Saturday, August 27, 2022
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
double selection
dreadful quiz
Sunday, August 21, 2022
quick recap
Thursday, August 18, 2022
#15
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
dark love
Oh, and we finally did start that Spanish project today. It's a project on the summer reading book which was mandatory for Honors Spanish students. The book's name is Pasiones, and it's a compendium of roughly 20 "reportajes historicos" or historical reports on couples/lovers who had an effect on history. However, please don't read this book expecting love stories of rainbows and happiness because it was anything but that. It can better be described as tragedies rather than love stories. Pretty much every single one of these stories had somewhat of a dark ending to it. For this project, I'm partnering with Fox. Essentially, each group chooses two pairs of lovers from the book and has to answer a series of questions for each one. We got started in class but we're nowhere close to being finished yet.
Why study literature
Literature allows one to step into the shoes of someone else, whether it be from another country, another continent, or perhaps a whole other world. It changes the perspective of the reader by immersing them into this newly formed universe that exists within the paper and the words. If literature did not exist, and there were no written records of the past, then society would simply not advance. Even if, by some marvelous chance that it does, it would only crawl forward at a mere fraction of the speed it is going at today. Each person lives only once, so if literature were not recorded and passed down, mankind would not get very far in terms of technological, scientific, and societal advancement.
Through written works and literature, one is able to experience countless events and encounters, and learn invaluable lessons that they would have otherwise never come across. Reading makes one wiser and improves a person by having them broaden their horizons and open their eyes to various ways to view the world. Human life is ephemeral compared to the centuries and millennia of years that have come before it. Literature makes it possible for a person to live beyond their age, undergo a myriad of experiences that may trigger their own metamorphosis, improve their skills and, of course, obtain novel knowledge and vocabulary. Literature is an indispensable part of human progress, and to study it is to understand and familiarize oneself with the very force that pushes forward the human race.
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Cornell
Monday, August 15, 2022
First day back
Friday, January 7, 2022
delayed again
Thursday, January 6, 2022
a little info on muscle memory
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
research results
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
auto-pilot
Sunday, January 2, 2022
the trip that never happened
The following day would be Christmas Eve and labs don't open so there was no more chance. That's how we ended up canceling the trip we had planned so long for. A little background information is that at the time Puerto Rico was really being hit hard by the virus with the numbers of positive cases rising exponentially and people were in heaps to get tested if they had it too. Furthermore, the fact that it was the holiday season and a lot of people probably had to take the test to visit their families too most likely affected the result as well.
Saturday, January 1, 2022
traditions
step 1 As I have slowly settled into a somewhat steady rhythm here on MIT’s campus, I still often get asked by upperclassmen and family back...
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to be decided... I'm tired today and it's late so I'm just going to write some keywords here and I'll elaborate some other ...
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moi et seulement moi So, my AoPS class finished pretty late thanks to daylight savings and now I only have a measly 7 minutes to write my b...
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rhyme for no reason My my my. And yet another day has gone by. Oh, how time can fly. Wow, it's really dark now just look at the sky. OK...

