actions, not words.

It's been a while, but here's a blog from the daily series on the private blog (email me at az23@mit.edu for access). The Year in Review is coming soon, hopefully by January 31st (but we'll have to see). Also, this title is from a meme song and is absolutely not a reference to my work this IAP, which I love very much. Today was an okay day. As the normal tradeoff goes, I got more work-related stuff done today, but got very little blog writing done, which is problematic because there are multiple blogs I want to produce this week. This is a good reason to try and start recovering my sleep schedule, so, in fact, that is exactly what I will try and do by keeping this blog entry, in general, short. I reserve the right to ramble—but anyways. I got up today just before noon after struggling immensely. I spent today editing an interview that was…extremely difficult to cut down. Last interview was hard enough, but this one includes a lot of sentence fragments and branching tangen...

this post's soundtrack:  a very amusing rendition of Auld Lang Syne I am currently only 2600 words into my traditionally 10000+ word Year in Review, so that might take another few days, unfortunately, but it will be posted on this blog. In the meantime, however, I thought I would provide an extremely unscientific tier list of months from 2019 and 2020, based on data from my private, daily blog: S+ July 2019: RSI 2019 counseling! S August 2019: end of RSI 2019 counseling, start of freshman year of college April 2019: enjoying the end of senior year of high school May 2019: same as April 2019 A January 2020: an IAP of externing and hanging out February 2020: finally being in the swing of college April 2020: successfully drowning out boredom with schoolwork December 2019: holidays + feeling good about college June 2019: visiting China, starting RSI 2019 counseling B September 2019: first semester of college December 2020: holidays, but mostly recovering from the semester March 2019: c...