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I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese
class called 21G.046: Chinese Modern Fiction and Cinema. One day, we ... ; A huge thanks to my 21G.110: Chinese Streamlined 4 lecturer at MIT -
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5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)
. Yet Caroline is now contemplating switching to Course 14, Michelle is in Course 14, and I just filled out the application to pursue a secondary major in Course 14. If you are a senior in high school, don't trust your -
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My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo
In two days, I will be officially graduating this place. I will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science) But the most important thing that I take with me -
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Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core
strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major -
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Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…
, Joey V. '17, Diana L. '17, Rachel R. '16, Jamal E. '14. I couldn't have -
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This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.
I love getting mail. Actual mail, that is: packages and postcards and letters with actual human handwriting. I was therefore super pumped to find a package slip in my mailbox… -
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I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"
The brass drops off, and suddenly you’re alone with the rhythm section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth. This is improvisation: there is… -
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I Challenge You Pi day approaches.
As decision day draws nearer, “who” questions are taking priority. “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who… -
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Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad
International Honors Program: Cities in the 21st Century. It is a comparative -
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How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in
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Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers
I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin: Samuel Maurer’s Day Off Good story, right? 5 months after this entry was written I moved into… -
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Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times
total approximately equal to 2^11.514. Just for clarity, these cookies ... = 11.514)[/caption] I arrived at 2 East when they had just reached the -
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How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(
. Base Pay: $19.00/hr, plus $0.50/hr for each semester Information -
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Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned
I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this letter may… -
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Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.
the light of day soon). I took 21M.301 - Harmony and Counterpoint I this semester. This is the first real music theory class, after 21M.051 -
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Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!
. Take your grain, the appropriate amount of water (most grains use a 2:1 -
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“I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…
seemed interesting to me: 21W.747 (Rhetoric), 21W.762 (Poetry Workshop -
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Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief
’ve never been so happy being so miserable. I ended up dropping 14 -
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Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…
I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I took the class twice and dropped it twice. It wasn’t just because it had difficult concepts and brutal…