts at computational UROPs that I ... percentage of people in the lab that don't drive, including my supervisors, and -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.
, "will," without much of a change in meaning. "I will buy that book" means ... So, here it is, the inaugural post in my new book review blog idea. The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off -
Blog / Life after MIT
Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention
feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the ... thing? Someone let me know in the comments 😉); my favorite Hayden Library ... ’ll delight in for the rest of my life, probably in part because many of my -
Blog / MIT Life
See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…
, remember in the summer when you used to get nice, well-cropped color pictures in immaculately-high resolution? That's all over now. There's an ... , please don't read any further. Just enjoy my witty repartee in the -
Blog / People & Identities
requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher
by one. I don’t buy from those stores, even in Boston. I run by the ... ’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You ... gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry -
Blog / MIT Life
iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!
are buzzing... the semester seems to be in full swing. This semester is ... set on pursuing a degree in course 16 (aero/astro engineering). After a couple courses in the department, I determined that this was not the career -
Blog / How to Human
Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…
’re in season you can buy crates of clementines at Shaw’s. After ... passed and I didn’t die and I wasn’t scared anymore. Sleeping in a loft has ... an open window I get a cool breeze at night and the light of the sun in -
Blog / How to Food
Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.
there's a Saferide in case you overload yourself and end up buying four ... asymptomatic again and the cycle repeats). So I'm in the reading room. It's a beautiful study room in the fifth floor of the student center that was -
Blog / Travel
spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen
The media portrays spring break in college is super-fun, adventure ... wanted to show us the southwest, Sophia wanted to buy a cowboy hat, and ... it in New Orleans, so I told myself I needed to finish the paper by the -
Blog / Classes
to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall
particularly difficult during the month of December. Anything I can't buy in ... exaggerating."]10 hours.[/annotation] Buy some new everyday shoes. The black ... applesauce.[/annotation] To be done by whenever really, but I haven't posted in -
Blog / MISTI
Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…
There are no directions in Japan. The buildings are numbered, but in ... Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty -
Blog / Internships & Externships
i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early
sit in an empty Zoom room for thirty minutes; during this time, I sent several emails, bumping the founders ("Hey! I'm in the Zoom." "Hey! Let me ... the pay: in high school, I did plenty of miserable jobs. But now I -
Blog / About Decisions
Defying Gravity
, whatever result you have, will take it in stride and move forward. Throughout all of my years in school, especially during the seven years studying ... , here are some cool things I did last week! I was in London twice, once -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
#Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni
experienced in my always interesting (if occasionally miserable) time trudging ... background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page ... they're whining about is that in 2006, the writer of Doonesbury put up a