Getting older
People talk about adolescence as if it’s the time when you get to decipher your future… but as I’m nearing the end of mine, I feel even more lost.
Why do we travel?
The pressure to go out and see as much as you possibly can is exacerbated by the fact that everyone around you seems to be doing it too. Everyone else is having a real thrilling, young people’s jet-set European summer — I mean, shouldn’t I be having one too? Social Media Blurb: Musings on travel culture.
It’s time to listen to Kip Clark
Ever seen that guy with the “Free Listening” sign?
Unpluq encourages users to unplug from their smartphones
From May to July, I used Unpluq, a phone habit tool designed for reducing screen time on smartphones.
On New York City and, more generally, food
NYC gave me Chappell Roan, bagels, and jerk chicken. What about Boston?
Lonesome traveler
I found something in Lonesome Traveler and in Kerouac — whose life and work was fueled by movement, by hitchhiking and catching trains and being On the Road — that made me start to think more deeply about what exactly it meant to travel, to ‘see the world,’ as we are so often told to do when we are young.
Why didn’t anyone tell me the doors would still close?
Why didn’t anyone tell me, even after I’ve managed to do the impossible and enter the big doors of MIT, that the doors inside would still slam in my face?
Boundary Testing
I want to push past the extreme ends of what I know and do a bit of boundary testing.
Questions?
The feedback loop in your own mind is the greatest way to sharpen your questions.
On graduating and leaving French House
The idea of graduation didn’t feel real until my friend and I submitted our final project for a class the night before the last day of classes.
Do I have friends?
Any sentence that starts with “I just don’t feel…” is a self-fulfilling prophecy
Current students respond to questions from the Class of 2029
The Tech asked students admitted to the MIT Class of 2029 to share questions they had for the Institute's current students. Then, the student body was invited over email to answer.
eleven
life lesson: if you have to convince yourself that you’re not in love with someone, you’re probably in love with them.
Things that changed my brain chemistry this IAP
Life at MIT — more like London
On Friend “Groups”
some context: in high school i was extremely antisocial, but i’ve honestly realized a lot of it was self-imposed in some way or another. i am trying to change that in college, and i genuinely have! i’m a freshman, and this year i’ve made more friends here than during all of high school. i feel more confident and outgoing, which i think has also done numbers for my mental health — i love that i am able to talk to people now.