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A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough
a new movie every two years at best. 18.02 psets come out every week -
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Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…
unglamorous reasons take trips, or learn to bake, or teach themselves new ... old advice to the new returning students. One of the panelists this ... here today and the rest of the panelists are new, so this time I say it -
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50 Reflections
the blogs program. MIT was the first, so this was all new territory with ... should build an entirely new admissions site that reflected those things ... importing and compiling all of the individual MT installs into the new backend -
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Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem
As I find myself again, railing against something published in the New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure -
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The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?
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neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?
hat on it. (EDIT: For real. I got him a Nintendo DS Lite, a new pocket -
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The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio
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An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…
), Chicago (Swapna '05), New York (Laura '06), and of course, lots of people in -
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Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.
tripping over a new on-campus job opportunity and falling on your face. And -
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Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.
: Equidecomposable The ability to chop up one figure and build a new one out of its ... was the dawning of a new century and a new era of mathematics. At the ... polyhedron is cut apart and reassembled into a new shape: if two polyhedra are -
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My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.
! Suffice to say it wasn’t glamorous. They scheduled new hires for 6am - 2pm ... songs off-key when my data cut out. When I came to somewhere new, I’d look ... and new to the world, and she would always nibble my [annotation note -
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Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...
though there is some overlap. Content: New Experience is the category I ... a new skill relevant to their intended career or major, was relevant ... : Fun (33) Content: New Experience (15) Content: Applicable (14 -
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[Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27
new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their ... brand new, though I tensioned it tightly as I put it up, after a hundred -
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smoke and spice my comfort meal
away, unwilling to try to understand a dish of something new. Eventually ... somewhere new and starting fresh that enables people to be more open-minded. I -
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How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge
."]Putzen,[/annotation]this is what you get. I carefully brought all the wood to our new apartment ... of the pandemic, Spark was in a new format this year: usually it -
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how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea
, including through UROPs, clubs, and just by being around new people. How can ... ']SCUFFY.[/annotation] DormCon elects new officers at the end of each semester, but any student -
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continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting
road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be ... figure out my next steps from there. Find new paths that I don't even know -
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We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie
first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically ... . When the final came along, I experienced what has been a relatively new -
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17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown
trying to make new friends. I don’t mean that I’ve shut myself off to new