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

  

  the real planning began. I picked a name: How To Make Mediocre Furniture. I picked what we were going to make: a replacement for a makeshift ... make for my room. When I came across some[annotation note="MIT has a big

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

  ten reflections on mit

  

  that the only way to make it through here is by working with and ... time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... still the same. I’m still a grad student. Still trying to do research on

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  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 / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  air, as freshmen were trampled by upperclassmen rioting to reset the ... caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... sometimes take all day), neuroanatomy exams (shortly followed by a lecture on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  the surprise of many. After all, a writing team needs to make so many ... it seemed impossible for us to finish it by six. I felt that it was a ... , which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge

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

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  ’s shelters, and how this inspired her to start her organization. As a result ... own website and foundation, emphasize the narrative of homelessness by ... of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  tuning back out every once in a while to make sure I don't get hit by a car ... you live off campus is so variable, there's no way to make a universal ... , or if you want to arrive by a specific time. So, if I was trying to go

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  my smartpen*. You see, the plan was to make a pencast of the address ... President, and he says hi to you while you make a scene and draw the gazes of ... Obama's address. Needless to say, the MechE student who doesn't have a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  of a D9 organization. He grew up surrounded by [annotation note ... after she expressed her desire to join a sorority but was hesitant to join ... at MIT and was starting to accept that joining one wouldn’t be a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  indexed by a real number in the interval 0 <= x <= 1. The more ... : Professors' names will go to websites about them, not their email addresses ... saying, “I'm married to a lactose-intolerant person. She's otherwise very

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  lengths to advertise itself as a place not only of rigorous academics, but ... to and influence on campus life allowed a critical mass of students to ... physical culture, […] but it is to afford as well a place which shall be the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . ‘18 It is 5 am. You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem ... . You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem. You are in ... , stumbling to the bathroom. Your path is blocked by a herd of tetafrosh

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  to make 5 bottle openers, since I already had a few from last semester ... promised. I decided I wanted to make a sword. How better to combine dragons and swords than to make the hilt be a dragon?   [caption id

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

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  ’s vaguely about linguistics, even though my actual job is designing a website ... to our math olympiad summer camp, back at home, in a week. i made a digital whiteboard as a tiny personal project. by all measures, three ’Di

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  kind to myself remains a work in process. wave imagery inspired by ... 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
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  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  that could be a blog piece by itself. What I began to experience that ... engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy ... protein engineering and computational biology to try to understand how a

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special ... need to lift a pen and know your name to join a 100 clubs that will send

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  . By itself, this would NOT have been a good reason to apply. But in the ... impossible, but I think it makes it a little harder to step back in, especially ... statement a hell of a lot easier (though it will), or because this will make

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
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  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my ... more. A note to my future self, though: there will be reason to regret ... need to study harder!” no longer makes sense: you need to re-evaluate how

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

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  sense of agency in your life will make you happier. It is a lot harder to ... a boon—why must I have to make this decision? In another sense, though ... -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021