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Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk
didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... year, around January 1st, we received a paper application in the mail ... , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which -
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November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction
month later. Two Novembers 1st's ago, I visited the Google office in ... . I spent days after I submitted my application pacing back and forth in ... chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early -
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The end of a chapter
that I would love to talk about in future blog posts! All in all ... a disease, in my mind I think of the mechanisms of infection ... though! In Cambridge, I also fell in love with the history and beautiful -
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An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.
minutes. Ex: I couldn't find your room because all the floors in Mc ... smaller segments. Ex: -Did you pass the swim test? -I did in fact swim four ... exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday -
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“You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...
between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of ... occurence that it's not until I'm away from campus that it really sinks in how ... That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It -
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AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?
-Mobile, I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie ... —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid -
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Race Against Myself Learning how to walk
’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of ... worse. In 1st grade, I read this story called The Tortoise and the Hare ... In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems -
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21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye
close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what ... in cases of strong wind, would unpeg clothes, sending two hours of work -
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I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese
kinda funny. When I was little, my mother would often say, in the ... mother, brother and I would go to the local grocery store to buy things ... the nightmarket in Nanjing. I would often hang out with my older cousin -
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10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.
Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you want in!” emails I've gotten over these past few months. My family eats -
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Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who
from every Hunt would be unreasonable, as I'll talk about in The gift of ... with your hobbies to understand them. Every instructor I've met in CMS ... with the Mystery Hunt, or puzzlehunts in general. In this post, I'll go -
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Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning
expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only -
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[Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25
: “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in ... ’m writing this in my dorm room overlooking the city of Boston. Ultimately, I ... ’m just as deserving as anyone else to be at MIT—after all I made it in -
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A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format
Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... and peaceful at night. There would be lots of bunnies. I'd be surrounded -
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How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge
all the additional wood I would need in February. Then it was March, and ... 'm glad I moved in with my friends, and let them convince me I would love to ... mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was