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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  soon I was feeling bad for feeling bad about feeling bad due to feeling ... knows or art for art's sake. If you want to run a Hunt in-person, you have ... logistics are too large for only the spoiled students to handle everything. A

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  , others take a few weeks of incremental progress. I forgot to account for ... principles: I wanted to compensate artists for their time. I had no idea ... use generative AI or whatever. Even more strongly, I wanted each card to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a ... . There's even a word for the small droplets that fall through an open ... dry, but not quite rain. Tagalog does not have a word for this kind of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
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  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch ... ?). But then when you pop up and think back to just a few months or weeks ... ....very soon..." One of many lessons I've learned is that waiting for things to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned ... have a penchant for running around, introducing myself to professors, and ... hours giving me a crash course in the linear algebra one needs to know for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ), Next Sing, to name a few. [annotation note="i was also a desk worker for ... inside and outside the club, including when i went to new hampshire for a ... make things a lot harder for others, who then have to pick up the slack

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

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ways for exploring ideas. It’s not cheap to have such a big focus ... amount of time relative to the effort it takes to generate a quick Solid ... especially important for a product that absolutely needs to be reliable

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  them to make that a reality takes a lot of energy and thinking for me ... personalities. How to customize my practice for each trainee requires a lot of ... at a point where I have limited energy for folks who want to challenge

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  need one more [annotation note="art class"]HASS-A[/annotation] to ... is to optimize a tennis-ball-sized creature through a series of ... refusal to learn how to do drawing on a computer."]Day 1: Web

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not ... melt a plat for me, I’ve got to bring my own. Charging Cable Nest - I ... to make a long story short, my senior year, I decided to start a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick ... be confused with the homonymous dorm. this is instead referring to a ... convenient for those living in [annotation note='now referring to the dorm

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
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  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  close to Edgware Road, a street that has been nicknamed Little Cairo ... reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I ... of my friends know, I love airports – I have half a mind to spend

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major ... alive and like a human being part of society to try and pass this last ... I don’t even know what to ask. I know I need to give them a heads up

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
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  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  tools and to design a project with a sculptural element. I was also ... I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3 ... to make 5 bottle openers, since I already had a few from last semester

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... grown, or so I damn well hope.  # I went to a Q&A for the 2025s, and ... voluminous, but somewhere inside I know that it is a means to an end, a tool I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  group who all wanted to help build. We didn’t have enough tools for all of ... I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a ... first got to the office, our information sessions even showcased a picture

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  -turning Rush shirts for a while. I don't want to make the Admissions Blogs all ... has stuck with MIT for the last 65 years, and has led to a rough ... bravado the dorm likes to put on for fun when we act as a unit: you'll see

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  to cook, or contract histoplasmosis while exploring a cave. Looking ... a hard one for me – from MIT Marching Band to my service fraternity ... can fall into the trap of thinking that your success is due solely to a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out ... to have a system that's working for me now and impressing myself with ... here and quadruple-major, put your nose to grindstone, and crank out a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  prizes to give away to our participants. MIT students will do a lot for ... sight.” It didn't work. Once we had a winner for Game 1, we decided to ask ... [reasoning] described above, it would be rational for him/her to guess a number

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020