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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
year, around January 1st, we received a paper application in the mail ... , 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 -
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November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction
month later. Two Novembers 1st's ago, I visited the Google office in ... early actioners, whether you get in or not, you did it. You applied, pat ... someone who's not even the valedictorian or has never been in a science fair -
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I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D
fort with rope bridges, 3d twister, and a wrestling pit filled with hair ... -day party before term starts when frosh find their home(s) at MIT, in every ... roof below—I know I must be in the right place. The first floor of -
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10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.
Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you -
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An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.
exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... consonant strings like 'dx' and 'dt' in permutations whose English ... -inducing passage from Faulkner's Light in August: Memory believes before knowing -
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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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The end of a chapter
was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... rising senior *letting out a little scream in my head*. After a year ... :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite-things-in -
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Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”
. Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to ... prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... . Malingap is someone giving me an impromptu tour of East Campus in the middle -
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Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who
in the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture.']history of comic ... Comic book history Cultural legitimacy In practice Experience logistics In the flesh Holding candles Creative goods Feedback loops -
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Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.
bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like -
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21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye
, 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 celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what -
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[Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25
: “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in ... it. Comparing that to my experiences in places such as New York City ... ’m writing this in my dorm room overlooking the city of Boston. Ultimately, I -
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Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning
you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only ... expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is -
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[joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center
"]for historical reasons,[/annotation]opened in April of 2018, after SL1, SL2, SL4, and SL5 were in service. CJ: We filled a couple blackboards following ... route through a whole loop, and even run between adjacent stations. In -
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Race Against Myself Learning how to walk
In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems ... worse. In 1st grade, I read this story called The Tortoise and the Hare ... pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in