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Adulthood Boom!
Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging. -
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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 ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... began what is easily the most demanding of days I have lived through. What -
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IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.
A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... piles of dirty laundry, p-sets, paper, scarves, and pencils. The drawers -
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From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor
“He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... a temple of science.” Ending of First Light by Richard Preston My thesis defense was at 9:30am over Zoom, with a committee of six professors -
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Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.
At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... panorama of my door, also attached. YQ L. ‘15 As you might know, I do a lot -
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Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…
One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a desert storm. And one of the Guild's oldest traditions is the ten-day game -
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Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?
MIT has a lot of resources that could have made my freshman year a ... the 2015 HASS requirements. So, uh, whoops. By way of apology, I'll do ... remainder of your prefroshly days, for once in my brief but glorious -
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150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know
, or the readings from this OCW course. These are all histories of MIT, yes, not the kind of history that I like reading for fun. What ... of the GIRs, or historical admissions videos. And it turns out there -
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anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body
classic american college experience: classes, clubs, a diverse group of ... am referring to the 6 stem classes that must be taken (or tested out of) by all undergraduates"]girs [/annotation]done following the advice of -
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The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake
I've been busy recently because of CPW. Like last year, CPW is being ... people sent lots of messages. Trinidad, one of the admissions directors ... not be tolerated[/caption] Unfortunately, I was weak of will. It -
Blog / About Decisions
To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit
admitted students weekend of another school in the Northeast, which we ... . Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of ... of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on -
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Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed
Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just ... student center study sessions, a few office hours, and a lot of late -
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major takeaways: from every semester of mit
's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... hate most about this time of year. I've never had a good spring semester ... done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do -
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Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?
off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken ... . There may be an onslaught of information bursting toward you like an ... ? Take a step back, relax, and revel. First of all, and perhaps easier said -
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the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤
being intense, silly, and a lot of fun. This blog is my story of ... popular of my ideas was an adjustable platform boot that could lift a person ... -to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this -
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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…
days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the ... scent of carnage spread over all of dorm row, until all of West Campus -
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25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums
Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former ... screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would -
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Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!
creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a LaTeX-based CAPTCHA, and the super PAC Why Not ZoidPAC?, of which he is President and ... his final paper for STS.050 (The History of MIT), about the founding of -
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MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.
, and now has the third most views on all of Youtube. 560,719,326 views, as of 8:23am today. 560,719,327 a few minutes later, because a friend ... the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up