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  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  and slammed it against the anvil to get the two pieces to separate ... , which is the temperature needed for iron to turn red"]cold[/annotation] by ... forge. Generally you more often get burned not by red-hot pieces, which

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted ... always hours when it is impossible for me to work. And these are the hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get ... tunnels. Be confused when following the mysterious signs lead you to nowhere

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  , because then you'll get to hear the professor talk about the syllabus and ... you get to see the syllabi for all of the classes you're enrolled in ... .01 Physics or 18.01 Calculus. Getting at least one technical GIR out of the way

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10 ... ?" We agonized and fantasized over getting The Big Envelope (or in Colin ... exhausted. The days leading up to decisions were sickeningly brutal and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  Class Year I forgot to add class year as an option on my form, and by the ... ) You get to take class from the woman who discovered the fusiform face ... , you get to see the night sky in a different way. Through the telescope

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  primary bottleneck with build because it requires a lot of hands to get the ... fort structure. It took about a week to get the components of the second ... parallelize multiple groups of prefrosh working at the same time to get those

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  shapes and colors and shadows, and I get to see, in real-time, what the ... like: what's the nicest way to get the names of the winning team? My ... , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  exhausting routine. At the very least, take a walk. Get to know the community ... think: all the advice in the world couldn't persuade stubborn me to take ... all this, if you fail to learn and change accordingly. So here I am, the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  ?). The smog is believed to have been caused by the volcanic event, but has ...  critter react to captivity? My critter was carried from the forest to the desert by ... distribute the swallowed critter to each subunit as determined by its

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Modern urban design The theory of cosmic inflation, developed by ... pioneer, and the second woman to graduate from MIT Robert Noyce '53 ... by William Hewlett '36 The Executive MBA program at Sloan The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• 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 ... head-to-head, and in this example, the boat and the wind were in opposite

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  have done to help you get to where you are, not only by telling them so ... it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance ... analysis is a big part of trying to process the outcome of a journey that a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  much harder to get up to the surface, and that's really inefficient ... 'll still make mistakes. Given that, you might as well act boldly to get the ... function of how far you want every dollar that you spend to go. To get my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  Jones: There's only one way to get into MIT, and it's the hard way. What ... to be said, but for now I'm going to get back to the reading... ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  learned that the cast members were told not to eliminate anyone but just get ... and went out to the deck to get churros instead. So much to say, I was ... so glad I got to take part in an MIT tradition that I’ll get for the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week. Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your ... picture): The most recommended place to cry on campus was the Cheney Room

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , interesting. I get to stand in people jams in stairwells and shudder at the ... . Forever. I get to stride proudly down the well-polished hallways with my ... fit into any social category nor wonder about image. I get keys to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  suggested by their major or by the choices they made. Major choice seems to ... people tended to use about their majors and the people in their majors ... string represents one student's major, and represents the answers to six

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015