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My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.
that dream in the sky that I think I wanted more than other dreams in the ... amazing happened. The website crashed. ZOMG THE SITE CRASHED If I recall ... essay is like, I share mine with you. You'll learn more about me in the -
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You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things
wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer ... whether to create the website in Perl or Python. There's a bit of discussion ... 't get close to guessing how long the website would last. Consider another -
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A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs
] 2013 In 2013, I made a Twitter account. I cut my hair, and started buying ... websites I remember frequenting, searching through posts for any glimpse into who I was. Unfortunately, some of these websites aren’t around any more -
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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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Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it
Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex ... right was grilled chicken tenderloins. My goal was to decide which I would ... capitalism would treat the symptoms without curing the underlying disease, I -
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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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How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.
this, but I would probably start here, or by getting in touch with ... Me: "Can I please list 'can raise each eyebrow independently' in the ... ’re looking for a UROP in the first place (I trust it’s something other than “I -
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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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The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.
, would register up to four votes per second for MIT. I smell another poll ... ! --------------------------------------------------------------- It's not just the MIT node... I'm in Ohio and I'm getting the same ... , actually, here's the backstory, then the story. Back in July 2006 there was -
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[joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center
in small chunks. I wrote up a small, convenient website for easy access ... overview of the plan will suffice: our journey would start in Mattapan ... note="CJ: I’m gonna write things in 24-hour time for this post. Alan is -
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Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.
about it among my peers and self on the Internet and in real life. I study ... tattoos, too. I find it extremely grounding to sit in my room with a book of ... would never really want a permanent tattoo, but I love the temporary ones -
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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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The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake
earliest thing I've seen in the Tech that could be considered an admitted ... documentation, at least not in the places I looked at. Only passing mentions in ... then back up to 415 in 1998. I also don't know where to fit this in, but -
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Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.
not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... agonized over choosing a major. I was worried that making decisions would ... hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue -
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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