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Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.
It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I ... happened to be standing right there, going on about amide formation. And then ... , terminating both his life and my dreams of graduating (as well as my reputation -
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10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.
and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger, I’ve written about this before (here , here, and here), but I thought ... most diverse interests. There are the pre-meds and the hackers, the -
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VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April
Tube community, and it's basically a month when a bunch of (usually smaller ... organized than something like NaNoWriMo, and more just an excuse to be disciplined and make consistent content. I'm going to use it to motivate myself -
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5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind
five videos (in reverse chronological order) and written some notes and thoughts about them. I also pulled some pictures and gifs of the most ... worthwhile watch and can be helpful if you're missing MIT like I am. Some -
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Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it
have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again ... , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the area and asked if I wanted to get dinner. Rejoicing that once again -
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A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.
, disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn ... AM, a pset due at noon, and a lab due at 5 PM. You haven’t started working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me -
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señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos
multiple times and i promised i would write up a longer answer. the question ... plenty of time for both... so being slammed with opportunities and open ... and family and drop everything if i need to make time for someone. "life -
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Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?
, the legend, has taught for Splash. And this will be yet another post ... ’s a weekend where high schoolers come to MIT and take classes about ... this post so late? I was busy, okay."]November 23 and 24,[/annotation -
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Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure
love that each dorm has a unique vibe and set of traditions and that ... somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... home to nine different floors with unique cultures, histories, and -
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Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go
, that small sadness of being alone and left on campus when everyone ... ’t cried about it. And it’s odd, because I came into this whole mess getting ready to be sad. It’s like, you know when you’re going up stairs, and you -
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It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you
own colonies, and becoming the iconic first president and, in many ways ... command was something he had long envisioned for himself and driven towards, and something that stung deeply when it was denied him. It was also -
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ATHack A day well spent helping others
teams are presented with an opportunity to come up with an idea and actually make it. Some are more free form and allow teams to create a solution to a problem they define. Others are more focused and have everyone -
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How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.
) spending three hours with a bunch of other nerds and a stack of pizza boxes ... elbow grease, carcinogenic automotive lubricant, and a home-brewed mesh of gears, motors, and bike chain that could easily tear my scalp off as I -
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MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament
lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting ... , Smith, Wellesley, Wheaton, Mount Holyoke, WPI, and of course MIT. After -
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The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio
's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to ... AM with the (vaguely) shocking realization that I had to read and ... ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of -
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Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT
experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do ... that got a lot of attention, and I thought it might be a good idea to go -
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So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...
perfect GPA, my interviewer loved me, I had founded a few clubs, and my test ... math SAT was 40 points below MIT’s lower 25th percentile, and I wasn ... colleges and had drafted a handful of generic essays, but really didn’t have -
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Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times
“The winter has come. The days are dark, cold, and dreary. There is little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this climate of despair and misery, we finally go crazy. All rationality is lost -
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Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.
from toddling around on the carpet and thinking "I suppose I'll try ... before it's due. I'm well aware that this is one of my greatest flaws, and ... myself that if I get it done now I won't have to worry about it later, and