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  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... . losing interest in a hobby you used to be passionate about, with things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• 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?

  

  smoking. Not trying to get in the building.” You look down. You’re wearing a ... . The concrete rushes up to meet you. You awake with a start in your own ... professor’s name has changed to a frowning face. You slip in your pset and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  to tap xylem and phloem in the tree. The web secretes enzymes and a ... ; Day 2: Pocket In transitioning from a Web to a Pocket, the critter has ... confers the capability to move randomly in search of a spot to anchor on the

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

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of ... section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  , you get to see the night sky in a different way. Through the telescope ... ) I took Russian I in IAP, and I really loved getting a chance to spend ... . Not only did I get hands-on experiences as a first year, I got to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... to cut them. Place the potato (or equivalent) and garlic cloves in a ... Cook barley in a pot on the stove. Make according to store directions. As

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  East Campus was ticking to an end, that I'm stuck in my room shorting ... same table in a restaurant. Listening to relatives drunkenly recall ... molding was littered with a lot of "um I don't know how to say this in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... electricity, no motors. It's engineered to simply "fall" down a ramp in a ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  I linked to above, seriously, it's short and important) prompted a desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  . “You can get a fee waiver once you give us a copy of your parent’s 1040 ... , that you’re applying to M.I.T. and yet you can’t fill out a form…” I don ... for those who were just curious as to what a decent college application

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... his parents, to highlight the isolation one feels in returning to a ... believed in me thought I wasn’t supposed to be a scientist. I am twenty

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track of my assignments. I used a Google Chrome extension called Draftback to ... revisions). Date reindexing made it possible to visualize a weekly pattern in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  that he didn't get those two scores together -- the time he got a 710 in ... requires passion, and, luckily, you get to define passion on your own terms. ... , it was me). He's had a UROP in the Aerospace Controls Laboratory since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  snap on your way to a party, ending in a hug when heading home, ending in ... from top to bottom. His body had become a canvas in which he could ... themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  in your room- except to sneak out late at night in a trenchcoat to turn in your problem sets- and not say a single word of english to anyone ... only the parts of the material necessary to hand in a completed

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  to make a long story short, my senior year, I decided to start a company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note ... to get in a class sometimes got in the way of me focusing on the ... compared to the classes in my major that i would take later on. but i saw a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  welcomed, and the freshmen you met in your last year and were able to mentor ... to it in darker times. Words of caution: beware of connecting your ... ). Online dating apps are a great way to expand your social circle beyond the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  +/Hulu/Netflix if you're trying to take a study break kitchen with snacks free tea ... serve as perfect mirrors when it gets dark. dancers used to use this as a ... 'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023