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  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  tuned me even more to the subtleties of what makes a good TA, though I ... : being brilliant in a subject does, by no means, translate to being a good ... It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  you to possibly understand the molecular mechanism by which it resects ... education is to learn as much as possible. 2) Make all of your figures before ... little errors or large mistakes in reasoning. Try to make a large

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the ... last week, and I’m still behind on work. I’m trying to take it day by day ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  come by and cheer me up by making fun of how I dance to Fergie*. I ... chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  have to take three lab courses that will make you cry. But if you're Chem ... professor wants you to take all your data and make 50 more spreadsheets out of ... means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  slightly shift into a parallelogram. We did our best to combat this by ... and attach them to the components below. This made it possible to make ... I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make ... negligence w/r/t basic testing, not to mention the logistical curdles posed by ... from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  an opening to introduce the Jim Mar Test. Used by Mar to evaluate ... motivated by the finish line. It's about making it through, and meanwhile ... by an inbred desire to "succeed," in the vaguest possible sense of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  to make a long story short, my senior year, I decided to start a ... . Anything also make it into your bags/pockets/fanny packs? (I’m not here to ... Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  MIT, you get to make the choice not only where you live but who you live ... write what everyone brought because I don't want to make you jealous. But ... floors - from Burton 1 to Burton 5, and from Conner 2 to Conner 5 (Conner 1

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Institute affairs, make policy recommendations to serve social goals, and, yes ... , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... across the country to join them in protests, including several school

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  taught by a specific person. I trust that there were clubs you wanted to ... ’ve been rejected and your life is over. To make them happen, wherever you go ... , beat them down, and not allow yourself to be defined by the school you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... , which would make some in the audience gasp ("She got into MIT with those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  kind of situation (aka any kind of situation) is to make lots of plans ... Afeefah for being able to make the leap!) This can be super hard -- like ... As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  to some extent -- you’ll be influenced by circumstance and will make ... , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... make choices and zoom in, and there’s this whole world again.  To sketch

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  does a really good job of trying to make sure that first years aren ... : I'm still ready to apply. But it makes it less scary. Less mysterious ... Song: Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne train coming. Before MIT, I had

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  first-floor hallway, to make a linear, multicolored, psychedelic display ... -counting-crew had counted to ten-thousand, and sent word to the cookie-making team ... I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  before I left the US, I LEARNED how to make bubble tea, out of frustration ... lost my high Taiwanese standards for bubble tea =p) I hope to be making ... Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  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 while you do it to make a square"]rectangle,[/annotation] and then drag to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , however, I caught up with my cousins and by default that means going to bed ... call them regularly. I am working on making it a weekly practice to have ... them to make that a reality takes a lot of energy and thinking for me

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021