brooklyn is pretty interesting. the view is not as therapeutic as looking out into the wilderness at truchas but still nice in its own right and way better than being stuck in suburbia. the main downside is that the streets are fairly noisy at night, so sometimes it’s hard to sleep since i’m only one … Continue reading more value judgments

i played around with messenger rooms pretty frequently during december and january, but that’s probably coming to an end. as alluded to in the previous post i’m in new york now, after numerous flight delays from snowstorms, and i'm with people 24/7 again so i imagine i won’t feel the urge to create rooms as … Continue reading living well is the best help

it looks like i’ll be in new york, specifically williamsburg/brooklyn, for february and march, and either home or some other place from april to may. i spent a few weeks looking for other mit students to live with in the cambridge area, but for one reason or another they all either decided to stay home, … Continue reading negotiation

i don't even know what this post is about, but i think it has more potential for disagreement than anything else i've written recently so uhh have fun i guess so people convinced me to look into buying stocks and bitcoin. i downloaded robinhood and bought some things but it’s been a bit underwhelming and … Continue reading some analysis

i downloaded my facebook messenger data and did some analysis on it. well, actually, other people already wrote most of the code for the analysis and i just made some edits, but i get eg. graphs of my activity from 2016-2020 (colors correspond to different people, ordered by when we first began talking) the results … Continue reading at least you have beautiful ghosts

the last few blog posts had all been headed towards the previous post, in my mind at least, so i’m not entirely sure what i want to write about now. the past four-ish weeks have been all over the place and incredibly busy so i guess it just makes more sense to describe everything chronologically … Continue reading should i live on-campus next semester

on our second night in truchas we laid down on the balcony and stared up into the sky. it was my first time seeing hundreds of stars at once and you could barely make out the shape of the milky way, but with a better camera and longer exposures you could capture thousands of stars … Continue reading it’s such a beautiful day

it’s not that i have anything against this thanksgiving, but to celebrate we talked about things we’re grateful for and cooked elaborate foods, and both of these are things that we sort of do pretty frequently in the house (at least once a week) so i didn’t really feel any different, but that’s okay. expressing … Continue reading thanksgiving never felt more empty

I.  i only realized recently how easy it is to forget something. you just clear your mind, do your best to stop thinking about it, and if you’re busy enough your conscious brain forgets all the details in a few weeks or months. people i cared about kept telling me how surprised they were that … Continue reading flames

i feel like i'm slowly forgetting all the info i ever knew about people whom i don't talk to frequently. historically i would just remember everything i observed about people but it's possible i no longer have the bandwidth to keep doing that anymore. forgetting is a bit sad, but i guess this is also … Continue reading all the little things