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Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.
right wall of the kitchen, is our fuse box: Do you know about fuses? I ... you cook oatmeal on the stove. You boil a cup of milk. You can hear it ... the heat down and add half a cup of one-minute oats and you stir -
Blog / Academics & Research
Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT
signing in on OLPC's (somehow the admissions office got a hold of two of ... MIT student didn't die! 2:06 -- Most of the students here are seniors ... ." is the core mission of MIT. An example are the OLPCs people signed in -
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Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core
up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just ... strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major ... didn’t try to study 2 hours before the exam on 2 hours of sleep. I -
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0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete
Well, I'm 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and ... . I spent the first four days of break doing absolutely, very delicious -
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My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?
’s a sign of aging, I guess, but I now think that staying all day in the ... , because a lot of Filipinos have two first names. We could talk about the ... could go to the Museum of Fine Arts and talk about all the artwork. We -
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Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT
of my MacBook Pro scraping against a doorframe when I miscalculate the ... . “It’s a remember things thing.” It keeps track of recipes, finances, the ... . Luckily TextWrangler was able to resuscitate the text of the file sans -
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And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.
it around the house. Also, a lot of upperclassmen are interested in ... class into your already busy schedule. I have had the fortune of taking at ... her that I was a chemical engineer. She immediately gave me the names of -
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Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.
fourth floor of building 3 for really excellent Indian food. Crack open the ... 's parents walk into the room. 9:19 PM: The punchline of the movie, delivered ... 'd give me a day instead of the allotted hour. Even still, though I -
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HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help
live in deep suburbia, the sort of place whose main assets are relative ... Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the ... to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family -
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10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.
and you'll see home: Fun fact: all of the photos in ... we have wacky (modern? postmodern?) buildings, the best river views in ... home after class: (2) Because even the Infinite (Corridor) has an -
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Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!
to be a part of, and I have never regretted the decision. 2. Freshman ... softball team, or a sorority, find the group of people (or place or activity ... & Disney loving floor of a closeknit nerdy dorm may not be the place -
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College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!
Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you ... . I bought all of this ahead of time except for the pillows just because ... parents to bring the rest of their stuff. You can also order it online and -
Blog / About Decisions
Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.
officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... variants - and countless others - are all just versions of the same question -
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A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me
. whenever i hear variations on the theme of “i was torn into a million pieces ... takes the form of socializing, writing, and incessant online window ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost -
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Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself
Some Notes, because I’m myself: Title is loosely based off of the ... because that’s… that’s just kind of the feeling that goes along with this ... younger, which will be the goal of my blogs! Anyway, I’ll introduce myself -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation
: so where are you temped FROSH: one of the frats ME: oh cool FROSH ... , there's so many cool -- FROSH: isn't that the ...you know ... clothing ... mean the roller coaster's pretty cool FROSH: but i would never live -
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The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…
So philosophical entries with advice on the right strategies for conquering MIT are really great, but in my humble opinion, the most helpful ... live the next four years, what you want to do, whether you want to care -
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Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!
diploma with both areas of specialization written on it, and we don't do ... between 15 and 20 percent of MIT students graduate with bachelors degrees in ... the truly worthy will be able to dance at graduation with a diploma in -
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我没去过北京 在外国出生的孩子的故事
(Read the English version here!) 我没去过北京。我们回中国去的时候,总是去上海、南京、杭州,总是在江苏一带。我记得,我小的时候还能说上海话(我三、四岁的时候,外婆照顾我,我就学了上海话)。 我第一次去中国是四岁的时候。我们到了上海就去我亲戚的家了。我只有一个清楚的记忆:有一天,我阿姨要让我小睡一下。她告诉我,“如果你不睡觉,叔叔会切掉你的鼻子!”。 我还不知道这个记忆是真实的还是来自我的梦,可是我知道以前我就会说上海话,可是现在回想起这个记忆,是英文的。 我小的时候