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50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS
spirit (but without the inspiration) of Ben's big lists, and following up -
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“You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...
That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever Pandora has queued up for us, sipping homemade sweet tea and tossing ideas -
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anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body
lot of [annotation note="the ones who showed up to class"]familiar faces ... should’ve. my photo of an astronomical object ended up just being a picture ... programs, but i was never ever made to feel like i messed up or that anything -
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Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students
growing up and with the increasing interconnectedness of our world, it’s now ... those ads pop up and still learn the same amount of information ... -algebra all the way up to Calculus III, with organized playlists for each -
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Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell
"] Gowning up to enter the cleanroom.[/caption] [image_grid images="86584 ... ended up performing surprisingly well. In particular, the Catsby solar -
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(Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time
that people once tried to renovate but eventually gave up on to let them ... ’ve grown up to make Alabama a better place. I won’t say that Alabama itself -
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[Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama
up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a ... rise up and out of the toxic shadow of her school and friend drama. It -
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All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off
structures is farther up my alley than telling you what’s in them. I’m sure ... shown up yet. To kill time, I walked across the dam once again and ... picks up from Kendall Square or by walking from MIT’s [annotation note -
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Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons
worried, stock up on frozen meals from Trader Joe’s for easy dining (you ... people from nearby dorms have reported getting too comfortable waking up 5 -
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Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable
), because from then on, something grew in my stomach and tied it up in ... . Up until that very last night, I kept countdowns going, I kept playing -
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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 ... pop-up windows on his desktop responded to his mouse clicks in a -
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50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year
. Once you’ve stayed up with someone till 7am, multiple times, just talking ... . Yes, take naps! But make sure you can wake up from them. That becomes more of a struggle as you move up class years. Old age dawns quickly in -
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A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.
running water (such as a river or spring). You can clean up the site (often ... , emptying or drying up every 5-10 years. Currently, all but one of the spring ... , and so he set up a couple meetings, inviting me to them. We heard about -
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MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )
to size up your competitors. As long as you steer carefully, Pass ... . --- That said, I dug up some classics of my MIT academic career that I want ... up my room, I found my very first 18.02 pset! It was so neat and nicely -
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The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V
about "pedestrian?" Often, their essays end up turning into a convoluted ... ..." "Someone that I looked up to is...because..." Be engaging, be active. Paint ... . Share with them what you really loved in high school, your ups and your -
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leaning in on choosing lives
choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... up in one week — whether to go to graduate school, or whether to accept ... graduate school, I have no idea if I’ll come up with good research ideas, let -
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Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)
ten years, but I’ve finally decided who I want to be when I grow up and ... , so I refused to specialize. I didn’t want to give up on any of my ... /ignoring up to that point. finally letting myself feel it freed me to make -
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trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry
, through a variety of poor decisions, ended up taking all of them on grades ... all my assignments, finished all my tests, and ended up doing well in ... might be interested in and ended up with a six-page document. Each set of -
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ten reflections on mit
pull up read receipts from conversations. Like this one: It’s funny to ... of leaving high school and growing up and maturing. Whether I’d have ... decision, I think) — but that summer I ended up in Boston anyways