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Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates
Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their ... few weeks back. This got me thinking of MIT people who just kind of -
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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.
Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 bajillion: It's my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An -
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Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.
pretty much like the Chuck Norris of all floors. If we were on Heroes, we ... that I've established that, we can all go home. I say this lightly, of ... you. Different places suit different people (which is true not only of -
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An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside
mission, as it were, was to dig through this mystery box of old DVDs, CDs, and tapes of admissions movies and pictures and unearth anything funny ... /label/digitize everything but that’s less interesting). So, here are some of the coolest -
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Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT
experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... that got a lot of attention, and I thought it might be a good idea to go -
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On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave
I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I ... is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects ... to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about -
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Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times
climate of despair and misery, we finally go crazy. All rationality is lost. We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity.”[annotation note="The only true part of this quote is the first sentence. Winter here -
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Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python
many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over -
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trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry
've left my copy of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics [annotation note="this is particularly tragic because some of the quotes are from that text (quoted in ... account of something else"; i.e. that which is most complete and most -
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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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There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…
. Actually, I was never a huge fan of this band, but they produced some catchy tunes a couple years ago. (For fans of alt-rockers like Franz Ferdinand ... . This man taught the first ten lectures of 7.03 (Genetics) and is the head -
Blog / Admissions
There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks
The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... of you. Is that weird?" (No, it's not weird!) and virtual group hugs ... why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How -
Blog / About Decisions
To the Deferred I feel your pain.
plethora of emotions that come with it. Right now, some of you are nearly giddy with elation, having just learned of your acceptance. Some of you ... others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable -
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Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!
hundreds of wonderful and intelligent female students but also the best-tasting water on campus. Last Sunday, I filled up two entire bottles of sweet, filtered deliciousness from a burbling water fountain while the attentions of -
Blog / Admissions
Admissions advice from someone who’s been there
with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was -
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Save Point sleep wake hope
on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... whole lot of difference. Sometimes I know that they are worlds apart. I ... dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the -
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Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need
’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever ... . Some of you brilliant prospective MIT students know exactly what I mean -
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The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application
, one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... : MIT should release the full set of admissions data stripped of ... 'm a huge fan of statistics. I read 538 and Football Outsiders every day