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Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.
'10 and Rich '10 Dima and Rich's room is located in the opening of the ... proportion of them." "So with these goals in mind, we set out for the local ... ." Rich's side of the room, opposite the feng shui tea shelf, contains his -
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The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V
with the college essay. Ever walk into a shop with one of those glass cases with all the toppings laid out in a symphony of delicious colors ... always get the same? College admission officers read upwards of tens of -
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What’s the big deal about 40^2?
Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who -
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Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…
equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic ... thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression ... to the pool's edge, but the inviting depth of the water - the -
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Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity
the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... complete the race and ethnicity section of the MIT admission application -
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MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... severalfold -- 1. The School of Science report. Several years ago, female faculty in the School of Science reported that they were discriminated -
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Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food
both symbolize the end of things, but autumn has always been my favorite ... change of seasons you hole up indoors, let the rain fall, and get cozy. Most of the rest of this blog post is by Cory R. ‘14, the source and home -
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Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks
spirit of hacking, the office is bedecked with a variety of posters ... from the University of Waterloo, whose academic program alternates four ... hackathons -- video wall posts, and the 'like' button, to name a couple of -
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The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.
interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... each of you is looking to find colleges where you feel you can spend the next four years. Your EC will be able to help you with lots of the -
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Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable
suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting ... taken earlier. So I'll try two approaches to make the point: one of them -
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how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum
-opposite-gender thing, because, again: deeply unpopular. The effort was a lot of fun, but ... that I didn't think of the pun myself. Anyways, so a week ago, we went ... be buttoned to the buttons on their own side of the coat (folding the -
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(Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time
walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the ... has a giant banner in the lobby with a collection of trophies on a table ... subset of those were a miscellaneous mix of talking about the sanctity of -
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tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years
years. Many of them are also filled to the brim with anxieties about ... the end of the day, the choices you make in college are yours. The ... plenty of agency in this realm, both in the timing of when you take each -
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Colors In every sense of the word
redness of the apple unnoticed. Ok, this is not an original intro. It was ... connotations of skin tones and cultures rather than the spectrum of visible light ... would be too spicy for the “guest”, me, of my own father or mother -
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Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?
DID YOU KNOW? Amazon.com sold out of their entire stock of the Wii on the morning of November 19, 2006, in less than one minute. So Mitra ... Garten, the incomparable host of TV's Barefoot Contessa, was coming to the -
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tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!
kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe ... on by the administration, the Department of Student Life, and the Office of the First Year, where you can learn (among other things) about -
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Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.
To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... food that has fallen on the floor. I am probably the age of some of your ... undergrad [Janet] if she had seen Silence of the Lambs, which came out in 1991 -
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Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.
ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on ... copy of the international edition of Newsweek, which had a headline ... of pictures of the Stata Center to show how innovative we are. Now, as -
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Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.
the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were ... something else. It is the most formidable piece of literature I have ever