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Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!
Finalists from the LA region were interviewed in half-hour slots that we ... statement I’d made. Which leads us to… The Longest 4 hours of my life. The ... to chill for a few hours until the call-backs. To distract myself, I -
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tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!
– which is to say, crazy, fast-paced, unbelievable, terrifying, and -
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The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application
where and how fast it will drop. But even though we have reams and reams -
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Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.
to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to ... the tune of $9.25 per hour. I took notes for this guy who broke his arm ... getting paid $10 an hour to go to lecture. I taught SAT Prep for ESP, which -
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Axes of Confusion ????
in the library instead of office hours, we'll be reading alone instead ... the same way, by living in office hours and learning from TA's and LA ... .00, we spent 15-20 hours a week in office hours, and we thought that was a -
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“You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...
've spent hours at a time like this, discussing topics ranging from Computer ... hours without sleeping makes your thoughts indistinguishable from someone ... hours spent reading, tooling, and being awake well worth it. -
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Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python
. Figure 4: Hourly Activity How did I spend each day? I took a sum across days to find my total number of revisions by hour. I was surprised at how ... Levels by Class During school hours, my editing activity related to how I -
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SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger
half an hour," he said, "to write about being an MIT admissions blogger ... gajillion hours writing every post, paranoid that it would be "bad" or not ... , I post about once a week; each takes about an hour, and sometimes -
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Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).
I've been looking at Ben's "50 Things" post recently, since classes are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... hours away. I didn't do so well on the final, but I haven't thought about -
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My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?
could talk for hours about Homestuck and grilled tomatoes and calligraphy ... hours about Homestuck and grilled tomatoes and calligraphy. I’ll introduce ... that will help. We could talk for hours about typography and grilled -
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i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos
pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... ’ll be an hour late, we can finish what we have right now.” We went back to hall, but Winnie was right. It took an hour to get everyone packed -
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My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months
to do this. Unfortunately, I didn't finish this game fast enough for -
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Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS
challenge is basically a quiz on how fast you can come up with good solutions -
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The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!
in particular failed particularly fast, with spring 3 failing in only 3 -
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Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!
me since I left consulting and moved on to a fast-growing furniture -
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Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed
student center study sessions, a few office hours, and a lot of late ... exams, this professor drops these 4-hour-long review videos that after ... . 3 hours later. Noon. Test Complete. Boom. Knocked out. Beat that -
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Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes
culminated in an hour-long cry session after a benign meeting with my biology ... overwhelmed. We spent the half hour appointment talking about personal genomics ... ’ve had. It stretched to four hours and left me nonfunctional for the next -
Blog / About Decisions
some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…
the ground for an hour and then go home. At home, the first thing I did ... eight hours, and while that's not a great plan for every day, it can be ... -hour days? Cut yourself some slack and drop a class (three cheers for -
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Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.
group, we pulled week-long mixing sessions where I rotated on 4-5 hours of sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair ... side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend