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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  copious amounts of work. Some hobbies didn’t stick (trampoline dodgeball and skating are two notable ones) but some DID stick … and with an abundance of ... art. You stitch little x’s onto a perforated piece of cloth using a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The word meaning "the closest approach of an orbiting ... floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... variants - and countless others - are all just versions of the same question

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  interim comfort of "spring" gone all too quickly. I, however, love summer, for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  ’re just kids. our jokes are a mix of violence and bathroom humor and we ... making stone-cold mistakes about all of them. we’re still growing up. whenever i hear variations on the theme of “i was torn into a million pieces

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words out of me is starting to feel like making myself vomit when there ... thesis first ;) so I'll just provide a brief update of what I've been up to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  express themselves. Below you'll find accounts of six very different rooms ... a team of hair and makeup artists, as well as relaxing in their personal trailers parked outside of their rooms. No, actually I just ran

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  undergrad institution with one of those friends back in high school and ... obsession with astrology. Scientifically speaking, there are tons of reasons ... would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew with together (bet you guessed that). One of the primary reasons I chose

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  ahead into the '06, I offer this quote from one of my favorite writers ... one will get hurt." (By "no one," she meant me.) For all of you who call the "Nance Effect" a home of sorts, thank you for your continued

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  the incoming Class of 2013, I offer an introductory documentation of ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  ’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do ... my interests, without the burden of commitments I wasn’t totally ... required a lot of trial and error. In order to figure out what could go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  was a spark, an extra degree of freedom, a young, harmonious vitality ... brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... . Toward the end of September I became noticeably stressed out. I stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... a temple of science.” Ending of First Light by Richard Preston My thesis defense was at 9:30am over Zoom, with a committee of six professors

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve ... project in itself) so we took some of the patterns from our interviews and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back ... recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide, a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design: designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling. Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into ... -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life ... through MIT. I've destroyed and created things because of MIT. My entire

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  institution. College is a place where you meet all sorts of people from all ... . It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks ... communities, I often am asked something along the lines of the following

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011