Life in a small town in Rhode Island presents a strange dichotomy – on the one hand, I have been raised in a seemingly isolated place, while on the other, I claim one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world to be my home. By residing in such proximity to the mountainous wilderness of northern New England, the beautiful seaside towns of my own state, and the vibrant cities of Providence, Boston, and New York, I have acquired a...

This may seem random, but I when I first came to MIT I was taken by how many dance groups there were. I'd never danced before, and never really knew of dance tropes being a thing at all since they were...

Though I knew my first year at school would mostly consist of general requirements and the like, I never thought I'd come out saying my favorite classes were my two calculus classes. I was packed in with a (relatively) small group of other students who, like me, had taken single-variable calculus in high school but did not feel confident enough to skip the course altogether in college. Instead, we took an accelerated version of the Calculus I in the first half of the fall semester, and an only slightly accelerated Calc II over the rest of the semester and the...

The culture of trying to do everything possible. Sure, it's...