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Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict
For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... of studying in the US would be like, but we spoke in the offhanded ... ” or “running for president”. I had read one of the MIT blogs once -
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Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!
committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do tons of events throughout the year to connect students and grow together ... the chaos of MIT to do no work and hang out with believers and friends -
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Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief
. My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... sort of caffeine from the convenience store across the street from the ... crosswalk. But when I got there, I kept going. The rain felt good, the night -
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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 ... when making your decision. Ask if the floors or lounges of the dorm ... of upperclassmen to help you, but you can also avoid the learning -
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Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?
around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this ... you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was -
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Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python
many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of ... and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over ... Draftback to extract a log of my editing history on my agenda. The log contains every -
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November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction
were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really ... that I had an extra import statement at the top of my main file which ... not too long after a member of our family died of cancer. The -
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Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable
suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting ... taken earlier. So I'll try two approaches to make the point: one of them -
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MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard
thought was a pretty good, snappy essay, the sort of essay that routinely ... . After a lifetime of being smart and good at school — the thing that had ... , brought by hundreds of yellow schoolbuses, will gather on a field near the -
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Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.
in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... the product of intense cognition, I thought I'd share some of my views ... , such were the days of my innocent youth, when I believed that Chemistry -
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WHY? for people who don't like "no"
. The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... a good college and proved all the haters wrong! but mine was more like ... is represented in all capital letters in English translations of the -
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Fit or happiness made easy
along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword ... part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... for those pieces of your current self and the pieces of who you want to -
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Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down
, the city never sleeps. Yes, it throbs with life. Yes, a good number of ... , pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This ... up with, even in the absence of much else, and I’m sure being -
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To the Deferred I feel your pain.
limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story ... questions (What do you do for the pleasure of it? Which department or program ... of the world"...' and 'Describe the world you come from'), an optional -
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There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.
the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... began following the lives of Ben, Matt, and Mitra. Soon after, Sam and I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend
The Flight of the Iguana and First Light, respectively; reading those ... areas of science and deeply resent the idea of having to specialize, and ... MIT. Literally. At the beginning of the semester, when I finally stopped -
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MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy
the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for ... corridors of time, and I ricocheted around the house, asking questions, trying ... visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be -
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finding place
. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... Activities Period), I was out watching the stars with a good friend when he
