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My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months
of this week, I am officially a published researcher! WOOOOOOOO!!!!! I'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and human -
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Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…
is my eighth Reg Day, although I only count seven of them. It’s also the fourth time I’ve sat on the Returning Student Luncheon panel of… the ... are four of us. We’re a good group, a healthy mix of ages, genders, and -
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Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”
The bridge of one of my favorite songs goes: Malingap, buwis ... prefer to think of MIT as malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay ... of frats hosted a boat cruise, where my friend took me along as his -
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An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?
obsession with astrology. Scientifically speaking, there are tons of reasons ... would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of ... everything I say with a grain of salt. However, whether you agree with what I -
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Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend
communicators about their specialty, but am equally admiring of writers like David ... The Flight of the Iguana and First Light, respectively; reading those ... my dream job. You learn and write about any area of science that -
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tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!
're not freshmen/freshpeople until after convocation! ~Conservation of frosh ... .[annotation note= "And then some of them will leave again! To everyone heading to ... kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe -
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Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives
Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the actual event, the Ring Committee reveals the designs of our class year -
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The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web
is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing ... short answer is that I discovered the joys of web development. The long ... the past two years, in order of when they happened. Of course, these are -
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What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.
, 80% of the time. I'm glad that I made friends at other universities ... At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... from Day 1 that most of my professors didn't waltz unobstructed from -
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Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™
perspective will be different, because, you know, I was one of the three directors of the program. The why game Teach anything, learn anything ... good kind of contagious In these challenging times The students are -
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Your last first day and your final final exam
activities. I remember the form I had to fill out to accept my offer of ... my offer of admission. It's been too long ago that I know I'm inventing ... Content warning: mention of suicide, discussion of death. Quotes are -
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MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.
Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading ... : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT, especially around this time of the semester. The rest of this blog post is by -
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Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston
regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus -
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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 ... pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper's office in the Student Center. Last night was one of those nights; let me -
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The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT
. If the amusing rivalry of Harvard and MIT was ever unclear, it makes sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... . Harvard has solemn portraits of old men looking smart in decorated frames -
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On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.
When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even -
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On identity f(x) = x
surrounded by people who excel in every corner of the universe, and no longer ... . I have these kinds of conversations all the time, every day. But these ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to -
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Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.
system, but doesn't offer any examples of the problems. At the end of the ... QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech ... you can think of an everyday English equivalent. (vi) Break any of -
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Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.
quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them ... recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this ... textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high
