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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

  

  changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online ... in my own life too. I live miles away from campus (which used to seem ... maybe you just want to know what to heck it is. That’s why I numbered it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , which is the temperature needed for iron to turn red"]cold[/annotation] by ... heat. how to taper, rivet, chisel, and assorted other skills. tapering is ... student in the class showed, into wavy table legs). we also learned how to

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

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  full sentences. If I really need to think about it, I’ll write in Spanish ... account is themed around the proteins in gluten, which make me irreparably ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a ... worked so hard to include the world in that passion that Amtrak noticed and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  -related life. However, my opinion surrounding these bridges in Boston is much ... that somewhere in me is the power to analyze these bridges and tell you ... even worcester and providence in rhode island. colloquially, this is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  refusal to reflect on what is happening in my life, but it is impossible to ... happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... if my body is being pulled apart in different directions. yet at the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  sadness in the world ok my fourth crush is in the works so i need to get ... the haiku log combinatorics the haikubot is a workaround to post in the ... that the gay heart is now active in my chest the gay heart is a tool to

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

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  prioritize in that moment is to look after myself. It's so much easier saying ... feel good But because failing to do them is guaranteed to make us feel ... post more lighthearted content, but this is a topic that means a lot to

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  . Yet Caroline is now contemplating switching to Course 14, Michelle is in ... it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few ... life may take after coming to this curious place. 1. What is it like

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... end, as I said, is that I left. The means to that end are worth talking ... triggered the chemical switch in my brain to flip. There was the chemistry

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  and a huge campus. You need to be more intentional, unless they ... called me out and said man, you need to be careful because last semester ... definitely no longer wanting to explore as much. So I got closer to some. But

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats ... percent of the class in the chat! This makes sense to me; the easier the class, the less of a need there is for a group chat. The harder the class

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends ... at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  time in your lives when your only real responsibility is to learn. Try to ... journal in taking you back to your favorite moments. Take naps in the ... from you too - in fact, that's part of the reason they chose to be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  teach you to think about computation, and in the same way, MIT is not an ... began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  like I need to figure things out on my own. Most of the time in ... city I was moving to.[/annotation] I was scared. -- At one point in The ... I found it hard to breathe. In the play, Christopher pictures his dad

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  much more life to be lived outside of it. In that same vein, I know that ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... ’t begin to know exactly what those feelings are. But what I can do is share

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  enough introvert energy to spend a whole day in my room just reading ... Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go ... to “create myself”, even literally. Since “Jenny” is not on any of my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  . If you are not in a safe space, try to find one. Whether it is your ... day are not okay. When things get to be too much, it is really important ... this as many times as you can until you start to feel better and more in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• 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.

  

  is about learning to take care of yourself. Well, as much as I hate to ... mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007