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sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related
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 ... . This is nothing but reassuring to me. When I was considering going -
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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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Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.
.424, information theory. The other seminar topics we get to choose from are real ... , and my third topic was Hilbert’s third problem, which we’ll get to know ... -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of -
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[Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them
door, and get a fan to ventilate the whole place unless you want to ... exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... [annotation note="I won’t specify which, and I hope that you will never need to -
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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 ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their ... students here who could build a giant flamethrowing exoskeleton to invade -
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Adulthood Boom!
Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging. -
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50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS
pioneer, and the second woman to graduate from MIT Robert Noyce '53 ... Salvador Luria Ivan Getting '33 was a primer developer of GPS Bose ... public-sanitation and environmental chemistry expert and the first woman to -
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Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times
attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment — alongside President Kornbluth — to reaffirm our commitment to diversity in a time of great uncertainty about the future of affirmative action, and to -
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A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video
me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot -
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I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese
them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China, we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in the Jiangsu province area. I remember being able to speak Shanghainese -
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things that are golden a zine
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay -
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Painting by number The anti-formula
out to be woefully short on substance. I want to revisit and elaborate on that notion because it remains apropos today as students continue to seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters -
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Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.
and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... 'm saying to comfort myself.☺ Since graduating, I’ve been thinking a lot about two questions: why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT, and why I was keen to -
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Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!
(obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much (as you will soon see…). I’m incredibly excited to be going to Oxford next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some -
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senioritis not to be confused with señoritis
surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had ... ! i didn't really think senioritis this semester would turn out to be -
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sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child
Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided ... handed me a stack of poker chips. “Use these to place bets.” She gestured ... -actualization when one could listen to podcasts wirelessly? A few minutes later, I was
