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A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.
’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week. Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your -
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Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons
This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL ... tips to figure out where you’ll fit best: Ask multiple residents about -
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i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming
freshman. Covid [annotation note="you got up to five other people who you could interact with normally; you had to remain socially distanced from ... taught me how to stand up for myself, hold others accountable, and take -
Blog / Academics & Research
I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese
them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China, we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in the Jiangsu province area. I remember being able to speak Shanghainese -
Blog / About Decisions
To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit
about why I decided to commit to MIT. I tried to keep it as close as possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some details. It’s the fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the -
Blog / About Decisions
An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)
student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing against major news platforms and don’t want to belittle stories that ... applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever -
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HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096
: how to not burn yourself Reach toward hot things (or potentially hot ... heat. how to taper, rivet, chisel, and assorted other skills. tapering is ... -ended nails that hold pieces of metal together. They are very hard to forge -
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How to date at an American college Things we never talk about
sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real ... physically abusive relationships. It is also, uhh, going to be a really long -
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Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality
. Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get people to ask questions about your silly hats. Take pictures of yourself -
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how to sail against the wind on tacking
, to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... head-to-head, and in this example, the boat and the wind were in opposite -
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How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(
universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the culture at MIT. Considering that the workload here is commonly referred to ... ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like -
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101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.
Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... entered MIT. Now, four years later, I get to post my own version - courtesy of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos -
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25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums
. We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... eat the ice cream to celebrate; if I did not, I would eat the ice cream to make myself feel better. M.B. ‘17 I had just finished the -
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How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly
going to go out just before CPW, but that got canceled, so… Anyway, here ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... campus. These parts are defined by roads. Everything to the west of -
Blog / Athletics
[joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤
intro Gloria: Contrary to popular belief, MIT students actually do ... Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick 2AM lift often turn to their in-building fitness facilities instead -
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sea glass turbulent waves in these parts
the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... conference I submitted to works: 1) you submit your paper. 2) three reviewers -
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things that are golden a zine
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay -
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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.
walking later," to my second-grade phase of "Why learn to tie my shoes now ... to wear velcro." I have never, ever been one to get anything done ... soooo much effort." At MIT, though, I've tried to remedy this countless -
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Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT
this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... , students were being asked to leave campus. No one had expected that. No one. If Harvard was closing down, MIT was probably going to do the same
