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The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...
the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... (also not true) and I just can’t even think back to the feeling of ... saw regularly for the rest of the semester, and into IAP. Externally -
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HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help
live in deep suburbia, the sort of place whose main assets are relative ... sometimes like i am made of you guys” 2014 “My first semester ended two weeks ... Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the -
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It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you
rejection by heading the Continental Army, driving the British out of their own colonies, and becoming the iconic first president and, in many ways, the linchpin in the formation of the United States of America. Worked -
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“I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…
building the first rocket to take astronauts to Mars. Some of my classmates ... protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics ... first day of class. Sixty-odd students fidget nervous-excitedly in a -
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My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo
will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew with together (bet you guessed that). One of the primary reasons I chose -
Blog / About Decisions
I Challenge You Pi day approaches.
reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... hearing that MIT is what it is because of the people who go here, but it -
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Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching
listening to books. People seem to enjoy what I make and the joy of others ... ; I usually worked on the big mural in my apartment just because of the ... Reddit. Here are two of my favorite. The more and more I designed and -
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Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.
right wall of the kitchen, is our fuse box: Do you know about fuses? I ... you cook oatmeal on the stove. You boil a cup of milk. You can hear it ... the heat down and add half a cup of one-minute oats and you stir -
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Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).
step and dramatically improve the lives of all the people you encounter ... most of you are facing right now, the dragon that felt like the final ... didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of -
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Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers
2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to -
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In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...
of people who make up the admission staff. It is the collective wisdom of the admissions staff that can be credited with the successful ... contributions or the work of other admissions officers, our roles in the -
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An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)
highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to ... . I just want to reach out to the applicants who read descriptions of -
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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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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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In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine
following quote: One of the most important things about college is its ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... the importance of the idea of "holistic admissions." We have a holistic -
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Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.
Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of
