Oh how spooky and strange to do this on Substack instead of MITAdmissions WordPress.
Life updates, let’s speedrun them:
I graduated! Hooray!
I moved to Brooklyn! Huzzah!
I am…unemployed until August. Less of a huzzah.
I’m going to Tokyo?!?
I’m going to San Francisco?!?!
I have roommates for the fall potentially
I am now an adult, I guess?
This is mainly for documentation purposes, less for like communicative ones. So I’m just going to word vomit some things.
I moved to New York on June 4th with a big suitcase and a little suitcase in hand. I love taking the Amtrak, it makes me feel cool and mysterious and it fills me with joy to sit on a train. I surprisingly navigated my way easily from the station to my little apartment in Brooklyn where I’m living with two other people (two undergrads from UPenn).
One of my biggest fears when moving to New York was the fear that I would not have any friends and that I would not go outside. So in an effort to make sure those things didn’t happen, I relentlessly filled my schedule with a LOT.
On Monday, I saw Pierce the Veil live in concert on a rooftop concert venue in FiDi and I befriended three other ladies who have been extremely kind to me during my time in NYC.
On Tuesday, I messaged a women in tech group about having an extra ticket to see Across the Spiderverse and made a new friend and went to a fancy movie theatre called Alamo Drafthouse where they have reclining chairs and bring food right to your chair. The movie was also incredible.
From Friday through Sunday, I was in Vegas on a whim with my friend Emma and we had a really good time just…doing postgrad things. Messing about. Meeting up with MIT friends like the Skulls guys and going clubbing and drinking and all that. Wow, I can mention drugs and alcohol on here since I’m no longer a student blogger — this is kind of bizarre.
And now I return here, where the following Monday (last night) I took a salsa class and watched an early screening of Asteroid City with a LIVE INTRODUCTION done by Wes Anderson and cast. It was crazy. It was also one of those moments that reminded me of like ‘oh hey yeah i do live in new york’
I have a lot of plans for this week as well. Tomorrow, I’m hoping to snag some tickets to a Broadway show. Thursday I might go over to a friend’s place to watch the new season of Never Have I Ever. And then Friday there’s a concert in the park I want to go to! So lots of things. Oh and Saturday I might be doing a food crawl with friends.
In a more Cami-style of blogging, I’ve been doing a lot of self reflection as of late. I am really content with my spring semester, my final semester, at MIT. I feel like I really lived it to the fullest. I met so many people. I did the whole hook up culture thing. I got into this weird situationship thing. I drank a lot. I partied a whole lot. And now I feel like I’ve checked those boxes off my list and can enter an era of a good, clean summer. This especially hit me while I was in Vegas. Normally I would have been fiending to get absolutely wasted or maybe scouring the clubs for a hookup, but instead I just kind of felt tired. There’s some part of it, too, though that realizes I don’t like clubbing for the sake of clubbing — I like clubbing when it’s with my friends (as most people do, but I think that plays an especially LARGE part in my experience, moreso than the average person).
So in this new New York-era, I’ve been cooking a lot. And reading a lot. And watching a lot of movies. And playing a lot of games. It’s been really fun. I really feel like an adult of sorts and it feels nice to just have my own space and time to do whatever I want. I start work in August and I know that’s going to be an incredibly different kind of shift, but ultimately, I’m not as sad about graduating as I thought I was going to be.
I’m sure it’s going to hit me later, but for now, I’ve been trying to stay on top of communicating and talking with people and so far it’s been going well. I have this thing where I call my best friend from back home, Ethan, once a week while I go grocery shopping and we keep each other updated in our lives. I have this big group chat where I shoved all my New York friends into and I just message about things I’m doing and hope that one of them replies.
I’ve been trying to try new things and pick up new hobbies, continue old ones. I think I’ll stick with salsa, probably. It’s been really fun and I definitely need something to keep me in rhythm. I also hope to pick up yoga and krav maga. I definitely wanna continue cooking and crocheting, and I want to start doing art again. Just. a lot. There’s so much.
I’m really happy with where I am and I’m excited for this summer. :)