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Something Vexing: On Change, Crossroads, and Growing Up

So, I'm going to college. And that is really exciting. I have been dreaming that I would reach this point in my life for about as long as I can remember. I'm excited to be on my own, to have autonomy and the ability to be the sole captain of my ship. I'm excited to make new friends, and learn new things about myself, and have new experiences. I'm excited to learn for no one and nothing but myself. I'm excited to hopefully finally start moving my life in the direction it is meant to go and to do something that actually makes a difference. I'm excited for everything that awaits me the next four years, but there is something else about this experience that it feels to me like no one talks about enough. I certainly hadn't considered it as seriously as I should have before reaching this point, and that is how to deal with the personal/emotional implications of entering this new chapter in our lives. When you talk to all of your friends and proud relatives abou...
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8 Extremely Cute Animals You Didn't Realize Existed but Some of Which Might not Exist Soon

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Alrighty then. This is something that I love to show people, but have never created any sort of formal list for. Probably my second favorite category of content on Instagram, preceded closely by makeup videos, is cute animals. And if you are one of the somewhat rare individuals who follows those obscure science meme pages, national park accounts, and environmental activism pages, then you are blessed to see cute animals that most people have never even heard of. I posted something about it on my Instagram, but I've never drafted anything seriously. What will follow is a numbered list (not in any particular order) of my favorite ones. But wait, there's more! See, you get to see how amazingly, adorable some of these animals are, but this isn't just about that. Many of these animals are endangered, so you will also be reminded of the choking influence the human race continues to have on the Earth, in an effort to play my part in raising awareness ...
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Vestigial Structures: An Unfortunate and Complicated Side-Effect of Evolution

Hello. If you are reading this, you are likely some unfortunate soul who wandered a bit too far off of the carefully designated path created by Google's search engine display algorithm, or you are one of the wonderful individuals who is reading the applications to be a blogger for the MIT Admissions website, either of which is excellent and welcome here. If you do not belong to those two categories, you are my best friend, Emma, who is the only other person I told about this, and you are certainly NOT welcome, so leave. But because you're my best friend, I know you laughed and kept reading, so I guess I'll just go on anyway. So, the purpose of shelling out $12 to buy a domain for the next year for this blog (aside from finding a positive and cathartic outlet for my feelings and thoughts, which is something me and Emma also discussed in the aforementioned conversation 🙃) was to create a space for my blogs for the blogger application to live. That is the purpose of this ve...
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