Angeline

I cut my ankle and it lowkey bled everywhere. I was standing in a puddle of blood that was gathered in my knock-off crocs (thank god I wasn't wearing an actual shoe because that would be annoying asf to deal with) and it was a rather awkward situation to deal with overall imo. Now I'm seated at my desk, which is next to my bed, and I have my legs up on my bed (which is so very nice and warm and cozy) and I think to myself, what better way to spend my time injured than to update my blog? For the...

OMG ALL THE HAPPY PREFROSH ON CAMPUS their excitement is contagious (i'm literally more excited than some of them). Why study for test when I can talk to prefrosh and write about talking to prefrosh. But seriously though, why is there even class over cpw??? Why do I have a test during cpw???? I want to hang out with the prefrosh and pump them up and get them to comMIT. Oh yeah, btw, CPW (Campus Preview Weekend) is a weekend lasting 3.14 days where adMITted students come and visit MIT! Over thi...

It's Marathon Monday, and I don't have anything to do, nor much work to get done. And so we continue on the coffee shop grind. It's also such a nice day, it'd be a shame if I spent the entire day indoors. I might make this into a series. I should really lean into the foodie part of me. According to online reviews, this place is highly rated for vibes and their healthy food options. There is a wide variety of smoothies and smoothie bowls, along with regular brunch items (toast, sandwiches, wa...

It was raining today, but since there wasn't a very strong wind, I push forwards on my cafe hopping journey. Today, I crossed the river to hit up this coffee shop near Berklee and Northeastern. I've been trying to taste more local-crafted coffees and this was one of the shops that did that. I actually biked here so I was soaked when I arrived. I also did not sleep as much as I should on break last night, so the cup of coffee is appreciated. Render Coffee Rating: 3/5 Location: 563 Columbus Ave...

I did not have breakfast this morning, and I was rushing to go to a meeting that I found out was cancelled when I arrived (I did not have time in the morning to check before I left), and so I made my way here without much preparation. It's a bit away from campus, but since I was on the east side of campus, and this place was located east of campus, I decided to make my way here. Unfortunately for me, this place sells waffles as their only food item, and so I was kind of disappointed that I cou...

It's located in Central, where Hmart and Target is, which is where I plan on going after I have my little lunch here. Good location for grocery shopping after :). I don't know what a kouign-amann is, so I purchased one because it would be a shame if I kept going to coffeeshops without buying at least one pastry (ouch wallet). 1369 Coffeehouse Rating: 4.5/5 Location: 757 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 Ordered: Latte (4.95), Basic Bird sandwich (11.50), Kouign-Amann (5) Time spent: 2.25...

dragging myself out of my room every morning to avoid the brainrot, but also developing a caffeine addiction and wasting my mother's money (sorry mom) I make no claims about being a food expert and knowing anything about coffee (i've never drank coffee seriously before). These are obviously my opinions, and there are people who are way more qualified to give their opinion on food than I am. As I was walking to my last (and only) class on Friday, not counting the class that I always skip, I b...

It's such a nice day outside. The sun is shining and I don't have to battle the wind that bites at your skin and chills you to the bone whenever I walk outside. It feels like it's summer, and it just makes me smile and be happy in general. There are people outside in the field that my room overlooks playing frisbee and soccer. They're blasting some kind of rap music which is just a little bit annoying since I have my window open (I can finally open my window!) People like sun in general. It mak...

Disclaimer: obviously this is my personal opinion, so don't flame me? Every library has a 24/7 space that is a strict subset of the entire library that is open 24/7. When the library closes, students (and other members of the MIT community) must relocate to the 24/7 space to work. It's probably the only places that have security cameras or something so they know you're not destroying books or whatever collections they're hiding. Anyways, I distinguish between these two parts of the library, si...

I went to a cafe to grind out some psets today. I ordered myself a little latte (I've decided that I'm a latte girl now), a slice of pistachio cheesecake, and a chicken pesto prosciutto sandwich. I got there with my friend at around 11:30. We were planning on visiting another cafe called Cicada, but it's really popular and there was a wait to get inside. So we ended up in some chain Italian cafe that had decent vibes. My friend left halfway through to get groceries, so I was chilling by myself f...

That too familiar, too dreaded clench in my chest, a disgusting taste of dry acid in my esophagus, I want to spit it out, heave it out, but nothing comes out except stale air. It's all in my head. Remember, it's not real, your mind is just confused, tricking you, it doesn't know you're moving when you're not moving, or was it the other way around? I forgot. I forget easily. I get lost easy, lost in the silly feelings I make worse myself. Breathe (in). Don't stop (out) breathing (in). When...

Tomorrow's a snow day and I'm sitting on my bed looking all silly with a face mask that my friend gifted me on my birthday four months ago, that I haven't found a moment in the last four months to lay it on my face for 15-20 minutes and just chill. It's not really that I don't have time, because that's never really the case, it's just that I haven't made time for it. Like how I haven't made the time to write in more than just a hot second. But it's okay, because I have the time now to write,...

I was catching up with a friend yesterday and I asked her: "What is the hardest thing for you to adjust to in college?" Her response was that maintaining friendships was hard now. She talked about her experiences, and I realized that she was vocalizing what I also felt. So here I am today to talk about it. When you're in high school, she explained, your friends were people that you meet on a regular basis, whether it be through classes or some kind of recurring extracurricular activity. You do...

I started writing these a really long time ago, and I was scrolling through my old drafts and I thought this one is one of the easier ones to polish up and publish. I see so many people on campus ride bicycles without their hands. They aren't going that fast either. And they can also turn?? I can barely take turns without falling over. Well, being on the weird BlueBikes is definitely not helpful. I think part of it does have something to do with the bikes they have. Honestly, I think it's just...

IAP is too short man. You're telling me that we're a fourth of the way through already? Independent Activities Period (IAP) runs during the month of January and is a period of time where MIT students get the chance to pursue individual projects. For example, some classes that are running this IAP are WebLab, bike building, generative AI and music, Pokerbots, and glassblowing. The beginner level language classes are also available, though those are quite time-intensive. I know someone who's in J...

Overall, like 6/10. Kinda mid. I mean, it's well thought out and everything, but like there wasn't really anything that I gained out of it. I only really read it because I'm a math major and every math major knows about it or something. Yeah, it's more of a mathematical pop culture phenomenon rather than an actually great book. This will be short because I really don't have much to say about it. I mean, the first half (and mind you this book is like 100 pages) is spent explaining the world of ...

Can your days be wholly uneventful and still pass by very quickly? Yes. There's something called online competitive video games. I think I planned for winter break to be a time for me to relax and reset into the kind of activities I was doing before school started. During college application season, I used to game like 20 hours a week as a kind of coping mechanism for all the stress I was under, because having to shoot people before they shoot you was less stressful than writing about myself. ...

Lying on the floor, thumb searching the endless feed. What am I looking for? ...

I've survived a semester at MIT! It's honestly flown by, but so much has happened. In somewhat chronological order: Splurging on room decorations, Mario Tennis, a short-lived attempt at cooking for myself, listening to my friends' boy dramas, my own boy dramas, whining about 8.01, so many trips across the Harvard and BU bridge, ChatGPT, BSO concerts, at least 500 dollars worth of Venmo transactions, Costco trip, drugs, matcha drinks, the first birthday cakes and birthday parties I've had in a l...

To avoid the inevitable brain rot that will occur if I stay in my dorm all day, I find myself here, at the big library in Harvard, tippy-tapping at my laptop while whoever's left of the students here are doing their law or medicine or whatever readings. This place is a lot nicer than any of MIT's libraries, that's for sure. The marble ceilings are incredibly tall, with nice little skylights and hanging chandeliers. The bookshelves are a deep brown and the furniture is too, and everything just ha...

Yeah, I know you, dear reader, probably know me in real life. I mean it's much more probable than some random person chancing on my blog. Sometimes, you're a guy who's into me or something. Let me know if that's you, I guess. But also do you even want to date me, after seeing some of the stuff I write? Some of you are friends. I don't know how I feel about you seeing this side of me. It's okay, I guess. I hope this doesn't change the way you see me. The point is, I'm not writing for you. I'm wri...

It has been 21 days since my last post. What happened to updating every week, indeed. Oh my, remember when I said I was going to write everyday? Things change. Plans change. I suppose that's life for you. I suppose, I say, because I'm not actually sure. I'm not actually sure about a lot of things, but I'm working on it. So yeah, a lot of things have happened in the past 21 days. I'll walk you through it. I was planning on writing over Thanksgiving break, but then I thought to myself, "I sh...

7/10. Spoilers, again. Yes, I was crying for basically all of it after Waymond gave his little speech. Now usually I would give movies that make me cry a really really high score (because part of what makes a good piece of media to me is its ability to make me feel things), but in this case I think I only cried because the theme or the moral of the movie was really topical to my life at the moment. It's kind of cheesy, in general, and so I don't think I can give it a high score. Let's talk a...

I really liked it! Solid 8/10. Spoilers, obviously. I actually started watching The Platform when it came out in 2019. I stopped at the part where the old man (Trimagasi) started cutting into the main character's (Goreng's) leg, because I thought there was going to be blood and cannibalism and I could not take it. This time, I was watching it while playing Honkai Impact, so I just looked away when that happened. I was surprised to see the crazy mother (Miharu) stun Trimagasi and kill him. Th...

Note: I can guarantee that all the quotes in this post (and in all posts in general) are not correct. I don't remember exactly what these people said, only the sentiment that they were trying to convey. Or at least, the sentiment that I believe they were trying to convey. It's so funny that in the previous post, I wrote that I am spontaneous and on the same day my friends tell me that I'm the least spontaneous person that they know. Or at least, in their words, "You would be the first person I...

My birthday post didn't do this topic justice. I should talk a little bit more about what the milestone of adulthood. I suppose I haven't really thought about it much on that day, given that I was preoccupied with a quiz in a class that I wasn't doing so hot in (and I'm proud to announce that I scored higher than I thought I was going to and earned a very solid C, rather than being on the cusp of failing like in the last quiz). I will take a quick digression to mention that after the second qu...

Yes, I know, I didn't update in the past weekend. I was so caught up with the quiz that I have to take on my birthday today that I just didn't give myself the time to study for it. Couple that with some questionable late night decisions meant no time in the morning for me to sit down with some kind of warm beverage and sit in my feelings. Let me tell you, I have sat in my feelings over the last week. I have sat in them and I have not put them here because I realize that people who know me read...

There are too many things that happen in one week. It's been a crunch week for me, but I think I've handled it pretty well. I started all of my psets pretty late, but I managed to turn them in on time. Well, except for my physics pset, which I thought was due at 11:59, but it was in fact due at 11:00. It's okay though, one pset is only worth 1% of our grade. I did decently well on the first midterm (I'm not sure why we call every test either a midterm or a quiz), so I'll definitely be able to pa...

I have an extension cord with three plugs. I have three devices that I need to charge. However, I can only use two at a time because Apple adapters are fat. Update: I can now use all three because I received a shiny new iPad Pro 13 inches or whatever because I do MITWE (wind ensemble) and we read sheet music on it. Life is good. Last week I said it should be fine to leave rice in my rice cooker. I opened it today after a couple days. There were spots of mold. I washed that bad boy very rigorou...

So far, I have sustained two cuts. They are both on my left hand. They are both a result of being lazy and not using a cutting board. I have obviously not learned my lesson because there are now two cuts, and not just one. I was even cutting the same vegetable on two different occasions. To be fair, the second cut was much less substantial than the first because I was trying to be more careful about not cutting myself, but not careful enough to use a cutting board apparently. I still will not us...