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The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?
2.5 months of chewing, a faceless algorithm spits out a decision. Or ... of time reading alone. My amazing, very human, non-pizza colleagues and I read every single part of your application. We synthesize the -
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Blog / Academics & Research
Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates
Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their ... few weeks back. This got me thinking of MIT people who just kind of -
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An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside
mission, as it were, was to dig through this mystery box of old DVDs, CDs, and tapes of admissions movies and pictures and unearth anything funny ... /label/digitize everything but that’s less interesting). So, here are some of the coolest -
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On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave
I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I ... is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects ... to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about -
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parallel universe for those feeling dejected
, except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look ... time; one where you try new things and expand your sense of what is possible; one where the future still stretches out ahead of you, opaque -
Blog / Admissions
Painting by number The anti-formula
the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number ... , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... formulas. When you combine the idea of creating an image based upon numbers -
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A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?
If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people ... the side of Goodale (the northeast corner of East Campus): -
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Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek
buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus ... architectural styles, the atmosphere of cumulative, continuing history it creates, and the view of the river. There’s romance in losing sleep and body heat -
Blog / About Decisions
Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions
I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of ... I feel my blood run cold. Of the many memorable and inspirational -
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i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*
content warning: discussions of roach uwu Roaches are curious little ... a roach spawn point for about a week. Most of them however, were ... ’s got instincts akin to that of an experienced hunter. Harley is also the -
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Critter gaze upon my son
, a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten" which features [annotation note="Last week we heard from Skylar Tibbits of the Self-Assembly Lab; this week we heard from David Sun Kong of the -
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Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.
superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently ... ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy industrialist and head of Stark Industries, and Maria Stark. Tony is a boy genius -
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Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do
First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That ... feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch -
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Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).
while I was here. 32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major ... was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you have plenty of hard drive space, so you have no excuse. 22. Take some -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
sea glass turbulent waves in these parts
the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate ... state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... claims. 4) you get a final decision of accept or reject -
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Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?
Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this
