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Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests
across the country to join them in protests, including several school ... may in turn be reported to universities to which they applied. Indeed ... report to our office any conduct that may result or has resulted in any -
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Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.
something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... forgot to turn in until I was almost back in my room. That meant I had to ... was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems -
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(Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time
. As I'm getting prepared to move away from it, I'm starting to see how ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my -
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10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.
-yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in -
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Grey and Other Colors
pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay ... about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in -
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Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"
to take and helping the administrators figure out how popular classes ... you don't get to take the HASS you want to take that semester. I ... classes I wanted to take in the fall. Then, as has happened the last few -
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Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough
are excited to tell me about how they relate to MIT. Believe it or not, some alumni actually look forward to getting calls from us because they ... ’m not interested in giving to MIT,” he told me. “I’m sorry to hear that -
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nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post
activities in Zoom rooms. It's a lot of fun, and getting to meet and talk to so ... remains to be seen about how our subcommunities will actually function in ... I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start -
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Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned
themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... get in than people like us.” In order to fit in I would laugh and try to ... experiences. I was waiting in line with my head more or less glued to -
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A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies
hardships. But in times like this when we go through hardships, no matter how ... students telling me how I had encouraged them to continue striving on past ... to two hundred responses in close to three days. So I say this to you -
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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…
pointed out to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math ... by an inbred desire to "succeed," in the vaguest possible sense of the ... (remember, this is a kid who didn't know what an Allen key was or how to -
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Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core
, and instead put in earplugs to focus. I didn’t just read recitation ... , making me feel terrible about how much I have to face with no energy or ... ’m somewhere between emotionally numb, about to cry but can’t, and in intense -
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Fit or happiness made easy
Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... your life--how well you fit in at school, at work or at home affects more -
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IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.
who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know ... or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I ... what I am majoring in? Why do I exist? I lost hope. I started to see no -
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my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!
's supposed to start getting actually warm in a few days, which I hope comes ... event: any student majoring in EECS can line up to get free food. Usually ... about making it to my 1 pm on time, but I get in line. Luckily, it moves -
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Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…
health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... three lessons in my experience, equally applicable both to swimming and to life. First, get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic. Second, if -
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A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!
with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office ... Climate Project at MIT. The goal of this project is to figure out how to get ... endeavors. She is proud of MIT and how it can provide real solutions to -
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some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…
, how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... smoothly. BUT: I hadn't thought at all about how I would feel in the days -
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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
realize a grievous error. He had forgotten to get any macaroni! Ultimately ... across to his finders in some way. Maybe MIT students just like to have fun and decided to see how long Milk could last. Either way, Milk was let
