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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

  

  Pad Mini - I do a fair amount of review-level work on an iPad while sitting ... to make a long story short, my senior year, I decided to start a ... changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online

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

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  most of the work I had to do, putting myself in a pretty good spot when ... to keep at it, trying to run four days a week and do miscellaneous free ... following it. Even in a perfect world where I do conform to the rules of my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• 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…

  

  ethic is a product of your own doing and your background isn't. And while ... October 28th. Thanks a lot!) At around 1:30 AM on Tuesday, October 16th ... days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• 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…

  

  Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However ... you should do this week in 3 easy steps (results not guaranteed, though ... UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Do We Have Snot?" (hosted by Elizabeth C. '13), "Why Can We Regrow A ... Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have ... exploration. Armed with an all-powerful MBTA Pass (with unlimited trips for a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  unremarkable Monday morning. I had just come off a pair of flights totalling twelve hours and spanning a full calendar day. I was more than 9 ... doing here? That was two years ago. In retrospect, that was just how I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT ... week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... like a whale lunge feeding']missed them,[/annotation] here’s an index of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was ... about, starting with the depression. (Angelina G. recently wrote a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... building something awesome. Some people do it through UROPs. Some people do it through clubs. Some people do it through hackathons. Hackathons are

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• 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

  

  21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  The presentation team is doing much better.  We've unified on a ... styles.  While we still have a lot of rehearsal to do, we're ... (on a real stall), mockup review, final alpha prototype on stage.  

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  autonomy companies in the US work with the US military/DoD in some way, a ... want to focus on making next year. To summarize my thoughts in a sentence, I would say that this was a year of trying new mediums and materials

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  physically tired from the last week, that was a sign that I shouldn't do any ... describe our process, I often do so as "incredibly inefficient in a way that ... , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  could do about it. Now, there are a lot of things that you can influence ... Fun fact: when George Washington was a young Virginian, his driving ... attempts, he was denied a commission in the service: not, Washington fancied

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating ... themselves (and are all probably making way more money than I do, since I'm in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a ... application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  . They do deliver —  for free! —  to campus right now, via a partnership ... does Daily Table do all this? Well, a Harvard Business School case study ... I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
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  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3.096: Architectural Ironwork, a class which not only counts as both 2-A credit and HASS ... hours considerably. And I made a dragon sword! First we had some lessons

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023