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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing ... small deviation from 90 degrees at the corner leads to wildly inaccurate ... completely the correct dimension, but at the time [annotation note="which led

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

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  Classes are happening again and I am not ready. I am looking at the ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4 ... hop the fence and bark at other non-numbered dogs. Dog 4 needs to be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  things about yourself that you wouldn't normally discover sitting at home ... and in short, they were my first family at college. We had an incredible ... . (The retention rate at MIT is something like 97%, in case you were

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  each other. But I didn't know that he lived on floorpi! At the next Tech ... T. '02. At this point, the graph of connections was already getting ... at Zoom. Fall 2014 to Spring 2016: Josh S. '17. Josh lives in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Sublime Text, trying to hammer out code. Hours staring at my text editor ... don’t immediately start the day at 100%, nor am I able to do work up to ... to sleep at 3 and wake up at 11. My lunch and dinner times vary, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  recreational exploration."][/annotation] Bad Ideas is an annual tradition at MIT ... brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies ... = 11.514)[/caption] I arrived at 2 East when they had just reached the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  places at MIT and make new friends. Don’t stop at the first impression ... pricing, but be careful when looking at the pricing chart. For example, Mc ... than, say, Maseeh, which is at a higher pricing tier but will likely

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  apparatus is that if you spin a mother around in a circle with her head at the ... by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture ... beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the Milky

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  admissions process here at MIT, and we talk about it a lot. But what does it ... . Now obviously there are many factors at play here, but the trend is ... think and experential echo chambers. At that point, it's not a college as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  sustainingly intriguing enough major at MIT or elsewhere. b) If there is such a ... away from school, especially at dinners with family friends that ... to the general college applicant. At the same time, though, we aim to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  soooo much effort." At MIT, though, I've tried to remedy this countless ... attempt at problem set from this morning and feel very ashamed that Lauren ... -checking! 5:05 PM: 5.112 office hours at ESG with Mindy, the other chemistry TA

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  hila at tulak i feel more busy right now that i’ve been during my fall or ... like i am at my limit, that i have overcommitted this summer, and that ... if my body is being pulled apart in different directions. yet at the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  mascot of this year's Hunt. Look at them: As Eric notes, we've seen the ... -minute walk, but the night was nice and I didn't mind at all. Hunt proper Friday ... and talking. We were at a pretty relaxed pace—not only was it the

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

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  applications to MIT, or off at a different school just enjoying the blogs, these ... for me. I think back to who I was ten years ago, at just 12 years old, memory a little worn away by time. I look at these years with incredible

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ,[/annotation] at least from the experiences of others that I've read up on: one ... the world through cuisine.[/annotation] Although, back at my middle ... dejected, like I was the odd one out at the lunch table. Like, I understand

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  you're in-game 24/7. On weekdays I usually entered game at around 7 or 8 PM and stayed until 1 or 2 AM, and on weekends I entered at around 3 or ... props are fun. I was reluctant to get robes at first, but some generous

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  feel like looking at the actual thing. And like many things, different ... actually seeing a banana. But it's not at all similar to looking at a banana ... and work here. My mother was a bank teller, at the time, although she

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , and that kept me up for at least two weeks in advance worrying about it ... possible, but it would take a greater man than I, or at least one with fewer ... couch, it would be at perfect armrest height. Its width would be exactly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  usually at the end of the semester, occasionally mid-semester for half ... do when Life’s Coming At You FAST"]little bit of planning.[/annotation] Here at MIT, there is a system in place called Excused Absences, or, an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... have become a big believer in visuals. Look at this, and ask yourself ... student looked at the coins in alarm. I continued my little improv act

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011