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Blog / Challenges
whiplash feelings from yesterday
somehow always manage to feel burnt out at this point in the semester ... more about this school than you did in any previous year, that after ... have a positive impression of) everyone in the room 7pm: you get free -
Blog / Uncategorized
The Concert / The View
that non-concert goers may never understand is waiting. I wait in line, a ... was pleasantly surprised to be around 4th row in GA pit for 5sos. I ... wasn't in San Francisco proper, it was in Concord). COIN - Sept. 23, 2022 -
Blog / Challenges
someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?
about east side culture. i cared that undergrads could paint murals in their dorm hallways and build rollercoasters in their courtyards and get ... did years ago when he lived in floorpi. i tell him about how the culture -
Blog / How to Food
food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking
People in dorms with dining halls occasionally ask me, “So in East ... , I chuck it in my calendar with the event name and room number. Some ... clubs were serving food at their first meetings in order to lure in new -
Blog / Advice
You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application
You may have noticed that the application for the class entering in ... applicants to find inventive new ways to complete the application both in ways we did not intend and in ways entirely contrary to our explicit -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
train of thought on feeling deeply
A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the ... Chinese American narrator figuring out her queerness in the setting of 1950 ... very heavy and likely best consumed in multiple sittings rather than one -
Blog / Challenges
starting over and over again
Starting anything is hard. In fact, starting is often the hardest ... the cover, the pad of post-it's I carry with me at all times in case I ... there are only so many hours in a day, and physical exercise just isn't a -
Blog / Uncategorized
Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app
far, I've deep cleaned my dorm room, put in necessary work orders for ... are there. Next we have "apple," and what I presume to be "apple" in symbols, and then something I likely used in a python assignment? Hm. I have -
Blog / People & Identities
living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self
fall, even in spite of my tremendous workload, made me want to spend time ... 'd done in many months. i wasn't sure what to do—i always prioritized ... with my free time. i hadn't done anything creative in ages, and i never -
Blog / Extracurriculars
self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube
've been dancing...unofficially...for much longer. as I've mentioned in ... studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using YouTube to practice dancing seemed like my best bet. as said in my -
Blog / Miscellaneous
one with nothing making peace with unproductivity
seven. in magic the gathering, a player's hand size is seven cards ... means "i shouldn't be procrastinating on my work". i mean it in the literal sense, where "being productive" means "producing things". in -
Blog / Events
MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15
Hunt is a time-honored tradition, which you can learn more about in CJ ... in order to do it. Puzzles have some sort of answer, which is usually a ... answers in order to find a new answer. A large puzzlehunt like the Mystery -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM
the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop ... in my mind, DOOM was a myth. DOOM was an idea. DOOM was one of those ... off-guard was in that moment I finally realized everything I learned -
Blog / Challenges
and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor
follow. I think to myself, as I'm hunched over my laptop and holed up in ... and strumming a guitar like the sounds playing in my ears? What if I ... in southern Californ--"Where?" I grew up in Los Angeles. "Okay -
Blog / Classes
8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics
.021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I ... class really fun. He's a really down to earth guy who has been really in ... loved this class so so much and wanted to ~ memorialize it ~ in some kind -
Blog / About Decisions
MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET
,’[/annotation]it’s anime. Can you do this for me?” And, with a tear in my eye, I looked at my ... .mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, and then hit “Forgot Your Password?” and follow ... yourself and the people around you. We’re all in this thing together, and we -
Blog / Miscellaneous
quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts
[April 14th, 2020] It’s 4:14 am. I’m sitting in bed, laughing by ... long enough to actually work on my Computation Systems lab due in two ... real anymore. Case in point: at this very moment, snow is falling from -
Blog / How to Food
“I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong
This semester I’ve lived in an apartment with three roommates: one omnivore, one vegetarian, and one vegan. I decided on the day we moved in ... ). I tried to go vegetarian once before, in February, when I stayed on a -
Blog / MIT Life
MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil
Back in July, when the Institvte first accidentally leaked their ... will tuition be?", and "will we get grades in the fall?". Many of us had ... correctly: MIT announced that students in the dorms would be able to bake