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Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.
leave the Boston area for graduate school. I think that those two ... way I had a group of friends in high school. My most precious MIT ... school down the road at Hahvahd. That kind of thing happens a lot, too -
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Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.
So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems ... through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a ... school. Frat parties? I’ve never been! Super Smash Bros? I’ve never played -
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I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"
! I took improvised solos for seven years. I joined the middle school jazz band in sixth grade, and then continued with the high school version ... I hid behind my music stand. Three years later, I was in high school -
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I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account
missing high school an inordinate amount lately. I come from a very small town, where the people I graduated high school alongside are the people I ... , after high school graduation, people go into the workforce or stay local -
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On identity f(x) = x
elementary school. I was the only person I knew who would read recreational ... and a cover with tiny wrinkles and rips. When I entered middle school ... definitely in the top ten or so. Good enough that I represented our school in -
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On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.
America Challenge, which sends about a dozen students to schools around the ... host teaches Algebra I, Algebra II, and Pre-Calculus. The high school is ... fewer go on to college. School. Otherwise known as my second home. I -
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HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help
safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so ... crossword puzzles, seeing high school friends, and missing MIT. I had intended -
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I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.
blissfully by our high school pool, basking in the afternoon sunlight ... would encounter there. High school was amazing and all, but I was ready to ... where I will ultimately end up for med school (that comes in a few weeks -
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Application dreaming
read an old MIT brochure from the 1980s I discovered at a school I ... ? What's the environment like around your school? What about your parents -
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the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤
mechanical work. Which is frankly the perfect realization for me. My degree -
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[Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama
participating in extracurricular activities. Years of attending a school that ... allowing her to go to concerts. (Yes, even on a school night.) We would line ... concerts. I can't go to school for her. I can't study for her or take the -
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I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese
Habesha, we are Habesha!” When I started going to school, the teacher would ... ’s culture a lot, and would go to school with or seek out other kids like them ... Shanghainese in my American school, and was beginning to learn Mandarin. I could -
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Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!
a Harvard student calling MIT their engineering school, an MIT student ... ? Harvard and MIT students can cross-register for classes at the other school -
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25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums
convinced I wouldn't get in because I wasn't even in the top 10% at my school, and most of the other schools I applied to were art schools anyway. My ... school ended, and I had homework to do, but I was too stressed out to -
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Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…
motivation to excel in high school and slowly figuring out an answer to “how ... so much more than the school you go to. Appreciate who you are right ... pursuing your passions, apply to other schools. Maybe MIT will become your -
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tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years
The fall semester has just started, and the 2025s have poured onto campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of them are still bubbling with questions about their dorms, all the -
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Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me
other word. “Benjamin-behalf-the-Committee-is-pleasure-offer…….” Mom, it -
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Thoughts. Future. Kindness
back to Macgregor from the library? MITPD was always there to offer me a -
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A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.
-weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office