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It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.
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MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )
new random obstacles along the way, like the herd of wandering cows and ... loops on a highway of rainbows. There is no way to uniformly describe how ... in the subject than you are. Either way, you'll benefit from further -
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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"
things that way. It takes a whole new dimension of gut, though, to hold -
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I Challenge You Pi day approaches.
. You are guaranteed to meet hurdles and obstacles on the way to getting -
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Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.
accepted to MIT? No. But it doesn't work that way. Because here -
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Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.
that's out of the way, it's worth mentioning that they are an incredible -
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Into the Smoke In more ways than one.
twenty minutes by bike, faster than the Underground and way faster than the -
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I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.
Part way through the ceremony, some people broke out half a dozen beach -
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neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?
didn't happen), try to remember forgotten cheers, and get way too -
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The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V
will come my way." I feel like the most beautiful college essays are the ... the MIT main essay) - but don't approach it in the same way as you would ... "luring" the reader in. The college essay is very much the same way - the -
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An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…
friends and family, and it went way too fast. I hate being schmoopy above -
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Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.
ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on -
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There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…
who chose to commute an hour each way to attend a certain school, and -
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Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus
you live off campus is so variable, there's no way to make a universal ... ways I can get there, how long each would take, and when I would need to ... for students. Because I live in Cambridge, the most effective way to me -
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Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure
less affordable for many students; the price differential is way too high ... one of the options will eventually be removed. That way, we can take a student's preferences into account in a way that doesn't force them between -
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The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake
, there were also way more FSILGs that wanted to host prefrosh than there ... , that they were assigned way fewer prefrosh than they requested. This was ... author, by the way, wrote another column about their CPW experience this -
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Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.
a Wonder Woman power pose. On the way from the bathroom to the ... above are equidecomposable. Below is another of the many ways that they ... decomposed in such a way that its pieces can be reassembled into a square, as -
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Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…
're interested in a longer exposition. By the way, he's now the creative director ... go around MIT, you might spot these colored dots in out-of-the-way -
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fish metaphors on queerness
they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at ... is no "right way" to resolve this cognitive dissonance. Pride flags and -
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The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety
world still dealing with COVID. Either way, it fundamentally boils down to ... is that I expanded my threshold from my room all the way to the