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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 ... hours considerably. And I made a dragon sword! First we had some lessons ... things) slowly. Feel the heat rising from them. I move differently in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... right place would be the one with the right "fit". I know by September

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  -buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay. When people ask me “how’s MIT?” I answer something like “exhausting and overwhelming, but fun.” I don’t think that’s a good enough answer to give justice to what I feel about MIT. Instead, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just happened here these past three months…but with pictures (because I like

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

  halloween down the infinite

  

  Happy [annotation note="so if you think about it i'm technically still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too ... published please and thank you"] (slightly belated) [/annotation] Halloween! I

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  you might wonder who on the other side reviews your application. I ... and advocate for students. We might be crusty, but I’d say we are warm ... about how our process works, but I’ll share a little bit about how our

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing ... awesome responses I got. Jenny R. ‘15 Eli [D. ‘15] and I painted our door ... warp and stitch them together). The class is super cool! I made a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  In the time I've been at MIT, we've had some interesting characters pass through the 'tute - Obama, Bill Gates, will.i.am, and Lady Gaga ... Engineering) have a discussion with our chancellor Eric Grimson, I packed up my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  fact in studying here, no matter what major you choose I can almost ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I ... on I think it's important to identify roughly two types of people here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... -preserved 82-year-old form. Especially because I really thought he was dead. But no! He's not dead! He's still alive and quipping things like, "So I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT for literal months now. Every time I start writing it I feel like I ... be interested! Before I came to MIT, I was often asked by my parents

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a ... community member. Here I'll take the perspective of a critic, or perhaps a scholar. I'm going to put [annotation note='CMS is Comparative Media Studies

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  you sail against the direction of the wind?" joseph, claire and i sat and traded glances. silence stretched among us as i thought about the question. "can you?" i asked. "the short answer," john replied, "is that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  many [annotation note="not me though, I am not sage"]sage upperclassmen ... have agency: own your decisions. What do I mean by that? I mean that at ... (GIRs) are one exception to this. personally, I think there is still

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  describe MIT as “drinking from the firehose.” So I guess the water and fire come together to make MIT one epic battle against the elements. I ... “flying close to the sun:” although I might’ve been overambitious this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... excitement and bubbliness, there's insecurity in comments like "I…have NO idea why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a ... right wall of the kitchen, is our fuse box:   Do you know about fuses? I did not know about fuses. I still don’t. You might notice that the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  banner says "Live at EC." EC is short for East Campus. I do not know if ... , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the ... on the stage, a girl changes into a dress and back into a t-shirt. I do

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... . When I was an undergrad, I UROPed til I dropped, participated in my dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007