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• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  the not-so-intact sweep needs to be replaced. This is done by taking out ... power drill. Apparently one way to get out a stripped screw is to dremel a ... use a flathead screwdriver to get the screw out. The rationale is that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  , and full of vigor, began to climb. However, soon he was defeated by the ... learning from his past mistakes, he was able to get up nearly halfway, when ... truly wise will recognize that there are alternative ways to get to the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  with it and assented to its claims. 5. Notes of a Native Son by James ... wide in the sun; oaks in forests grow tall and thin to get what they can. It is eerie to see an open-grown oak surrounded and shadowed by firs

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  freestyle though, because sometimes you manage to get a line, or a verse, or a ... post. I just had a laptop, phone, and the microphone on some earbuds to ... , ranging from absolute flaming garbage to (at least in your opinion) pretty

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  haven't been able to build up strength, but I feel I'll get it by mid next ... resolutions I couldn't accomplish due to the pandemic, but since the world has adapted since then, I was able to do them! I'll be including the 2020

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  MIT almost exclusively refer to their majors by number unless they are ... 'm doing the IB course with HL Math, Chem ang Bio. Say if I get admitted to ... sounds silly, but I'm first afraid that if I try to get a position, no one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  , and I finished. Now I get to go home for ten days. I get to prepare for the feeling of yet another fresh start. I get to feel whatever this ... does somehow. Song: Burned Out by dodie. The camera cuts once more to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  what you want to research. And then, perhaps completely by accident, you ... and I will probably get to work with another language - R, a statistical ... chocolate science). So if you've ever wanted a chance to get some in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  hairline fractures that race across your windshield when it gets struck by a ... longer under my control. Week four was when things started to get hairy ... feelings that were washing over me in waves. Instead of getting straight to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  , curated by the bloggers, to provide motivational music for you, dear reader ... . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  got a chance to really sit down and get to know each other; I learned ... really lovely getting to share that experience with the visiting students ... home. One way I got to do this was by hosting a student in my dorm

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  idea in itself. It would take a period of getting used to, but we know ... collectively get together today to create the English language from scratch, then ... by gender. It just wouldn’t seem relevant enough to warrant entirely

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  -dish pizza in Chicago while listening to a special performance by the MIT ... Swinging by the Big Apple this weekend? Come to one of our largest admitted ... I hope you’re all getting excited for Campus Preview Weekend coming

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  need to remember. (I solve this problem by buying anything and everything ... 5-8 for dinner. If you eat lunch at noon or 1, you're going to get hungry again before 7. You want to eat something before practice to get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  year. It is now my last chance to share these freshman thoughts with you ... comprehend my state of mind back then. I want to have a conversation with that ... math major. I had a clear life plan to start in the first semester

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  other doors than just the one on pi day you are waiting to open.   If you end up feeling limited by your circumstances, get creative ... monsters in our closet ready to jump out at us. If you’re feeling like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  knew that. I need to get back to it - more updates when there's something ... kickoff meeting. By 1PM the committee was looking at its first applications ... eerie, as I've never seen that before. But it's good to know that MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  gather for our meeting to get us prepared to read your thousands of ... Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read ... each have read this weekend, getting on the same page as far as what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I try to think of how I'm feeling, all I get is static in response ... stand by my decision to exit the relationship. But if I'm the one that did ... school to get into a good high school and get good placements in classes. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  headed over to room 26-100 to get in line for a sneak preview of the new ... , pro wrestling announcer Jim "J.R." Ross spoke at a colloquium hosted by ... advance screening of Blades of Glory by the Lecture Series Committee (LSC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007