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Yesterday, I went thrifting.
When I thrift, I am a girl on a mission. With far too many options and far too little gems, I must be swift and decisive, methodically and quickly moving my way down the racks, pushing hanger after hanger, making split second judgment after judgment.
But yesterday, something gave me pause.
It was a polo: pretty standard, visib...
riven
im excited to move back
to east campus
and cambridge
and be at mit
but i’m also
really stressed
and tired
and upset
thinking about leaving
and having to pack
and unpack all my stuff
and missing all my friends here
in a blog post a few months ago, i talked about my dorm last year (simmons hall) and its architectural eccentricities — its five thousand windows, its foreboding concrete walls, its twisty layout and cuboidal furniture and all its holes and colors.
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As a pre-frosh, excited and stressed for my first year at MIT, I often looked to the blogs for advice. Every question I had seemed to have an answer, thanks to the sheer number of blogs out there and the diverse group of bloggers writing them – diverse in experiences, class years, majors, dorms, clubs, etc.
But there was one thing I couldn’t seem to find anyone writing...
towards the end of october, back in 2024, i was walking back to my dorm and i was about to make the turn from the asphalted footpath that went north from the music building (under construction then) onto vassar st., my thoughts still swimming above me in the elation of starry nights and tall roofs and vents to be crawled over and squeezed through, when i realized that i was h...