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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 credit for me, but also accelerated my blacksmithing knowledge and practice

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

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  : I’ve spent a long time at MIT thinking about education, both through

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  years thinking about THAT?!” (That’s fair.) But I’ve been amazed and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  , I can imagine a black, female, mechanical engineer--because I’ve seen

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  coffee?” “Mm, sorry sir, we’ve only got espresso I’m afraid. But, here

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  in front of you where they’ve all gone. His eyes go round with fear

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  valid points. This CPW, I've been putting in more effort into meeting

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  much to people who've never been exposed to MIT. To MIT students, those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  and Buddhist practices, and gave me some of the best chocolate I’ve ever ... , the next attractive grungy person’s litany of places that they’ve been

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  .[/annotation] I should add that I’ve taken all of one electronics class during a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  , I involuntarily screamed, which, for the record, I don't think I've

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  phrases “once I’ve got money” or “once I have time”. I can assure you that I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  of this place, so the reaction to closing the place we've called home

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  footnotes; we’ve done our best to show our work in them

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  . For this post, I've written up 22 anecdotes from my time at tEp. (Read

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  , biology, and mathematics—and I’ve also had to take courses in physics and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  long it’s been. If you’ve ever visited MIT, you’ll know this entrance at ... friends have noticed that I’ve been “disappearing”, but frankly, I don ... I’ve been slaving for. There’s an incredible sense of accomplishment

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  Side note: Am I the only blogger who still uses a paper planner? Am I the only one in my programming class who takes notes on paper, not on a…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  /Cambridge area, but I usually forget the poster exists until I've done something ... shouldn't!) Now that I've had too much fun for the weekend (wait, that ... power being out for two weeks), along with 176 other girls. (I've no idea

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  worries though, I've transcribed here every question someone asked me ... the norm, but that's the beauty of it. There is no norm. I've seen ... Calculus, Physics, Chem, Biology etc. I've been working hard to try and get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008