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MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?
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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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Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food
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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 -
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Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity
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An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…
'm now a second-year PhD student in developmental neurobiology at Harvard. When I was an undergrad, I UROPed til I dropped, participated in my dorm ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In -
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6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit
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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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Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.
’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... discussing it. Some people are better at being louder in meetings, at ... ’s the right way to teach the product design process. At the beginning of -
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[Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them
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 ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international