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  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.

  

  online by a previous lecturer, and it was not long after I discovered them ... to stay warm and cozy in my (over)heated room while it whistled and ... saving time, right? It made sense, of course, until you tried to account

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

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  needle and different colors of thread. I took an instant fancy to it. Why ... copyright violation. I sold a few South Park patterns but it never amounted to ... maybe I can continue streaming after CPW. And, if it all goes poorly, we

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words ... me would never change. It is impossible to write a blog detailing why ... innovate. It is not sufficient to just have book knowledge; MIT wants you to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  stellar explosions, staying up night after night to collect data before the ... psets and semesters. Suddenly it’s your job to define the problems and the ... worth struggling through, bearing in mind that it’s normal for it to be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  didn't make this one long enough to have proper leverage, so it only ... head is also a weight to counter-balance the sword and make it more ... and slammed it against the anvil to get the two pieces to separate

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

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... school is just a place; it's what you choose to do that matters, not where ... do to cope with it. Cry, scream, eat your feelings. But only for a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  same time, I think it's incredibly dishonest to hide behind a blanket ... and being admitted. A few months ago, it was revealed that he applied to ... response was “I wish my head was big enough to do this”. It didn’t take long

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  talk to every single sorority at least once. It was admittedly pretty ... so it’s not like you have to come early just to do recruitment ... bonding experience with my chapter, and it was super cool to be able to meet

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5ny5tMsxrs After we finished the movie, a friend of ours came to the ... my chapter at MIT. After that, I listened to the song over and over ... I watched the more I felt my desire to recreate it grow. It came to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like ... never thought I'd become committed to it. But though I hadn't ridden ... commuting bike. It set me back a few hundred dollars, but I like to think of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seak out ... little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then ... to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This . . . let

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... email explaining how my body wasn't listening when I told it we had to ... just for the day. After that, he had to move me back to my original

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria ... . I realized I needed to sleep, so I ate a little more, and made it back ... more times throughout my semesters at MIT, and I would learn to take it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  ’t have to tell me about that. I knew it. Hours spent fixated on a problem ... Requirements. I needed it to graduate. Another funny thing about classes at MIT ... problem your friend figured out in the time it took him to pee. You sit in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  be an example for others to do the same, even after it comes to an end ... school because of its arbitrarily bureaucratic hoops. To give you an idea ... time) to respond with "Stick it to the Man" when people asked what he

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  professors from my program -- it's considered rude to ask a graduate student ... 't really have lives outside of lab, but it's fun to pretend.) This year I ... emotionally invested in MIT athletic events, but it's great to be big and strong

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  , emotionally, and it's hard to balance with classes. I've gotten used to having ... , and I built a bookshelf with Cory to hold our disassembled Legos. After ... heart, even if it wasn't a good idea, and it's hard to transition to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you ... moment, after which it completely f--s you over. and my procrastination ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ! Suffice to say it wasn’t glamorous. They scheduled new hires for 6am - 2pm ... car, after several rounds of alarms. Drive to a park, set up my ... ’d look up a coffee shop and head there to write. After some hours

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

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  ’m just as deserving as anyone else to be at MIT—after all I made it in ... to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high ... it. Comparing that to my experiences in places such as New York City

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024