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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  ."]Putzen,[/annotation]this is what you get. I carefully brought all the wood to our new apartment ... get to make it yours. I designed the table so that if put next to my ... the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... was hard to deny that MIT does in fact wipe the hard drives of your high ... you'll excuse me, I need to debug my Faulkner MATLAB script before I get

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

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me ... Afterward, I had 3 hours to clean my room, pack 2 weeks of clothes, and get

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  get to the point where I am now -- where the mirrors I look into are ... people get the chance to speak, I guess? Like, bisexual erasure is real ... , meant everything to me. *by “saying those words” I obviously mean

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  to take a math assessment. This essentially assess your skills and ... on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and ... .100L. You have to decide this switch by the end of the very first week

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  .424, information theory. The other seminar topics we get to choose from are real ... , and my third topic was Hilbert’s third problem, which we’ll get to know ... been scared were going to judge me. (If you’re reading this, thank you so

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• 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 ... commands one by one via an arduino, but when we tried to send commands from the raspberry pi to the arduino, the serial communication kept getting

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

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  away, unwilling to try to understand a dish of something new. Eventually ... somewhere new and starting fresh that enables people to be more open-minded. I ... your mouth to trigger even more pain receptors), ice (which somewhat

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• 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 ... want to read this. And then there’s the bigger scope—trying to get the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... Boston; I've loved exploring the city with new eyes informed by a different ... 's time for me to try something new occupationally. Recognizing slumps and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it yourself, too. Take a step back, and while reading your essay, try to answer ... trying to get across, then you need to fix something. If you don’t like the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  inspired to write this by an MIT confessions post, where someone complained ... do not want to be limited by exclusivity. Some people prefer to ... attention to what their friends (or your friends) say, as often it can be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated ... lot of my friends also came out to me. By the time I graduated high ... something to define yourself other than your intelligence." This was a worry

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your ... procedure, and that the good person makes a decision by trying to rationally ... the end of the semester I found it hard to get myself out of bed in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  /scanner to me. It's being renovated right now, and I really hope I'll get to see it new and improved sometime soon. East Campus #Wa101: It hurt to ... to leave it. Future me, if you're reading this, I hope that you miss

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  going to be ducks, and the poster was to get people in the MIT community ... classes, they have to get approved, any materials have to be acquired ... by, you talk to them even more about teaching, because you know them so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  Apple. Fall 2000 to Spring 2001: Jeanne S. '01. Jeanne lives in New York ... hanging a bicycle using the fridge as a prop to get it up in the air." They ... Conner, Macgregor's suites are lettered from A to J, New House houses are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  ), that PDF application gets seen by many, many eyes, from the time it gets ... like for you to live your everyday life, and how much your teachers and ... a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  are truly lucky to have Grimson as your chancellor, and I, like everyone ... -ish form of art: yeah, I'd say any man who can get hackers to pull a hack ... buzzing with some exciting new information. Prof. Grimson, head of the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011