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  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  to get by with just the knife and the tweezers, but when I went to cut ... creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a ... . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  wasn't hard). It gives you a chance to finally get those time ... here and quadruple-major, put your nose to grindstone, and crank out a ... , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later ... old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... the bus at the next stop #nailedit   Attempting to take a ... that scare me, including trying to get to know new people. Marjorie

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... surrounded by this deluge of words and stories had something to do with my ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned ... not having to specialize by becoming a science writer 5) the summer ... Quammen and Richard Preston, who aren't scientists by training but have a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... freshmen and score lots of free food, but I had a class taught by Pulitzer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  , although party themes often run to the creative -- at some parties, you get a ... , and Fridays are a lot less crazy. This is by design -- I like smushing a ... , thanks to Vassko, has a more complicated answer. For those of you just

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... ’d the test go?” instead of “what’d you get?” and you never have to give a ... W.013, a CI-HW which I didn’t want to take but I didn’t get a high

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  : being brilliant in a subject does, by no means, translate to being a good ... up there because I'd attended a couple other sections and found his to ... tuned me even more to the subtleties of what makes a good TA, though I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  AeroAstro. I figured I was fascinated enough by planes and rockets to get ... /aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four ... gets distracted by airplanes flying overhead, and gave Professor Darmofal

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  gets tough. A few of them that I particularly looked up to talked about ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... something with a pile of Legos that seemed to reach my knees. Knowing no one

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8:00 meeting. The chance to eat a real bagel was a treat, and a must for me every

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  slightly shift into a parallelogram. We did our best to combat this by ... we needed to do to get a second floor unit in place. In recent memory ... primary bottleneck with build because it requires a lot of hands to get the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  to listen; they did not brush me off by telling me that dropping a ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... legs back to the bus station. I had earned the certificate by presenting

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a ... work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note ... that i wanted to get into but never really put a lot of time into. here ... didn’t feel as much as a desire to get highly involved. ESP ran programs

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  , it also involved a fantastic team. I was lucky enough to get the ... months to even get acclimated to a company like that, so I don’t see myself ... live close to one another! And I get to make helicopters for a living. We

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014