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必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming
10:23pm.
Entering my room, I took a look at my planned schedule, the
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[Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26
team after 10 years of playing the sport because I could not keep up. But ... to office hours regularly, and I was doing well with handling 5 courses ... classes but one which I late dropped, so I could focus on a 5 week intensive -
Blog / Personal Projects
Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds
away for 3.5 days, in that time my parents managed to: Finally realize ... chicken lays about 5 eggs per week. Five dozen eggs per week is too many ... rough math: I lived with my parents for about 18.5 years before going to -
Blog / Blog Projects
A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video
and finished at around 5am, and by then, we needed to start rolling out ... aluminum sheets and riveting it together to make the pie tin (5:08). Here’s me laying in it because I’m 5’2” and the pie was 6.28 feet in diameter -
Blog / Academics & Research
In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!
accepting 30-60 students this year; France is accepting 5. Some (like Italy ... an interview, which consisted of giving a short (like really short—5 ... French ability. The French program is new, and it’s taking 5 students to -
Blog / Life after MIT
ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time
geographically close to each other) with my girlfriend Kathy '10 (link to an old ... for MDs, 4) work at an immigrant community clinic, and hopefully 5) all ... sometimes, but the smaller HASS departments really feel like home. Q5. What -
Blog / Academics & Research
Writing is useful for science. Surprise!
take a look a Terzan 5A, a binary eclipsing pulsar (it's in a binary ... bummed. At our next group meeting, the Terzan 5A question came up again ... -rank score" of 5.74, and an explanation that this is on a scale of 0 -
Blog / How to Food
The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.
well done). 5. When the steak's done to your liking (use the hand test to check doneness), take it out of the pan and let it rest for 5 ... with steak. Done. Shrimp Scampi (~10 min total) Fun fact: "scampi -
Blog / Academics & Research
Primer trimestre del primer año Una historia de terror, diría… pero con un final feliz.
faltaba porque Física comenzaba a las 10 de la mañana y me quedaba hasta las ... .01 (Cálculo simple-variable), una C en 5.111 (Introducción a la Química) y una C ... de 60; mi nota final fue 63,5. Y, sin embargo, en el expediente -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.
will be "Pulsars"...Please confirm acceptance of this offer by 5:00 PM ... for 10-12 weeks, hanging out with astronomers and scientists and ... (seagulls, geese, and swans) (4) Birds I eat (chickens, turkeys, ducks) (5 -
Blog / MIT Life
8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.
someone every month or so. Statistically, if you have 500 friends, and .5 ... 2.5.) 2. It is possible to succeed in life even despite enormous ... subtle consequence of human nature. [“Subtle” = “obvious.”] 5. Over IAP -
Blog / MIT Life
Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…
civilization, if by "civilization" you mean "12 or so people at pika". 5.I had ... were irresistible at 5 pm in the afternoon, though I've never been a ... you at least 5 extra minutes to sort through your purchases once you got -
Blog / Events
Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.
.An inflection point: Too hard. 4.The Mohs scale: Too hard. 5.My own ... life, the Infinite Corridor from 9 AM – 5 PM every weekday is 251 meters ... daily parade of Cambridge traffic to an early morning class (early = 10 AM -
Blog / Admissions
Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…
/BEN JONES/EVERYBODY I SAW TODAY: ... NO JOKE! Last night I changed into 5 ... 've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for ... drone on about his summer while playing Maroon 5 (which I did) than study -
Blog / Academics & Research
First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending
... I also skipped class because physics was at 10 AM, and I stayed up ... ), a C+ in 18.01 (single-variable calculus), a C in 5.111 (introductory ... average of 60; I had a final grade of 63.5. And yet, my official transcript -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic
, March 9: Just Another Day Tuesday, March 10: The Announcement ... 10 new cases a day. To me, COVID-19 still felt like a far-off threat. Tuesday, March 10 The Announcement New cases in MA: 51 On March 10, I had -
Blog / MIT Life
Life Tokens the currency of joy
cash out at the end of the game in exchange for money–$10,000, $20 ... [/annotation] using the life token argument. At first, we were going to pay him $5 to do -
Blog / Blog Projects
Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?
responses started rolling in. (I think I got like 50 responses in 10 minutes ... residents responded that they were athletes, followed by 37.5% of Maseeh and -
Blog / Blog Projects
what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)
not to be cliche, but there is truly no better time to have friends than in college. the experience of living [annotation note="10 if you ... more than a 5 minute walk away from friends [/annotation] makes every day -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition
="short king!!"]5'7'' Olly Smoot[/annotation]. Soon enough, the Harvard bridge ... . Um, duh. So at 10 pm, I scooter on over to the bridge. There