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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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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. '25
  • May 9, 2023
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of ... resources out there. Whether it be costs, school funding, or even awareness of ... start the new year.  But I also want to note that while it might be

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
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  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  you have before. [embed]http://youtu.be/JJMYZUh1PRQ[/embed] A week ago ... different. I am of the opinion that there should be a latency between what we ... that are relatively unprocessed. I would be doing readers a disservice to

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 1, 2022
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  being able to channel all of my aggression and anger out of my body and into the floor on which I'm standing. I love being able to make progress ... be okay with that. I have to attend to the weather and the wind and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  now trapped other pollutants/gases being produced by local industry ... days, your critter has been captured by another living being, and taken 3 ... what it used to be:​ the space allocated to your critter is limited, and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020