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What the Puck?

What the Puck?

How a new sport helped me find clarity in grad school

May 6, 2019 | Carly S.

In my first year of graduate school, I fell on my butt a lot. It’s as if I would forget about my feet. I would be gliding along smoothly, comfortably shifting from one skate to the other, but if a puck slid in my direction — and I had to get it! — my skates […]

A Corridor full of Giants

A Corridor full of Giants

My transition from a tiny college to MIT

April 1, 2019 | Carly S.

If you told me in high school that I would go to MIT, I definitely wouldn’t have believed you. And if I had, I would have been terrified of the future. Although I certainly was not sheltered from most aspects of life, I would say that I was, to some extent, sheltered academically. I went […]