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A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next
Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I wrote A Major Crisis, a blogpost in which I discussed my major prospects ... months later, I am now officially declared as 6-3, a computer science major -
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A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.
morning, I felt a faint red soreness on my uvula, which can only mean that I ... pipe flow. This is what writing a 21-page proposal on drag reduction in ... thing I said to the lab assistant was, "Can you give me a hand? I have no -
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How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.
call the "Nance Effect" a home of sorts, thank you for your continued ... The Nance Effect has become a true on-line community. What does that ... had a mean or negative tone. Even when baited by comments that were -
Blog / About Decisions
here comes a thought on decisions
[annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... most people."]'here comes a thought' from steven universe ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics -
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A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!
'd take a moment to tell you guys what I'm up to for the semester. This ... to make up for a humanities free freshman spring semester. Finishing 6 ... ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes -
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i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*
creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a ... other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach ... . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become -
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A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6
page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... 6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the -
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Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable
talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... 's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and -
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A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.
Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera-wielding tourists. You bump into one of their shoulders; they regard you for a moment, then return to their conspiratorial whispering. Before you think up a -
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A Few Words
action decisions came out last year, I was at a debate tournament, with no access to a computer. A friend of mine had promised to let me use her ... couldn't find her; she'd disappeared to go eat lunch at a nearby Mc -
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Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.
Campus preview weekend (CPW) at MIT is just what it sounds like—a ... on a Thursday, already an indication that it wildly exaggerates all that is good about life as a student. For the visiting senior, there is -
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A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.
teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... , so I missed a good deal before and after winter break. I wrote and ... write a book, dash out ten pages of nonsense fantasy fiction, and promptly -
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A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...
the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with two ... about half a decade more, in which time two identical extensions would be built onto its north and south walls, and a matching parallel would be -
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A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me
we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost ... ’re just kids. our jokes are a mix of violence and bathroom humor and we ... . whenever i hear variations on the theme of “i was torn into a million pieces -
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East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*
two layers: a t-shirt and my winter coat. True to form, I had to shed ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... -turning Rush shirts for a while. I don't want to make the Admissions Blogs all -
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A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle
, I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a ... Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... professional movers got to work. Prohibition style, I met a colleague with -
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Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.
Yesterday's Boston Herald had a story about the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT) getting into a little trouble: A group of MIT students were taking out the Tesseract - a solar powered car that took third -
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Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist
It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT -
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How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.
far as I can tell, UROPing follows a basic rule of thumb: if you want ... hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize ... . Before you embark upon your quest: Make a resume. You're definitely going