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The end of a chapter
was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want ... :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite -
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Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives
Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the actual event, the Ring Committee reveals the designs of our class year -
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In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist
plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act ... school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most likely have to submit some sort of documents trying to convince the people -
Blog / Academics & Research
The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web
is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing ... short answer is that I discovered the joys of web development. The long ... the past two years, in order of when they happened. Of course, these are -
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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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Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT
this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... began what is easily the most demanding of days I have lived through. What -
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International Men & Women of Mystery
*Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... definition. For purposes of MIT Admissions, an international student is a ... every student's full financial need. MIT is one of only a handful of -
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IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.
A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... piles of dirty laundry, p-sets, paper, scarves, and pencils. The drawers -
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From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor
“He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... a temple of science.” Ending of First Light by Richard Preston My thesis defense was at 9:30am over Zoom, with a committee of six professors -
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Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.
At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... panorama of my door, also attached. YQ L. ‘15 As you might know, I do a lot -
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Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…
One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a desert storm. And one of the Guild's oldest traditions is the ten-day game -
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Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?
MIT has a lot of resources that could have made my freshman year a ... the 2015 HASS requirements. So, uh, whoops. By way of apology, I'll do ... remainder of your prefroshly days, for once in my brief but glorious -
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150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know
, or the readings from this OCW course. These are all histories of MIT, yes, not the kind of history that I like reading for fun. What ... of the GIRs, or historical admissions videos. And it turns out there -
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The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake
I've been busy recently because of CPW. Like last year, CPW is being ... people sent lots of messages. Trinidad, one of the admissions directors ... not be tolerated[/caption] Unfortunately, I was weak of will. It -
Blog / About Decisions
To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit
admitted students weekend of another school in the Northeast, which we ... . Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of ... of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on -
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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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major takeaways: from every semester of mit
's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... hate most about this time of year. I've never had a good spring semester ... done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do