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“You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...
That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... around like basketballs of our more athletically inclined friends. We ... between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of -
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Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.
software Picasa, unsurprisingly affiliated with Google? At the request of ... Mitra would secretly like to erase all evidence of her existence from the ... one about people and expect nobody to ever post videos of you. Once -
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Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)
Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food ... some form of activism around food justice, but writing a blog post seemed -
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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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This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.
second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a ... stations, two moons, one galaxy, one bowl of petunias, and one existential -
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Yoga The joys of physical education
successful completion of the swim test (or beginning swimming class) and a total of 8 Physical Education points. It was your responsibility to fulfill this requirement by the end of your sophomore year. (Mitra note -
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Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!
In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design: designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling. Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best -
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Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success
point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands of dollars each year. I mean, never mind the fact that the set of -
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There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.
This blog post was written by Mitra, Sam, and Bryan. In 1994, one of the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now -
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Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down
looming sense of vertigo—like something inside me was always cycling, pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This ... love of books translates into an extensive collection of them that I grew -
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Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.
't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I ... , terminating both his life and my dreams of graduating (as well as my reputation ... minutes into his lecturing, so everyone in my recitation was well aware of -
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50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.
Dear Class of 2010, This will be my last entry written specifically for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be -
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Pixar Pi
Waiting for decisions sometimes made us feel like kids, scared of the ... that kid right now, afraid of the unknown, know that there are a lot of ... way you want them to, it's easy to feel down. Look at all of the good -
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Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!
Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled -
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I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"
delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of lots of other people! For me, this sounds like: My Worst Nightmare! A chance to freak out and embarrass myself in front of lots of other people -
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How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.
As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a) spending three hours with a bunch of other nerds and a stack of pizza boxes ... elbow grease, carcinogenic automotive lubricant, and a home-brewed mesh of -
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This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.
I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two ... Talbot, the large common room of East Campus, the only two females ... for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the -
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17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown
plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of ... been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself. Incidentally, there are a lot of great concerts happening in Boston this week, so -
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I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D
Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly-built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it ... , setting the flat panel of the track, and a fifth, with dyed red hair