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MyMIT is fixed! The deadline for EA has been extended to November 5 due to the recent MyMIT…
The site is back online and peace has been restored to my world. :-) The last two days have been somewhat insane, but I'm glad everything has returned to normal. Maybe I'll actually have some time to blog next week -
Blog / Athletics
Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking
A few months ago, May. When I'm away from you, I'm happier than ever ... that reach the rest of town. I don’t know if I’m just tired from a ... because I'm tired. I hate the way that I’m not charismatic enough to -
Blog / Challenges
Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable
1: Learn the building numbers – 99% complete. I'm SO CLOSE. I just had ... Pirate Certificate – 25% complete. In my defense, I'm really trying to take ... I'm okay with never completing this sidequest :) Sidequest 3: Collect -
Blog / Admissions
Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.
MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I'm ... people or the world, and that I'm not smart enough to pursue what I want to pursue in math/science. 4. I'm worried that I'm never going to find a -
Blog / How to Human
regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!
where I remain silent adds another weight of guilt onto my back and I'm really unsure how to deal with it. I think part of it is because I'm a ... , knowing that I'm not alone, it's simultaneously very raw and scary. I know -
Blog / Challenges
starting over and over again
wish I did make time for exercise, but there also isn't anything I'm willing to sacrifice. Something has to change, fundamentally, and I'm still ... , and I do enjoy it. So, now that I'm living in my own apartment this -
Blog / Academics & Research
keeping interest a list of things i think are cool
with my life and my time. I'm currently on a track at MIT to pursue EECS ... 've talked about this in past blogposts, but I'm definitely growing out of this ... them interesting. Which I do. Then there are more general areas I'm -
Blog / People & Identities
[Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t
, right? As you can tell by my sarcasm, no. I’m laughing about my elaborate ... . I never said “I’m gay.” I told her “Can I hangout with him?” Like ... -American heritage often have to come out “in actions rather than words.” When I’m at -
Blog / Challenges
Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process
the situation was my fault--I'm a natural introvert and boredom and ... sophomore spring, by happenstance, I found my lab--the same lab I'm working ... way. I'm now technically an MEng, or Master's of Engineering student -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.
bottom of the social food chain. You get what I'm saying, right? Well ... 'll never be as productive as Mollie, for example. I read her blog and I'm like "what?! she...how does she...I don't get it." I personally think I'm -
Blog / Internships & Externships
A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!
her blog post, I'm also trying to make a more conscious effort to catch ... 's quite surfaced yet :') That being said, I'm working in Washington, DC ... was soon whisked away on an airplane to land in DC. I'm working at a -
Blog / MIT Life
making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles
job on IQ-TREE has been running for more than an hour. For my UROP, I'm ... according to the concentration of those molecules. Right now, I'm trying to ... alignment, over and over again. --- "I'm so obsessed and -
Blog / Academics & Research
they want to see you fail managing others' envy
—it’s like I’m claiming there’s something about me or what I have that is so ... , although I’m not sure how effective that approach would’ve been. Maybe he ... unrelated to math. In retrospect, I’m not entirely sure how I should -
Blog / How to Human
things that went well reflections on my first semester
, later, because I’m still only figuring it out. I’m so grateful to have ... II"]8.022[/annotation] this fall showed me that there’s a reason I’m ... , I’m glad I was able to at least to branch out in small ways. I took -
Blog / Classes
Last Lap and hoping to finish strong
, and I'm still traumatized from the very short period of time in which I ... possible. 6.837 (Computer Graphics): I'm hesitant to even put this class on ... taking this, because I was going to do SuperUROP instead, but since I'm -
Blog / How to Human
Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school
"This is the first day of my life I'm glad I didn't die before I met ... March due to COVID. Honestly, I'm still kind of numb because I'm still in ... undergrad experience have, at this point, come and passed. I'm clinging onto -
Blog / Challenges
Seattle The siren call of real adult life
history. I don't know, and that bothers me. But what I do know is that I'm ... pursue a field that I'm interested in to mastery. I would, however, need to ... , and I'm getting tired of planning out my future. Somehow, though, this -
Blog / Summer
Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro
new vigor and confidence in learning actual CS things. I'm really proud ... horizontally or even collapse them. But then I decided I needed m o r e. I moved ... to keep track of ~cool CS things I did not know about~. Right now, I'm -
Blog / How to Human
the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?
the Zoom camera a couple times to sneak some snacks? Say less" but now I'm ... thins like I'm doing then I'd feel less subconscious about it LOL but if I'm ... . And of course, you know I'm with you. In this new digital world order we