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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with how hard, how crazily hard it is, to break into the global ... forward to right now is the Whirlwind of Metamorphosis book launch. It’s ... in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  head is also a weight to counter-balance the sword and make it more ... heat. how to taper, rivet, chisel, and assorted other skills. tapering is ... is done by setting a hot workpiece into a vise (or, if it's flat

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

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  . It's your chance to play whatever you want! Maybe this sounds ... , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I ... straight up told me that I was going to do it. I practiced hard at home and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s, no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  to navigate the world on his own before. It scared him too: And then ... I found it hard to breathe. In the play, Christopher pictures his dad ... supposed to be doing it. But what do you do when you don't know what to do

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make something for myself. I'm still not sure this is "good." But it's beginning ... monologue was incredibly long and circuitous. Cutting it down to 7 minutes was

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their ... selective colleges, is really tough. It's hard to know how to gauge your ... , that it is ripe for mockery (or can itself be used to degrade the self

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  message to its own channel, called the haiku log. The point is that it’s ... I retrained Robo-CJ to write haiku. This is coincidentally very ... Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual

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

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

  

  cancelled before it even started due to COVID-19, so that hope is effectively ... it’s worth it, even when it feels unnatural. There is a value to faking ... ="though i have some ideas"]what to do,[/annotation] and how to do it as

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  floor, whether it is forgiving someone, whether it is giving thanks to the ... Officer Sean, wrote a note yesterday on Facebook that moved me to tears. It ... newsfeed, my twitter, my Facebook, everything… hoping to see closure. And it

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  management is probably the most accurate word for it. But then I started to ... well as the next steps, since I'm sure it's going to only transform and ... to study has not been the smoothest or most straightforward road. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , either because it is unavailable to you, or because something can't be ... to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it ... . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  that since Dust is less attracted to children than it is to adults, it ... realize how well the movie is done - it’s very faithful to the book, which ... Immersive Media Production), but it was lotteried and it’s difficult to get

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  endeavors. She is proud of MIT and how it can provide real solutions to ... how we know it. The elegance of science is something to be admired. If ... Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what ... ). One that comes to mind is while replica plating. Replica plating is a ... uninhabited petri plate. It is important that you mash steadily. If you don

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  a bar? It is called the Muddy Charles Pub, and I had to look that up ... it's open to the whole (of age) MIT community, this is not a good place ... last post actually, but to recap: Professor Russ Tedrake’s goal is to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... changed from "what happens now?" to "what happens next?" and there is so, so ... pounding away, what happens next— Breathe. Let's start again. It is the end

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  thoughts at the end of each day. It’s gotten to the point where I walk across ... . Night. It’s gotten to the point where I believe I am developing tendonitis ... a lot to get down and little time to do it, I’ll write one long

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  . It is impossible to describe how quickly they pass. This is the only ... far. It will mean a lot to him/her now, and it will mean a lot to you in ten years when he/she shows it to you. Embrace the differences between

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006