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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
[joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center
Shuli: The new MIT Welcome Center opened in Kendall Square in ... filled with student art. In this post, Kidist and I teamed up to tell you ... ‘20 were very involved in!) originally founded in 2017 to paint a long -
Blog / How to Human
friendful life recently
me it was really sweet how that person described their experience in ... night in my early years here. i treat myself like i would an old friend. i take my shortcomings in stride and i don't shy away from acknowledging my -
Blog / Uncategorized
★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023
-term living situation. Which has meant… a few too many Amazon packages. In ... , and I feel like some of my overthinking actually paid off. Thus, in ... hereby invite you to partake in this multi-course meal: a curated selection -
Blog / How to Human
hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger
quiet mountain, and then realize we had to walk back."]in fall,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson ... outside my house. The river in Tucson is dry, always has been, but it goes -
Blog / Classes
plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762
’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d write a poem in our own time and then read ... ’ve never really written poetry beyond the flowery text in my zine comics, so ... out in an office where everyone else is a man, including one who “loves -
Blog / Challenges
ambition finding direction
in cities and ambition, paul graham writes: “Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred ... brains in Silicon Valley, the message the Valley sends is: you should be -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me
year, I've felt a decided shift in the air. I've mentioned it before, jokingly referring this period as my "nice era" to my friends. In this new ... available. I waited in line for 20 minutes. Normally, irritation would itch -
Blog / How to Human
you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense
me. I started watching it with my high school boyfriend in junior year ... perhaps every character, big and small, strange and weird, has some good in ... season 6, due to just life happening. School was starting up back in person -
Blog / CPW
how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this
event on Sunday that people shockingly showed up to, despite me putting in almost 0 planning, and I asked them why they would willingly indulge in another virtual event when they have in-person ones to look forward to this -
Blog / Classes
day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?
. 09:55. one of the nice things about living in east campus is that all ... because this is one out of only two in-person lectures, the other one being ... ended. the classroom was in 34-101, and my next thing was in 34-501, so i -
Blog / Challenges
insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense
that a glass wall in my head shattered, because up until then i hadn ... walls have i been trapped in without ever realizing it? there are rules ... intelligent things in conversations, which tends to begin as a deliberate choice -
Blog / How to Food
rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill
't had a rice cooker in forever. And oh man was it a great decision to get one. We love rice cookers here in the blogs, and for good reason. First ... so easy to use. They're actually magic in how they work. You put the -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess
's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests ... . The delta in my personhood is literally entirely due to MIT. So, as a ... that is a big component of what i look for in good friends. freshman year -
Blog / MIT Life
fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things
I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... 's filled with. MIT, in my experience, has been filled with essays and exams ... that barely matters in the broad scope of life. But they're fun details -
Blog / Academics & Research
Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)
existing productivity apps because they had limited formatting (in terms of ... summer, I finally started using Notion! It's an all-in-one workspace that ... in browser or download the app to your computer. It's free, and you can -
Blog / People & Identities
an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes
="a volleyball anime lol i'm not even interested in sports ... spent binging 400+ chapters of it while in Japan four years ago"]Tower of ... friends again, I can't help but reconsider anime's presence in my life. It -
Blog / Extracurriculars
A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT
, fyi"]taking 66 units[/annotation]. I had probably hoped that in a future ... 'd go over them in this blog post and see which subset of them I ... only problem is that they’re all in Japanese and take me eons to read -
Blog / MIT Life
Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor
In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... breaking down in the middle of the loopty loop or like my legs just seized up ... even just students in general. This was a confession posted recently on -
Blog / How to MIT
MIT-ish on being MIT enough
MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this ... ." I've found solace in my writing classes and creative outlets: writing ... 'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student