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Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud
supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night ... back to that night, which began on the fourth floor Haus balcony where I ... . Afterwards, a group of us went down to embark on a long and cold journey to the -
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Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"
="NASA pls hire me to do experiments on your astronauts"]16.423/HST.515/IDS.337 ... ="aggghhhhh I want to take this so bad I've been working on DNA damage research ... .001: Introduction to Geology 12.007: Geobiology: History of Life on Earth -
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All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)
orientation and had to go through storing everything on my own every summer. You know what builds character? Having to pack up all your crap on your own ... stayed awake during naptime, sitting on my cot waiting for the others to -
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My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo
learning what that means to me, but I never forgot this passage that on ... Friends that sang "If you're voting and you know it, clap your hands" to the tune of "If you're happy and you know it" after a full day of talking to -
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Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day
song on my kindle to wake me up (This morning was Rodrigo y Gabriela ... unlawful amount of fun playing on the beach, going to an Israeli concert, and ... University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in -
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actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation
ME: open 24/7 ME: for all your dyeing needs ME: find us on yelp ME ... to feed on our youthful energy ME: FROSH: before you crawl back into your den FROSH: to cry about your future ME: ME: ME: ME: so hey do -
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“You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...
universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches ... tactical vest and be very nice to everyone on campus). But what really sets ... 's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever -
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This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.
Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seak out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone ... William Anders on the Apollo 8 mission to the moon with Frank Borman and -
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Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem
match. Trying to get admitted, on the other hand, is essentially the exact ... 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 future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety
rolling waves of panic I had on the flight back to Boston). Thinking about ... . Perfectionism + the urge to get everything done right on the first try. I first ... is going on with me, but I've very recently started to implement forgiveness -
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Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers
negative tact. A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends ... desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin -
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Thoughts. Future. Kindness
Officer Sean, wrote a note yesterday on Facebook that moved me to tears. It ... own, kindness is the first thing I will try to teach them. Passing on ... was lit in tribute to MIT police officer Sean A. Collier on the night of -
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Mind and hand
. It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT culture. At some point in the past, someone on this blog asked me whether ... theoretical worlds in their heads, and love to know why things work the way they -
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The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application
captured. And then, if you try to build a model based on these incomplete ... being in the 750-800 range doesn't have much impact on your chance of ... likely to score an 800 on the math SAT than a 740. But if we take an IMO -
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I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.
on our first Valentine's Day together. I attached him to my mortarboard ... Photo Credit: Eric Schmiedl My family came into town on Wednesday for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to -
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There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…
trying to pin it on anything else – race, gender, whatever – is just deluding yourself. So please stop harassing Matt; you’re not going to get the ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been -
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Race Against Myself Learning how to walk
. It means that if I need four hours to read this lecture slowly on my ... focus on myself. When I look the next word I need to type. When I care ... nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if -
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The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project
. Finally, I'd like to credit my friend Lucas Ospina '26 on the card as he ... class and present your work to thousands of people. Artist: Anika H. '26 ... game theory class I took on listener. I especially made sure to add a -
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10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.
is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring electronics on board. So here's the boathouse from another angle: (6
