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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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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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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 -
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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 ... essay is like, I share mine with you. You'll learn more about me in the ... where I am now. :D) Living in the graffiti-adorned projects of the Lower -
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Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!
enough. Then in 2009 I graduated and was never heard from again. Until now! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to ... that I didn't belong here. In my second semester, I struggled a lot with -
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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 ... , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which ... probably figured, "Hmm, definitely not mine. I’m lactose-intolerant."" Other -
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fish metaphors on queerness
." Just a few months ago, I would never have said that in public to someone ... up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was ... people in my class. In other words, I was a perfectly pitiable caricature -
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To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit
to know each college and choosing which one I thought I would fit in ... Here's a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the -
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WHY? for people who don't like "no"
know I would have done anything to get in, and still would. Depression ... point in keeping that rejected feeling alive. That and I really don't like ... 'm in my third year here at MIT, and I've grown up a lot. One of