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If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?
when something like this happens (kind of equivalent to when famous ... to watch. It doesn't go into scramble mode very often, the only other times I've seen it are immediately prior to CPW and before the Dalai Lama -
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wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class
I want to switch into 8.02, that’s gotta happen today. This blog was not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never -
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Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward
to myself 1.7 years ago during my first visit to MIT: Wednesday: I ... comp-sci major, "If you press a certain combination of keys and go to a ... unsent drafts and attachments old and neglected enough to be hanging out in -
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The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application
. So let's discuss admissions data. First, I'd like to say that I ... to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it ... . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural -
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Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.
to keep going or are scared about the present or future. A panic ... to catch one's breath. One's chest might hurt from not breathing ... thing to get under control when you are feeling overwhelmed and/or anxious -
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Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art
more. Similar to the first option, this topic was too broad, maybe even ... to the side of the chocolate mousse in the first dessert but there wasn ... think I hadn't? I feel like after I knew what it was, I started to see it -
Blog / About Decisions
So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...
needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on the internet and dived into research. It didn’t take long to come across College Confidential. At first, it seemed like a rare gem - a unique -
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Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad
to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an international study abroad program, but that I also dove head first into a liberal arts ‘immersion’ program. As someone used to equations, numbers and -
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Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed
of the key ideas behind my project – using my little microcontroller to ... out to be much harder than I had originally anticipated. When I first ... (basically infinite) resolution and reacts to changes in the signal almost -
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An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.
excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dormwide social ... boon to those of us who are data-curious and kind of creepy. All MIT -
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sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related
A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and ... Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters ... ="aligncenter" width="454"] PROOF![/caption] To be fair, we’re completely different. I -
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in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection
. last wednesday morning i went to my first class of intro to acting, which ... downstairs and took a walk, and the sun was setting. so i tried to find as high a point i could stand on to watch the sunset. i ended up walking to, i -
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smoke and spice my comfort meal
, which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to -
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TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.
to get your work done. The Students are very cooperative. The key is ... traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... childhood interests. I never thought that by going to college here I would be -
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The end of a chapter
was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and -
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My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room
from owner to owner, like the couches, the round table, some of the posters. it’s also right next to the lounge, which is a plus. it’s an ... Khan, who used to live in the room of bloggers Danny and Allan? Where are -
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Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan
season ends around May, and the rainy season ranges from maybe June to October. Overnight, the winds would abruptly switch from amihan to habagat, from the northeast to the southwest monsoon. Habagat brings in hot, humid -
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Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates
Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... students here who could build a giant flamethrowing exoskeleton to invade ... ; During my first CPW, at the MIT Professor Talent Show, Charles -
