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Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions
I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that -
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Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers
I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin ... culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to -
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Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…
everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned ... had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean -
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What’s the big deal about 40^2?
right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about ... . No one seems to believe me when I tell them that when I'm reading an application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before -
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Thoughts. Future. Kindness
experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience ... went back to work. Half an hour later, I checked my Facebook and couldn ... needed to talk to somebody. After the initial shock reaction, the only -
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What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.
asked me what I wish I'd known before I came to MIT. I wish I'd known ... success to success to success from the day they were born (I'm pretty sure ... struggles, academically and professionally, and many know what it's like to -
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A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies
These past few weeks haven't been easy. I've had to stay up really ... winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... support can go a long way. I've been very lucky to have the amazing support -
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Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food
In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding and moving to an apartment together with my boyfriend Cory and our close ... fourth floor. We have a beautiful view, and three large windows to watch it -
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Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.
“Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what ... slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas -
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The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V
of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... applied to college 2 years ago (2 years! I'm old :( ), I wrote over a dozen unique essays to all the colleges I applied to (btw - applying to 15 -
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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 prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively decided to present An Actual Day in My Life, Fall 2005 Version. 8:15 -- The -
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Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™
similar program to Splash. Except, you know, it's virtual. And the ... learn to adapt The fruit of my labor Impostor A sense of scale ... idea to give an introduction to ESP, and what we do, that's shorter than -
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study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do
since it's my last semester, I've been trying to spend more time ... 'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these -
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We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie
wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I ... you get something like this to happen? Final exams and projects are ... -semester classes. And, normally, you have to show up and actually take them, or -
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Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives
. But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the ... ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get -
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The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…
, Burton-Conner's internet went out. Somewhat analogous to the power outage ... - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the air, as freshmen were trampled by upperclassmen rioting to reset the -
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halloween down the infinite
close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... post some of them here. My day started off by running to lecture because -
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Dissecting emotion what is feeling
without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to ... out of campus due to COVID. At once it feels like fourteen months has ... talking. The next day a friend invited me to have lunch with his friends -
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How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in
According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it