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dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters
charming, despite his obsession with the color [annotation note="whitney is ... people but i do not remember this meeting at all. cpw is such a blur -p ... this is all (mostly) relevant. PA: Outside of my room in Next House, I -
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Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.
Campus preview weekend (CPW) at MIT is just what it sounds like—a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... that is good about life as a student. For the visiting senior, there is -
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You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things
to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT ... tend to stick around longer than anyone expects. Consider the ESP website ... whether to create the website in Perl or Python. There's a bit of discussion -
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Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem
New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me ... that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to -
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EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?
your man, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me. Leo de C. ‘18 It is hot ... cathartic on Friday, November 6, 2015. Today is Sunday, November 6. This is ... , not all of which is residents, from 7:07pm Sunday, May 3, through 1:47am -
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The end of a chapter
was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... abroad. I feel that this is also something freshmen should know about, surprisingly enough. One regret I have is not planning my classes properly before -
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SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism
and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... research, knowledge, and exploration is linked to its "technical rigor." SHASS is composed of humanists, artists, and social scientists, but this -
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Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)
, which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge ... 't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I ... -jokes. One thing I love about the past two Hunts were the registration websites -
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As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in
then I did. MIT is wonderful, but as Folkers Rojas, former MIT ... magic didn’t happen. MIT is not a magic wonderland. There are grades ... . Failure is inherent in risk, and risk is necessary for success. Applying to -
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Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students
website is an amazing way to get free, on-demand tutoring services from like ... Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of ... the best course of action, especially if your goal in doing so is to -
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How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.
. Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP ... comes. The MIT career office is a great, under-used (from what I hear ... 're definitely going to be asked to describe them. Think about why it is you -
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The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.
. --------------------------------------------------------------- wow, looks like we killed the MIT node...akamai is shuffling the ... ,155 votes per minute. Drexler is currently averaging only 400.8 votes per ... ) --------------------------------------------------------------- For a short amount of time the website was back up with a "fix -
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An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!
'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce ... best part of waking up is 92 mg. of caffeine in your bloodstream! (I ... /pharmacology of synaptic transmission) lecture. Professor Wurtman is happy with the -
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A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures
I'm probably running late (this is not an uncommon thing) 9:30am out ... mixed-race. This is one of the first times I've really felt like someone I ... how lovely she is then! 12:30pm leave Burdick's and decide to walk to -
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Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.
: that the only official qualification for coming here is a certain level ... company for de-stressing purposes. I turned the corner towards the ... this is why friends are wonderful. He could tell I was upset about -
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Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates
there is someone at MIT who falls into that mold, it's probably Charles ... , like a Segway, is a self-balancing scooter, but, unlike the Segway ... more of everything Charles has made at his website, http -
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How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them
. This is mostly aimed towards first-years choosing classes for their first ... : [caption id="attachment_63745" align="aligncenter" width="300"] this is still ... in the first semester is good. First, you're in P/NR; second, you get a -
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Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend
out that science writing is an actual profession, it has secretly been ... research and outreach at a planetarium, like Neil deGrasse Tyson. I could be a scientist who changes the way science is taught... Something that -
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An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside
that this is, indeed, the 2011 EA poster!) There were extensive Power ... old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000