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MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.
an MIT Gangnam Style. At the beginning of October, I started seeing
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Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!
jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually ... interviewees back at the site to wait. This was actually really cool because we ... . Nothing I’ve done at MIT has been done alone, and I’m unbelievably grateful -
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Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.
didn't go well at all. On Thursday night, after my last exam was over, I ... double back, at around 4pm on Friday, and make the trek to the third floor ... -by by bursting into song; Davie said that he used to do the same. At 4 -
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10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.
to be able to take pretty much any class, in any department, at any ... wine tasting class, worked out at the gym, and saw several movies. My ... about their graduate students than the undergrads. At MIT, I would -
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EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?
Stata Center has three towers. Some of the windows look out at other walls of the Stata Center. Others look out at a desert under unfamiliar stars ... , but you know they are your friends. You buy potato chips at Verde’s and -
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Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!
At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger ... , I like the name "Interstellar" a lot. So many of the things we use at ... ? Harvard and MIT students can cross-register for classes at the other school -
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The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!
Before I started working at MIT, I had never driven on the ... . ----- After 5+ years at MIT Admissions, I’ve accumulated quite a lot of mileage ... you are able to meet an MIT admissions officer at your high school, in -
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25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums
look of sadness when it came. I figured, MIT is for those other kids at ... convinced I wouldn't get in because I wasn't even in the top 10% at my school ... the couch at home and hoping I'd be able to load the website before -
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A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video
lurker at heart and have loved keeping up with the other bloggers' summers ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... conversations at all). Early adulthood feels like purgatory. It's so easy to hide -
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East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*
noticed three of my fellow passengers staring somewhat obviously at my shirt ... of the shirt looks something like this: Right. I'm not at MIT right ... 1916: at the time, MIT didn't even own the land west of Mass Ave, and -
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A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough
to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... a new movie every two years at best. 18.02 psets come out every week ... more net benefit in the long run. At least in this case, the adventure -
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Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem
admitted. In my mind, it makes perfect sense. It is, at least initially ... college? I imagine it went something like this. At the end of another very ... be appealing at first glance, but is woefully short on substance. End -
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I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.
hanging from a window and half a dozen people leaning out and waving at us ... at them. This is supposed to remind us that we'll get through MIT ... back on the good times we had at MIT. Photo Credit: Ricardo Ramirez -
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anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body
my advisor placement at first, since i had only applied for advising ... semester, we chatted about major plans, extracurriculars, life at mit and how ... stud that i could go to at any time, even odd hours of the night, and -
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An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?
seems unlikely, because why not shoot for the stars? However, at MIT, we ... they interact with are feeling, and are experts at adapting themselves to ... well-balanced sign of the zodiac. They're great at thinking through -
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My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo
MIT was to find Good People(TM). I didn't really know what that meant at ... at the top of this summit is breathtaking and I'm taking a moment to breathe, recover, and rest. As I catch up with friends and hang out at -
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3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy
fluffs up its breast with its paws, and at the same time a paler rat ... lapping the edge of the ice, and two of the nutria nibble at grass and one ... cigarette butts at my feet. One dog, little and orange, who chases the rats -
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Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself
wrong: you still can’t do minute math properly but you are good at math ... it’s true. I’m a bit amused at the prospect of you being angry at me ... , at 10 years old? it’s okay. sit down with them too… one day you will -
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Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go
. I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed ... only. We also didn’t serve ourselves. Instead, we pointed at what we ... was expecting to be able to stay in that room for at least the school -
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“Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores
feminist rant at you, I'll give you a “well, sort of,” because calling out ... single simple condition. In a now-famous study, psychologists at the ... participants arrived at the laboratory,” states the paper, “the experimenter (a