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Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.
At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... acrylic paint and the bottom half is melted crayons. Grant F. ‘16 One of -
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Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek
architectural styles, the atmosphere of cumulative, continuing history it creates, and the view of the river. There’s romance in losing sleep and body heat ... photographing campus and the Charles River to show you what I see. All of these -
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Adulthood Boom!
Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging. -
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A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.
summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... say that this note and the feelings behind it was one of my favorite -
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9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.
something to my cello case while I was out of the room. G) My hallmates and I have taken to sitting out in the hall. This is one of our handful of ... the 3AB goobers, had his first fencing tournament of the year the day -
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MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.
, and now has the third most views on all of Youtube. 560,719,326 views ... the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up ... an MIT Gangnam Style. At the beginning of October, I started seeing -
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From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor
“He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... that sounded like the first syllable or two of “congratulations,” so he ... that the road ended so abruptly -- a two-hour Zoom call at the end of a -
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The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?
I read every single part of your application. We synthesize the ... world. Many of us read at home 5-6 days of the week throughout November ... . Actual footage of the inside of my brain during reading season Then, we -
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International Men & Women of Mystery
socioeconomically diverse. 2. There is a quota on the number of international ... admitted each year. In each of the past few years, greater than 2000 international students have applied for freshman admission, making the rate of -
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A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?
If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people ... the side of Goodale (the northeast corner of East Campus): -
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#Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni
through the 4 years of masochistic glory that is MIT. This is not one of ... background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page ... they're whining about is that in 2006, the writer of Doonesbury put up a -
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An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.
DID YOU KNOW? The famous Pioneer Zephyr trains of the 1940's were ... professors. During the first week of my product design and development class ... 't. Granted, most of it probably has to do with the sweet beard that I've grown -
Blog / About Decisions
In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now
who knew exactly what they want to do with life. I was terrified of the ... will get to the place that is right for you, not just because of merit, but also because of fit. And the MIT decision does not reflect your -
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Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.
: Dozens of enormous, frozen pumpkins are dropped from the top of the Green ... my head (with more of a "swoosh" than a bang.) The hat looked like ... blowing out the candles. 2: I was mass 1 of a driven coupled harmonic -
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non-stop / walang hinto what a mess
spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during iap, or maybe near the beginning of spring. but even then, that feeling ... ’s working. i am one of the co-directors for hssp, which is an educational -
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Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.
Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of -
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Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.
-M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of ... -sets; sometimes there are not. At the end of the semester we write in-depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to -