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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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and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor
I've been watching a lot of chess. Watching, not playing. My eyes ... patterns. Pawn takes, knight takes back, bishop takes. It's a game of who gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening -
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9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.
Figure 1. Life outside of classes. A) Study break to make Matt ... 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 -
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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, as of 8:23am today. 560,719,327 a few minutes later, because a friend ... the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up -
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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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The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?
2.5 months of chewing, a faceless algorithm spits out a decision. Or ... of time reading alone. My amazing, very human, non-pizza colleagues and I read every single part of your application. We synthesize the -
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#Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni
Most of my entries center around things I've learned or ... 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 -
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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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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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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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Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek
buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus ... 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 -
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Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.
DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused ... middle of a field. "How interesting", observed the astronomer, "all -
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Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions
I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of ... I feel my blood run cold. Of the many memorable and inspirational -
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i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*
content warning: discussions of roach uwu Roaches are curious little ... a roach spawn point for about a week. Most of them however, were ... ’s got instincts akin to that of an experienced hunter. Harley is also the -
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Critter gaze upon my son
, a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten" which features [annotation note="Last week we heard from Skylar Tibbits of the Self-Assembly Lab; this week we heard from David Sun Kong of the -
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Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).
while I was here. 32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major ... was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you have plenty of hard drive space, so you have no excuse. 22. Take some