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things look a little different around here
This Thanksgiving marks four years since I started this blog— I remember working on my first couple of posts sitting at my cousin’s house during Thanksgiving break in 2018, just like I’m doing now! It’s crazy to think back and reflect on how much has changed since then… I’m no longer in high school, for starters, and I’m now going to college on the East Coast, which is pretty far away from where I had been living in California. (I’m actually pretty close to finishing off my bachelor’s degree, which is crazy to think about, assuming I can get through the last couple of classes, that is.) Even though there…
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Ten Books I Read This Month
Whenever I get asked the question “what do you like to do for fun?” reading is always one of the hobbies I list first— I think I actually wrote one of my MIT application essays on how much I liked books— but this past semester I spent the majority of my time reading textbooks and pset problems and articles on dummies.com and not much else. Tragically so, because reading was a huge part of my life back in high school, but since starting college and no longer having access to the neighbourhood library that I used to frequent I’ve been reading a lot less than I used to. So as…