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Unleashing my inner rockstar

Unleashing my inner rockstar

Becoming a BollyX fitness instructor during grad school—and a pandemic

March 12, 2021 | Neha B.

How can we have work-life balance when the “work” part is infinite? This was my excuse for not prioritizing exercise when I came to grad school. In reality, I was drowning in insecurity. I despised every form of exercise while I was growing up. In school, I always had the slowest mile (by far), and […]

Forced to leave home

Forced to leave home

MIT Grad Housing’s Disorganized Response to COVID-19

April 6, 2020 | Neha B.

A message to MIT grad housing: if your tenant’s best housing option is to haphazardly make a 13-hour interstate drive in the middle of a literal plague after being given only two days’ notice, you are doing something horribly wrong. I live in one of the graduate dorms — Ashdown House — and I absolutely […]