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Blog / About Decisions
In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...
When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate ... point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group of people who make up the admission staff. It is the collective wisdom -
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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
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 -
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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Blog / Best of the Blogs
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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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 -
Blog / Academics & Research
anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body
classic american college experience: classes, clubs, a diverse group of ... am referring to the 6 stem classes that must be taken (or tested out of) by all undergraduates"]girs [/annotation]done following the advice of -
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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 -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
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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Blog / Admissions
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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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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An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside
mission, as it were, was to dig through this mystery box of old DVDs, CDs, and tapes of admissions movies and pictures and unearth anything funny ... /label/digitize everything but that’s less interesting). So, here are some of the coolest
