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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  stretched the length was actually longer than what we measured it to be. We ... people assumed that all of the 2x4s could just be taken and used for ... the step ends could be supported on top of them. Stairs have a lot of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I ... those will continue to be gatekept by the student body :)) I tried to find

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
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  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  . sheet metal can be cut and textured into leaves (or cacti, or, as a grad ... the two sides of a heart to be even is about as easy as herding cats ... and swords than to make the hilt be a dragon?   [caption id

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

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... things in vague pseudohaiku. Now where did the haiku come from? I should be ... over a thousand members, nine of which are bots, and one of them being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be ... valedictorian. I like to think that I deserved to be valedictorian; that I am ... got a 1900 on. I figured I was just being lazy, and could have gotten a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• 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.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... awful feeling, being behind in a class. An awful pattern even, because, it ... 't learned any of the material of the past 2 weeks, it would be a waste of time

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

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  exception of half a leg and an antenna. I figured it would be a waste of a ... be mildly gross, so viewer discretion is advised.   Basic Stats ... notorious for having a fast reproduction rate, spreading disease, being hard

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  the Jiangsu province area. I remember being able to speak Shanghainese ... , so I learned Shanghainese from being with her). When I first went to ... their parents’ culture, or wanted to be more  mainstream American. They

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  your advisor and sign off on the classes you'll be taking for the ... , establishing social groups and networking during your first year will be vital to ... . Be open to different possibilities, and use your first semester to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  there was quite a lot of phone calls being made (and being received) there ... chance to meet the alumni who will be doing their interview. Here I'll put ... activity, from writing on the school newspaper to being in student government

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  happen to be amazing). Monday and Wednesday nights are usually dedicated 5 ... ... I just don't happen to be close to a lot of guys in frats, plus some ... to be with school. I've heard some consternation recently about my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  tablecloths, or no tablecloths at all – but I can’t be sure. After you come back ... on out) that it’s going to be okay. Everyone likes to hear that. Some ... students returning from any type of leave, be it voluntary, medical, or

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  cases in advance, so we don’t know when this will be. However, decisions ... announces in advance which days it will be posting decisions (without specifying which cases will be decided that day). You can see a calendar of

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

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  school lunch table, I remember being confronted with [annotation note ... alone enjoy it. It was refreshing. Perhaps there's something about being somewhere new and starting fresh that enables people to be more open-minded. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  -junior year summer internships can be handy, especially if you liked the place ... , but you rebuild yourself to be even better. More and more over the years ... letter, and I’d rather be up front and self-inflict the blow before you do

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  beautiful blog post about being depressed and handling depression at MIT that ... being: face angled down, shoulders hunched up, body language that said ... have gaps in my memory from that time that will probably never be filled

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  of pain and guilt. Depression can be vastly different from person to ... my inner self. I have learned to be confident in my vulnerabilities. In ... with MIT’s fast pace. They are some of the strongest human beings I know

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  it gets so caught up in being "awesome" that it forgets about this ... just being 4 years of puzzle hunts and robotics competitions for the hell ... that I was a fraud; that I was not remotely good enough at my job to be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  making said visual aids. Teaching is a subtle art. Human beings are ... . - I’m not here specifically to be a teacher; I’m here to help out in the ... -year-old to be his nineteen-year-old friend's grandfather. Apparently, who your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  -life balance, creativity, and how different it is to work than to be a student ... -painted chipboard and is meant to be taken apart, overlaid on top of itself, and ... in x, y, z, and yaw. [embed]https://youtu.be/_LLspTuF1IU[/embed] We

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025