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MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?
; In law school Technical staff at Los Alamos (MIT PhD) Technical staff at Los Alamos (MIT PhD) Management consultant at McKinsey (MIT MEng) Cognitive Science Professor at UCSD (University College London Ph -
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Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!
back to this, I promise. To give us a running start, let's look back at ... intimidating. Like they're all just plain better at math than me. I kind of feel ... downs, but by my last semester, I felt comfortable at MIT. This did not -
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[Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them
culinary delight. Here at MIT we are makers. Mens et manus they say, mind and ... good at cooking. consider this an a d v a n c e d cooking post. (because ... bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur,” good food is the -
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Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?
anything, do anything!” And the first time I looked at the class catalog, I ... whatever I wanted, I could at least go to Splash and teach about whatever I ... Andrew L. ’22, a freshman at the time, was gushing to me about how -
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Speaking in MITese A language all our own.
and a prized skill. (2) Term for alumni who remain socially active at ... of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP ... normal class is worth 12 units at MIT, which indicates that the class -
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Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food
hulled version, 5.5 cups water to one cup for the other, cooking til water ... til browned. Note: I'd imagine they'd work deep-fried (possibly better ... adding a dry seasoning mix at this stage to make up for the missing flavor -
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An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.
A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of ... , the kinds of emails sent within a dorm mailing list include, at the top ... connectors, funnels, and hairdryers. At the end of one IAP, from BMF and -
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Painting by number The anti-formula
” applications that could often be appealing at first glance, but ultimately turn ... is numbers, or at least that is what people think. There are actually -
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In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...
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It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.
achieve those priorities vary just as much. At one institution, the sole ... than the application pool provides. At another institution the priority ... similarly qualified students. At yet another institution, the priority is -
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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