Productivity After Chaos
A semester from hell showed me which productivity practices work for me
This summer, I spent much of my free time digging through my high school diaries. I was a boring diary writer—instead of long entries detailing friendship drama or failed crushes, most of my diary entries were to-do lists and resolutions. “Write paper,” “get up at 5:30 AM,” “5 miles of running per week,” and so […]
Cambridge in the In-Between Moments
A brief guide to the city’s finest unplanned programming
Some of my favorite moments in Cambridge weren’t planned. They weren’t the kinds of things you’d mark on a calendar or schedule your week around. They just happened, quietly and unexpectedly, while I was trying to get home, find dinner, or avoid doing my laundry for the third night in a row. And I’ve noticed […]
Trading the Field for the Lab
How I rediscovered my connections to the natural world at MIT
Many of us are drawn to science by questions we have not found satisfying answers to. During my undergraduate I worked as a research assistant in a field ecology lab, and I fell in love with biology through the patterns and connections found in nature that I could not find a complete description of. In […]
My Ironman preparation: zero to Ironman in 7 months
My journey from having no experience in endurance sports to running an Ironman
When I decided to train for an Ironman, I wasn’t coming in with a background in endurance sports; I was starting from scratch. For me, it wasn’t about chasing numbers or obsessing over the fanciest gear; it was about stepping away from the pressure and seeing what would happen if I simply tried to do […]
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Memories, Monuments, and the Magic of a City at Night
“Where are you?” A buzz in my pocket. A text from Mir. I quickly responded, “Just 10 minutes.” I knew it was not just 10 minutes. I was at least half an hour away. But I couldn’t say that to Mir. Mir, Vasu, and Shaurya were waiting outside the station. “I’m very late. They will […]
