Author Archives: alixiy

last week was my frat’s (tEp!) work week—a week where we fixed and cleaned up various things around our house. while i’m not living at tEp during the semester, i helped out with a few tasks: purging and cleaning fridges, landscaping, and cleaning out rooms. however, the most important task i took on was acquiringContinue reading “how to acquire 19 chairs and explore boston”

figuring out how to feed myself is harder than it seems. while i had plenty of practice with cooking at east campus, i still have a hard time with planning out meals and gathering the motivation to cook regularly. nonetheless, i enjoyed the food i consumed last week so i wanted to share! saturday: iContinue reading “what i ate last week”

Quite a few things happened during my break from blogging. I submitted the admissions blogger application. I flew back to Boston. My internship ended. I started to taper off my antidepressants. I received very good news about the music I was working on in July. I got platform Dr. Martens. I started blogging in uppercaseContinue reading “wanting it all”

This summer I’m interning at Rivet, a startup helping creators connect with their audiences. My internship is part of MIT Sloan’s Pozen Fellowship Program, which matches undergraduate students with MIT alumni-founded startups. I’m doing frontend software development on Rivet’s web app. Rivet’s team all works remotely, so I’ve been taking the opportunity to visit myContinue reading “a day in the life of my internship”

recently i’ve been learning how to use löve, a 2d game framework, to make a rhythm game that i’m calling osu!vim. osu!vim is an idea i’ve had for a while now. as you might guess, it was inspired by two things: osu!, a rhythm game where you click circles to the beat of the music,Continue reading “making a rhythm game with löve”

one pastime i’ve been enjoying a lot recently is finding quirky fashion brands online. like the dirty capitalist consumer i am (jk), i will now share some of the cool things i found this month (: 1. palladium boots i went through a phase where i was obsessed with platform doc martens. sadly the highContinue reading “july style roundup”

i just got back home (iowa) this friday from the formula sun grand prix (fsgp) in topeka, kansas. i was with the mit solar electric vehicle team; we were racing nimbus, our solar car, against other universities across north america. it was one of those experiences that you have no way of preparing for, andContinue reading “my solar car kansas adventure”

last weekend i went to amherst to visit a high school friend who is doing summer research at umass! my partner and i took a 3-hour long bus ride from south station to amherst—it was my first time traveling out of boston on a bus, and there was as lot of pretty scenery on ourContinue reading “luckily, i survived amherst”

i went camping at acadia national park over the weekend! it was a mit outing club trip with 80 other people. my group drove up to maine friday afternoon (it was my first time visiting the state!), set up our tent, and went to bed to get ready for outdoorsy activities throughout the weekend. hereContinue reading “acadia trip”

i went hiking! i went on a mitoc trip to the white mountains. we climbed mt. eisenhower and then went down to mt. pierce: i haven’t been doing too many other notable things otherwise. a youtuber that i follow is doing a series this month with daily videos, so watching the newest installment each morningContinue reading “on reading and writing”