Ida Beckett

grad student @ harvard cmes interested in history, film, art & music.
fan of coffee and coffeehouses.

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"why do I do this to myself," i ask while gleefully continuing to do this to myself

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learned today through mere observation that the winklevoss twins are both major contributors to film forum

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on first, second and indeed third glance it appears the refs are wearing the uniform of the spurs

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#abolishairportpianos

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there’s a woman in my favorite annoying cafe w a magda szabó cap… beauty surrounds us

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red line going express to Harvard perhaps the only W I’ve had this year

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was talking to a friend who believes me to be extremely unfit about lifting and he went “mental weight?? the weight of your existence??”

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harvard isn’t gonna produce much veritas if it keeps making me leave widener library at 5 pm on saturdays

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told someone at a dinner party about some mistakes i made as a kid (thought the company Hanna-Barbera & the composer béla bártok were women & that Chopin was gay bc of george sand) & she looked at me and went “… what sort of child were you”

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the closest i've ever come to cyberbullying is when i mistakenly read bad/stupid/vapid letterboxd reviews of films i like and have the incredibly strong urge to respond "you are dumb as rocks"

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went to a play and turns out my greatest fear isn’t failure it’s being involved in crowd work

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people rolling up to the Boston International Antiquarian BOOK FAIR looking and dressed exActly like how you’d expect people rolling up to the Boston International Antiquarian BOOK FAIR to look and dress

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this Halloween i am dressing up as the scariest thing imaginable: a grad student applying to yet more graduate school in the fall of 2025

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@jessejrobertson @erikmbaker journeying to maralogo golf course by golf course

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@bora_gobekli whenever the music looks good i am extremely down

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today a man turned around multiple times to stare & look me up and down as he walked hand in hand between his wife and daughter… this happened maybe an hour after I finished a ferrante novel, the female experience is alive and unwell

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@dchiasso Incredibly excited !!

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ah well the bus driver just rear ended someone this has been a Very turkish story

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the best kind of chivalry I’ve ever received was just now when a guy on a motorcycle saw me running to catch a (relatively far away) bus, asked if i needed it, and then pulled up in front of it until i got on.

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@bora_gobekli dolmuştan düştüm ✌️🤕😚

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it’s official, the streets of Ankara have been baptized with my blood