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MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?
; In law school Technical staff at Los Alamos (MIT PhD) Technical ... will be helpful. In anticipation of our 10-year reunion, I emailed all ... responded; I have listed all responses below in the order that the emails show -
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I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.
fateful day in September, so long ago. So, no, I have not forgotten about my ... blogs I promised in here will still get written, but I need to finish my ... ever taken at MIT (the second lowest comes in at 54, which is four and a -
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21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye
got an offer letter. I spent that summer interning in Google’s Los ... , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I -
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A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures
I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... arrive in Harvard Square 10:01am arrive at L.A. Burdick's This particular ... professors, whether it's in an academic context like office hours or running -
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My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.
are not in a restaurant where the owner wants you to buy an actual meal ... smelly bus in Spain -- with music blasting in my ears, and do that thing where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot -
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The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.
of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the changes they make in the real world. Unfortunately the commencement video ... click here to watch it in its natural environment. In particular, there are two -
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From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor
. I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two ... :45am my advisor texted me saying I should come back in. The chair tried ... had to turn off his video etc -- ahh, PhD defenses in the Zoom era -
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College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!
need, and where you should buy it, and what you should bring from home or what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... -shopping, as was Melis's list. If you're interested in finding out what you -
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Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends
could, in principle, buy a rack, but the pandemic price-gouging was likely ... pernicious myth."]connection between body and mind[/annotation] to keep both in ... in a way that is measurable in a messy world that so often defies that -
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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 ... asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even -
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Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success
't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in AP classes and participated in extracurriculars but still didn't know ... about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I -
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Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk
, despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which ... didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... , 1994. It had already expired, and belonged in the trashcan, but somehow -
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Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT
I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought I would. I grew up in small towns in Vermont and New Hampshire, and -
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Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT
, since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It ... computer not suffer on my behalf. Here are some things you should buy for your computer, once you buy your computer: A padded laptop bag with -
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My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room
, California, and Joie lives in Los Angeles, California. Amanda graduated with a ... I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which we call floorpi. And on floorpi, I live in room H306, which looks like