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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy
is like 10 pages of blog, and I still have more to say!"]There's a lot ... , entertainment and media as an industry, and the power of a holiday special. I could probably write three of four different blog posts about just what I -
Blog / How to Food
sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor
first name of disputed etymology, like most Roman first names, but thought ... nourished by the university."]Aulus.[/annotation] (Me: "Mom, if you were my ... should be bubbles. And I have bubbles. But after one whole week of no -
Blog / Personal Projects
10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year
again and again to offer help to them. I was one of few women in the shop ... building project is like a sidequest: fully unnecessary and a lot of work, but also what is the point of the game if you do zero sidequests? I do -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Week 1 ...of Year 2.
free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard ... blogger; this post is an introduction. I’m coming off the levity of the best ... stations connect to malls, each of which seems to connect to five more. My -
Blog / Academics & Research
Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*
, it looks more like this because who even goes to all of their classes ... ’t going to attend any of my Monday classes) Sophomore Standing If you ... gets rid of the 57 unit credit limit that second semester freshmen -
Blog / How to Human
I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?
in this corner of the universe with anyone who chooses to listen in ... this place. My semester has been a literal oscillation between weeks of a ... : Midterms really don't equate too much in the grand scheme of things. Work -
Blog / About Decisions
The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.
fact, I would guess that the type of housing MIT offers(students choose ... boxes of Chinese food during CPW. Is there a place on campus to get this food and where?" The boxes you saw came from one of the campus food -
Blog / Admissions
What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.
would not recommend reading) gave a lot of advice that sounded like this ... —I mean, these tips certainly make a lot of sense in hindsight, but they ... -achieving peers. I did not have a unifying passion, just a handful of scattered -
Blog / IAP
incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row
again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about ... myself busy and attempt to be an actual college student. I made a lot of promises in the beginning of the year that I have not kept. I said I would -
Blog / MIT Life
I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times
every flavour of Oreo offered in the northeast US, as there are many more ... As I write this we are just east of Buffalo. My mom is driving; my ... of those," my dad laughs. We are headed to Cambridge, to MIT. My -
Blog / MIT Life
Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.
dinner, I brought out my stacks of books and offered my friends ... , have dinner with an older one, and attend the latest iteration of the Wandering Cricket Night Market after a thunderstorm. Now, after dozens of -
Blog / Academics & Research
How hard is it, really? Let down
had nothing to offer me but to tell me to practice. At the start of the ... diagnostic when you first get to campus. The results of the diagnostic help you ... hardest) is best for you. The results of my math diagnostic said that I was -
Blog / How to Food
[Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4
Why do I cook? It’s a question that many of my friends have asked me ... ” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining ... .[/annotation] Junior year was a period of introspection, exploration, and experimentation -
Blog / Miscellaneous
when the world gets too heavy put it on my back
future and my childhood and just a whole slew of things that i can't really ... ...general presence and the spaces i inhabit and my role in all of this. i've been dwelling on my high school self, living in the crevices of tumblr and slowly -
Blog / MIT Life
and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!
shiny new return offer to go back and work on Minecraft next summer. Yes ... incredible excited for a lot of these classes, but mostly just the prospect of ... instead of being cooped up in my room. But really the whole point of this -
Blog / MIT Life
Balancing Act… ...or not
sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear of failure. My first few weeks at MIT have seen me pick out the major -
Blog / Athletics
Sexy MIT Engineers My
of an accomplishment. But! I learned so much on the sidelines from the veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player ... form of shin splints. I asked around for advice and got plenty: Stretch -
Blog / Hacks
This was meant to be written a week and a half ago
ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and I'd heard rumors of Caltech coming to claim it. The Monday after CPW - I enjoyed seeing so very many of you, by the way :) - I was asleep -
Blog / MIT Life
4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.
. Lucky that I did, because the thing was FREAKING COVERED WITH A COLONY OF ... took it back to the bathroom to wash it off. 10:12 -- There's a bag of ... 's on the list. I hope something more interesting than this bag of Oreos