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Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning
I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks -
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Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed
Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So ... pictures). Part 7: The Battles Go On... So the whole Students and Sleep vs ... This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I -
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Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.
.60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On ... , less frustrating, and more fun. But I don't know that many people in the ... in the dorms. I think that's probably something that varies dorm -
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5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind
Over the last few weeks I have found five historical videos of MIT, ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the ... thoughts about them. I also pulled some pictures and gifs of the most -
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The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V
I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... unique essays to all the colleges I applied to (btw - applying to 15 ... so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the -
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Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…
One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I've roleplayed ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a -
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Axes of Confusion ????
a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major, and it achieves this by cutting requirements from both the Humanities field and the Engineering field you chose, making it really flexible. Our -
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Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends
't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative tale from last April. Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical -
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What’s the big deal about 40^2?
Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... the last application I read. People make a big deal about test scores ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before -
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The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.
Wait. . . what? Thongs? MIT? Together? Here's the story. Well, actually, here's the backstory, then the story. Back in July 2006 there was an issue with the Doonesbury comic strip. The main character's daughter -
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Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…
took the class twice and dropped it twice. It wasn't just because it had difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever -
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Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python
many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of ... failures are gifts that will lead to successes down the road. [caption id ... and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over -
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Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience
Now that it’s August, the fall semester is right around the corner ... a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the ... as someone who was at first hesitant to the idea. Despite the -
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ATHack A day well spent helping others
One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... work on developing a solution to the same challenge. This past weekend, I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies -
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Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.
Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for ... that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do ... sure how to represent the enormous beast that is MIT, I figured I'd start -
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Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down
The week after my semester at MIT ended, I was accompanied by this ... , pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This ... with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called -
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Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.
When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn't have ... my school librarian. She asked me what I would be doing the next year -
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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 ... , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... to “leave the room” so the committee members could deliberate. At 11 -
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Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times
“The winter has come. The days are dark, cold, and dreary. There is ... . We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity.”[annotation note="The only true part of this quote is the first sentence. Winter here
