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  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  Technical Skills At MIT (or in school in general), it can be easy to focus on ... figured out quickly; others were difficult and painful to learn. I ... these lessons can be guideposts that allow you to learn, enjoy yourself

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  was using decided it wanted to go into early retirement, and snapped off ... Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for any new language, and ... ok, fine, it doesn't apply to admissions blogs

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... life story in smooth beats. it felt like i was saying what he wanted to ... . losing interest in a hobby you used to be passionate about, with things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  undergrads and found out that people tended to use certain frameworks for ... people tended to use about their majors and the people in their majors ... So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  , then using a punch to flatten the tab of the bottle opener. This one was set opposite a skull, which I made while learning how to use chisels ... didn't make this one long enough to have proper leverage, so it only

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

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  what it used to be:​ the space allocated to your critter is limited, and ... some kind of bird. (What a shame; it was just getting used to swimming ... developed increased bodily elasticity that allows it to dip in the middle

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches ... kill yourself with homework if you really want to try and emulate what it ... they could make a supercomputer using nothing but soda cans, hairspray, 3

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to ... . ‘18 It is 5 am. You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem. You scramble to find a pencil. You can no longer remember the answer

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT ... or complicated than a screwdriver, so I didn't know how to use power ... 'll be better at that after 6.002) and solder. I can use a drill press, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  major, you haven't found it. c) College education adds to your confusion ... have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it ... to add something useful or intriguing to the team, from a wonderful

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  best as I can remember, it was three cups water to one cup barley for the ... fourth floor. We have a beautiful view, and three large windows to watch it ... that I can’t always control the things that matter to me. This year I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so I had a vague notion of how it would work. The main idea was to use ... vast array of advanced (and expensive) machinery used to control and ... , so naturally, the MIT.nano staff want students to get excited about it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very ... such a small thing to notice, but it triggered a cascade of thoughts in ... .806 office hours, it's my turn to be hopelessly confused. I ask questions that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  what you choose to do, it seems like you can’t go wrong.” I blinked ... , we can make it a purse instead!” *** Now I'll be off to enjoy my last ... -frosh actually believe that it’s going to be as fun and happy as that weekend, but

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

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being ... sticking with it, however half-heartedly, seemed safer than committing to ... reaction, though it may not necessarily be strong enough to prevent the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , always cut it out. (iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active ... this is not intended to be a "model essay" (I think the ending can use ... narrative -> point -> how it connects to me. In fact, this is what I use

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  happen. Better news: everything is going to be OK. Best news: you can ... ’s face it - you aren’t going to. So, to distract from the impending ... hike somewhere new or nature-like. It doesn’t have to be far, as long as

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . Or both. Please make it the former, and do whatever you can to prevent ... valued here, but it can and will be hard to remember that sometimes ... . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  because you have an external pressure to do them. It is useful for me to ... campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021