This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was inadvertently reminded, thanks to news reports, that he was once a child prodigy who represented the…
I’ve been doing more reading recently, so wanted to share! “Detail of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L.A. Times Festival of Books recently and…
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to say I don’t spend time feeling gratitude; what I mean is that I don’t expend much energy on pondering…
For the last several years, I’ve been getting canker sores around the inside of my bottom lip. If you’ve been lucky enough to never experience them, canker sores are circular…
A few weeks ago, I was reading Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney and someone asked me what it was about. I said that I wasn’t sure, but if I had to…
Day one, again. Campus is different than before. The doors don’t always open. Everybody wears masks. Many of my friends are gone, off to new adventures in far-flung cities. Most…
i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly 2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play august by Taylor Swift on repeat.…
Today I found out that the Friendly Toast in Kendall Square, the location closest to MIT, is closing permanently :( Like many others, I’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of…
In case you missed it, MIT EA decisions come out next Saturday. That’s over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly, chug coffee, drop out of school…
just for fun! What colleges are you applying to? I have like forty on my list, including this one obscure school in Antarctica but it has a good penguin department…
Today is Reg Day, i.e. Registration Day, when MIT students make official their fall schedule (add/drop notwithstanding). Tomorrow is the first day of classes, and the first meeting of CMS.614/21W.791 Network
Other than spending a few hours last night brütally annihilating people in Göd öf Wär III*, I, like everyone else in the office, have spent most of the last week working on stuff for Campus Preview Weekend