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Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun
accomplish in life possibly-maybe-who knows). I want to make cool things and do -
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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 ... about your life. If you feel like there is a small possibility that you -
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Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek
My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus, including the Great Dome and Lobby 7,… -
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-Conner Apple Bake: Win as much as $500 for your floor, the most prize money ever ... around 4:00pm and eating will commence. $500 in prize money will be ... mention prizes for the funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original, and best -
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[Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)
In 1870, MIT admitted its first woman: Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards.01 This was a “special case”, one-off situation that did not necessarily set precedent for admitting more women, hence why… -
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i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming
cw: death (after the horizontal line) I remember the moment that the East Campus renovation announcement email hit our inboxes. I was a freshman. Covid pods05 you got up to… -
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All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off
that bridges represent a central tenet of my life, at least my education-related life. However, my opinion surrounding these bridges in Boston is much ... ’ve crossed this bridge less than five times in my life (excluding the one or -
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some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…
answer to many more things in life than I would have expected: in your ... affected my life that month. That doesn't mean that I shouldn't have felt the -
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I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese
在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am most fluent in English, there are some added thoughts here that were not in the Chinese-language post, and… -
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Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds
This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk… -
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I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas
in my own life too. I live miles away from campus (which used to seem -
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Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success
. I'm talking about serious life lessons. Not all of them translate well ... for dear life to the pool's edge, but the inviting depth of the water -
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An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.
Somewhere along the way, the MIT campus picked up a distinctive, localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric American English. Multiple observers nowadays report that naturalized… -
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Admissions advice from someone who’s been there
living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... classes, is a basic part of MIT life (and frequently, so is non -
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everything i made this year (mostly)
like many parts of my life began to shift and settle into place, if only on the surface, and I’ve been thinking a lot about my career, work-life ... with people in that stage of life, and it was strangely comforting to -
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“You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students
follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience ... were you, and what were you up to? Gaurab: I lived most of my life in ... Zealand. I was really excited to experience what life outside of America was -
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Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself
your life. You always had so many dreams. I’ve said it in one way or ... but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.” Sartre ... ’ve been worrying your whole life. My therapist asked about my first memory -
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Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions
people I know from the different parts of my life. Kind of like a crossover event of my life. What’s one thing you’ve learned in the past month ... done for that version of me. And life moves on. What’s the last TV show -
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context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?
itself in different ways. I feel like I missed a critical period in my life ... about shelter or food. I essentially won life’s lottery when my mom moved ... or colleges. Life is not a race and there is room for everyone (I