flâneur

two years after my book auction | MIT Admissions

mitadmissions.org · 944 words · saved by 1 readers

in retrospect

two years after my book auction by Rona W. '23 in retrospect April 17, 2022 in Art, Literature, Music On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it, because our lives are always changing at every moment, every breath being a cobblestone placed on this path that we follow—but I suppose this day was more memorable than usual, because it’s the day my first novel went to auction. It was a gray day. Most days were gray that month. The pandemic had just begun to claw its way through the United States, and a month earlier, MIT had asked everybody to leave campus, so I was at my

related reading