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Blog / Academics & Research
The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?
yourself what you've gotten yourself into, let me assure you of another truth ... first set of thoughts about coming here. Following CPW, you're positively electric with the thought of classes and schoolwork. You think you'll come -
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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives
Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the actual event, the Ring Committee reveals the designs of our class year -
Blog / Academics & Research
The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web
is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing ... short answer is that I discovered the joys of web development. The long ... the past two years, in order of when they happened. Of course, these are -
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Blog / Best of the Blogs
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. -
Blog / Admissions
International Men & Women of Mystery
*Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... definition. For purposes of MIT Admissions, an international student is a ... every student's full financial need. MIT is one of only a handful of -
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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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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 -
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and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor
I've been watching a lot of chess. Watching, not playing. My eyes ... patterns. Pawn takes, knight takes back, bishop takes. It's a game of who gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening -
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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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An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.
DID YOU KNOW? The famous Pioneer Zephyr trains of the 1940's were ... professors. During the first week of my product design and development class ... , and a bunch of awestruck students breathlessly explained, "OH, he came -
Blog / About Decisions
In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now
senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people who knew exactly what they want to do with life. I was terrified of the -
Blog / About Decisions
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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9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.
Figure 1. Life outside of classes. A) Study break to make Matt ... something to my cello case while I was out of the room. G) My hallmates and I have taken to sitting out in the hall. This is one of our handful of
