happy new year!

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: college anxieties, but also acceptances
October 2019: same as September 2019
November 2019: same as September 2019

C
September 2020: getting back to campus, back to work
May 2020: getting tired of being quarantined at home
February 2019: seasonal depression + college anxiety
October 2020: same as September 2020 

D
August 2020: tired of being quarantined at home, doing UROP and nREXt
January 2019: seasonal depression + college anxiety
July 2020: tired of being quarantined at home, doing UROP and RSI

F
March 2020: getting kicked out of campus
June 2020: tired of being quarantined at home, doing nothing

F-
November 2020: an insane amount of work while being isolated by the cold on campus

I haven't been writing on this blog much recently, partially because my life hasn't been too interesting, partially because I've been extremely busy, and partially because I've been producing content for MIT Admissions. If you'd like to read some of those posts:

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