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what am i doing great question.
’t all bad, I suppose) today I could actually tell you what I’m doing this ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later -
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101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.
Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list happened :) Some commentary - THINGS I DID DO (yellow) 1. Pull an all -
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Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do
between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of stuff your brain *thinks* you can do. When you cram those years with stuff ... pains you've ached. The hard things you can do that you didn't even know -
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how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum
get ready before class so I went without doing my hair or makeup ... say: do you see any children rocking this Crazy Rich Bayesian shirt from -
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This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.
meeting ended something like this: Me: Do you have any suggestions for things I could do to find out what it's like to be an astronomer ... Dumbledore. WHAT?! I was stunned. What. A. Ridiculously. Nice. Thing. To. Do -
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Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)
college, I had no idea what I wanted to do after graduation, but I wasn ... I want to do after grad school. I was a bit taken aback, because ... research sooner? Why do I love research so much, enough that I want to do it -
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How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in
According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry on how I got here is the most popular thing I’ve ever written. Therefore, even though… -
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Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.
, which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... school. Just tell me what I need to do, their eyes implore, and I will -
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Train Coming on navigating
helping him. His dad says: Watch what the people do. Watch how they get on ... flow". But following a sequence of steps? That-- that I can do. And these ... not, you can observe and extrapolate. Watch what people do, and take -
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actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation
FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually ... ME: no it's fred FROSH: but ME: fred * * * FROSH: so where do you ... right?? FROSH: what hall do you live on? ME: 5th west FROSH: oh i don -
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tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years
have agency: own your decisions. What do I mean by that? I mean that at ... activities you choose to do, the major you choose to pursue, the classes you ... the first place."]in your hands.[/annotation] You should do your best to