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The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…
. (Well, not really - we all just convened to complain about how we could no ... , there's no points or whatever people have left over at the semester (it ... -semester freshmen have the advantage of Pass/No-Record - which basically means that -
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Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!
the chaos of MIT to do no work and hang out with believers and friends ... past, where people of any or no faith can gather to talk about the big -
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Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT
, students were being asked to leave campus. No one had expected that. No one -
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Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times
“The winter has come. The days are dark, cold, and dreary. There is little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this ... is pretty normal – no darker, colder, or drearier than it has been -
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I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese
, but we grew up in Denver, where there was no one like us. This wasn ... subway. No matter where in the world we went, on the subway, people would -
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Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…
wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter ... relaxed, but don't forget to propel yourself along. Third, there's no need -
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The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!
or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... amputated penis has been partially eaten by a duck" In no particular order -
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Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.
administered in English. There are no minimums, because, ironically, the ... story. I said, in effect, there there's no such thing as being "qualified -
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Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable
example, this bears no resemblance to snow: Gratuitous picture. Yes, this ... minds: OH MY GOD AHHHH ADMISSIONS DECISIONS?! Well, no, not yet -
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Your last first day and your final final exam
taken from Your Last First Day in There Is No Antimemetics Division. There ... hundred metres underground, cared for by no one, known to exist to no one ... it. Would I regret not making amends with my family? No. Would I regret -
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REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…
with us! No artistic skill needed! 20:17 - 21:17 Billiards Pool is ... you attend this event? Come find out! No time travel experience ... the process. No experience necessary, everyone is welcome—just BYO -
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My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.
’m lucky."] murdered.[/annotation] I’m no expert, but maybe you’ll learn from ... sure no headlights were following me. Nowhere seemed “good,” but finally I decided that one cul-de-sac was no riskier than the others, so I -
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EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?
. You scramble to find a pencil. You can no longer remember the answer ... knob and your body is pressed against yet another door. There is no knob ... have no mouth but you must scream for ice cream Jake I. ‘16 It is the -
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anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body
bones there would be no body without the bones. just how there would be no “college” without the hallmarks typically associated with the ... our classes are on pass/no record (pnr) freshman fall -
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Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus
nothing ever feels too burdensome, but people [annotation note="no one ... of the year. No one can force me to get a dining plan. I don't have to ... , from [annotation note="reasonable"]"no smoking in the house -
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everything i made this year (mostly)
no electronics experience going in (which you can probably tell from ... , since I’m no longer consistently making posters for LSC. Instead, when ... in the photobooth, where we were recording. i have no idea why the -
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The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project
skip 13, 19, and 23. The registrar lists CMS as XXI-CMS, and STS has no ... undergrad begins with no major, being Undeclared. This is not a coincidence ... principles: I wanted to compensate artists for their time. I had no idea -
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context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?
careless stunt with no expectation of admittance as he didn’t want his parent ... doing. I will never catch up to talent that works hard no matter how much ... selective college. I have no recollection thinking about college before moving -
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25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums
the heck of it. We had no experience and no clue what we were doing, but ... as not to alert my parents who were home at that time “for no reason ... having no cross-streets or turnaround areas, which took me halfway to the