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  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  , it was like 12 AM, and I was going to get a B in the class no matter ... this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster ... conversation. Or something like that." And then I get real sad, so I go back to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  ;   Afeefah: 100% good health. I’ve been trying to get into a ... that thing where if someone I’m talking to is in a bad mood, I by default ... grad student!) at MIT. So naturally, we had to do a blog post together

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  you get something like this to happen? Final exams and projects are ... control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or even physically impossible. Think: getting a really bad case of mono

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... and culture: we hold our students to a high standard and give them a ... fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  Park lends itself to cross stitching so a lot of my early work was South Park themed. I began by working on a HUGE South Park mural.   ... size and infrastructure required. When I needed to get out and actually

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

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  .. I need to get back on the grind 🏃 5 - a ceramic fountain that melted ... programs that I wanted, and it was, by all means, a blow to my creative ... want to focus on making next year. To summarize my thoughts in a sentence

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a ... often find themselves with six to seven classes a semester, get straight ... it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  : designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling ... way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a ... , where you'll click and drag to make a planar [annotation note="hold shift

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

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to ... assigned to them by another member of Conner 2. I can't remember all of the ... to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to ... their school, it'll be a process you only get to go through once, and it ... watch freshmen do MIT and I've learned a lot about parents just by

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  difficult schools to get into and you have achieved something that is by no ... incredible strides, made great sacrifices, and worked so, so hard to get here ... . I get it. I know it. I was there. I thought I'd make something to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  exam, you can still expect to get ~20% by blindly guessing, but on a MIT ... to get me into medical schools, but also means that I always get a ... Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  -English guide are inspired by How To Get Around MIT, the student-produced handbook ... some extent, to my parents, it's like I'm talking a foreign language ... from putting a firetruck on the Great Dome to subtly sabotaging the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  somehow managed not to get them. Recently I took the SATs as well, which I ... has become painfully clear that I stand next to no chance of getting in. I now realize that I am probably going to go a lame local college and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not get in or will / will not be accepted because they are a woman / a ... succeeded somewhere else. Everybody loses. And I hate to lose. By the same

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  activities in Zoom rooms. It's a lot of fun, and getting to meet and talk to so ... REXtcomm. I get to meet a good set of frosh, and they are quite cool, but I keep ... life. I meet a lot of frosh I haven't met before, and we get to present

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  to be in a startup, like a new burgeoning start-up that’s trying to get ... teammates to make a presentation, look-alike model, and two working models ... for a group photo and moved short people to the front. "We need Concert

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  if you're closed off. If you need to get a job, find something that ... 't get caught. Life is too short to stick with a course of study that you ... drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . Another seemingly spontaneous addition to our lab’s gadget arsenal was a 3

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  D students/post-docs so I’m again the youngin’. I’ve been able to get to know a ... Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012