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Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food
In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... . One original recipe I mangled to come up with mine. It would probably be ... . Pumpkin Soup I used this recipe. Mushroom Soup This recipe was -
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[Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them
in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international student orientation, I (along with all the other internationals) ate in the -
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Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python
felt in class. If I was bored, I would mess around with colors and ... , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer -
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My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.
Waterstones and bought I think five more. My favorites would be Lud-in ... writing retreat in Sheepwash, Devonshire where I would be interning. We took ... me to come home. I was in the middle of nowhere, I protested. I would -
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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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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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My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally
college career, I’m spending my summer working in [annotation note ... enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an ... ], and I often go together. We bob around in the water for a bit, clamber -
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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 -
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what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"
I would buy all of our produce from Haymarket as the prices here are ... too intensely right now.[/annotation] So I thought it would be fun to ... 're released? yeahhh"]Yesterday,[/annotation] I woke up around noon in my dorm -
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Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends
math on all the equipment I was buying and wondering if it would be worth ... anachronistic conceit. I love that, as Alyssa Keiko once wrote in an influential ... idea Sabrina blogged about in the past too. I've lifted 3-4 days a week -
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Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success
't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I ... into class with that single objective, but I came out wiser in other ways -
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Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT
’re not using it. One evening I was chilling with some friends in the ... . Sometimes I leave my laptop alone (in its waterproof sleeve) on a table in a ... .com, so you use the right words in your essays and Facebook posts. I like to -
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College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!
what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... sure to keep you warm in the winter, because here is something I knew but didn't really understand at your age: BOSTON IS COLD. I would also -
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Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT
I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought I would. I grew up in small towns in Vermont and New Hampshire, and -
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sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child
possibility. Often, I would walk along the same street, music tucked in my ears ... elite higher education. In The New Republic, he wrote, “I taught many ... moment’s notice.” In retrospect, it’s a cynical take—in college, I’ve had