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To the Deferred I feel your pain.
. ~*~ I started tossing essay ideas around in my mind soon after the 2009 ... about how much I loved reading, how Course 9 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) blew my mind, how my school was teeming with energy and diversity, how I -
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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.
corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then ... of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... :) Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I -
Blog / About Decisions
So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...
an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... a good sense of how competitive of an applicant I was or what sort of ... Confidential had the answers to all of my questions - about how I should approach -
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Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.
even in all the dorms at MIT. Yeah, I said it. BURTON 1 FREAKIN' ROCKS ... that I've established that, we can all go home. I say this lightly, of ... than just dorms in a hall, and also I totally just ruined the joke by -
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tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!
!"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... KNOW nothing I say will change that. But trust me, in four years, you ... .) In that vein, I think that one REX-specific piece of advice is that it -
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Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable
my own story of how unnecessary all that stress can be. Back when I ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... that were in my eyes, I counted every possible point against me: a 690 on -
Blog / Admissions
An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?
Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy ... their sun, moon, and rising signs so that I can give them an "astrological reading." Thus, I've decided to share my secret talent with you all in the -
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Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™
people in ESP, checking in on me, asking how I was doing, both from the day ... . It feels like I've grown. That much, I can tell. But in what ways, I ... Representations of Girlhood in Modern Cinema, Lambda Calculus and Puzzles, how 2 -
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Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh
feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no ... live in, what clubs I wanted to join. Some things are going according to -
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actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation
* * * ME: hi i'm allan ME: how's it going FROSH: cool ME: cool ME: have i ... and i can't believe this roller coaster and wow ME: omg yeah i know ... : hey ME: hey FROSH: can i have my hair dyed ME -
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Save Point sleep wake hope
their own advantages and limitations. I can't just make things up when I blog, for one thing. :) I don't know how many of you reading this are ... . Because in the end, I truly believe that MIT is what it is today because of -
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Admissions advice from someone who’s been there
living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... 't. ******************************************************************************************************************************************* As you can see by my post count, I'm new here. One of the things I ... applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure -
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A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format
Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this ... how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes -
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sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related
exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw ... barely overlap. In fact, our lives don’t overlap much; I’ve bumped into ... desperately wanted to distinguish myself in some way, but I always felt that she -
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Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day
I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... here in Israel) is something that forces you to stop. It can be ... that–kids. When I first met my adviser, she must have mentioned how young -
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An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.
I can understand this paragraph. After confessing this to myself, it ... minutes. Ex: I couldn't find your room because all the floors in Mc ... “run away from this as fast as you can.” Ex: I hear that East Campus -
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HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018
exactly what you want. October? I have no idea what happened in October. That’s how fast it went. November. I looked up from my p-sets, exams and ... niche and was growing more comfortable in it daily. I wasn’t just barely -
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Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend
continued to disturb me: how can I be so different from my fellow physicists ... 'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous ... then there are my professors, who have, as far as I can tell, been -
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Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…
other angsty 20-year-old emotion I can throw at them. Through all of it they are supportive and tell me to keep doing what I can. They constantly remind me that I'm at the hardest school in the country, the fact that I
