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Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.
I've mentioned a couple times that, like East Campus, Burton-Conner is first divided into Burton and Conner side, and then from there, into ... living groups but also of universities), so it's really fantastic that at -
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The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.
-bombing! That e-mail was subsequently e-mailed to the East Campus dorm list and ... day. Rock. Also, note the appearance of George Mason University, Wellesley College, and Bob Jones University. None of them had actually been on -
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Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15
Center for Bits and Atoms. In June, Spencer graduated with a degree in ... universities, and Spencer was among 31 selected; the scholarship will fund his ... Linn Hobbs. Though tempted by many to begin work at the State Department -
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Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests
state legislators. Their leadership has galvanized students at schools ... may in turn be reported to universities to which they applied. Indeed ... right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not -
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I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world
the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling ... prestigious school. My eyes were set on a good, local university that would not ... . But not everyone who is deferred gets offered a spot in the class, and -
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An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)
university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and ... pursued summer internships in labs at universities, has been working on ... chose all my schools (including MIT) on a whim. I picked a variety of in-state -
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All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)
of an undergraduate college degree. My friend, who I love very dearly ... trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before ... the confined walls of a university and its limiting course requirements -
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“You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students
, public, and international universities. Some took a so-called “non ... transfer students: Gaurab Previous institution: Purdue University (West ... Engineering) Krithik Previous institution: The University of Auckland -
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sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child
attend Ivies and top state universities and small liberal arts colleges and ... -year-old me, Deresiewicz offered a terrifying prospect. I didn’t want to be a ... job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back -
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[joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤
region of campus']east campus,[/annotation] attached to Stata, so very convenient for those living in [annotation note='now referring to the dorm']East ... photos—would’ve grabbed some had it been open']East Campus -
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Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)
A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel[/annotation]of East Campus. I was coming from the east parallel, where I had been -
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Colors In every sense of the word
Missouri, a southern state university, Yale, a new england private university ... that, on a much less international level, here in the United States, many ... United States is arguably becoming worse than it has been in recent years -
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the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts
becoming.[/annotation] And after bloggers receive their diplomas alongside ... of this four-year university model. These [annotation note="around a ... . But as we started posting, more bloggers reached out and offered to -
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Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times
plaintiff, about whether and how colleges and universities may consider race ... , Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), universities are allowed to consider race only ... among many factors in the admission of students to selective STEM degree -
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Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011
. Ultimately, next year instead of joining a purely research University on ... state where I literally knew no one, the people were different, the ... if I was selected to MIT, or else if I had gone for a degree in -
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The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application
which occur in our universe. But there is a problem with social science ... whatever data we do release. If we released admit rate by state, it would be ... considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that -
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It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.
it? There is no universal definition. So as it stands, enrollment ... is access, and the standards are specified by the state legislature. If ... university community facilitate that experience, but it all begins with the -
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I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.
DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight ... quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... fifth-degree polynomial, because it's well-known that work varies as the -
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Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).
before states. Dreaming about nationals. Crying on the bus home when we ... so many wonderful universes around and within me, that college ... lives won’t be dragons that a college degree could help with, and I am