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  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  their majors by visualizing it on a very large piece of plywood. Each ... through to associate ourselves by department number (visualized below). I ... suggested by their major or by the choices they made. Major choice seems to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  brainstorm some ideas. Empowered by a set of Tinker Toys, we created this very ... 'd never been to the space before, but I was impressed by how funky the space was. Plus, they had this cool beaver light. Our team got to work by

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  off-by-one error on your application: But even if you didn’t discover ... decisions, let’s cover some procrastination tips, brought to you by Someone ... it’s peaceful. I whiled away many pre-decision hours by taking my dog

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  is access, and the standards are specified by the state legislature. If ... topic of MIT admissions, much has been said by me, and others, about our ... by accident. It is intentional. The faculty and the rest of the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  have been putting my radical thinking into practice by regularly ... journalist wrote a compelling story, which got picked up by a number of other ... process that could be replicated by virtually anyone. Don’t get me wrong. I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  ever a Bad Idea. Bad Ideas is a weekend festival thrown by East Campus ... the snow screwing two-by-fours together, other people were working on ... baking of 10^4 cookies. In fact, they overshot: by the time the cookie

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  groomsman. Laura '06 and Tulasi '06 performed the readings, which were by ... be having our reception. Our first dance was to "Everything I Do" by ... with Daedalus, a human-powered airplane that was built and flown by a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the ... toward Shelob, who was hanging by his string from my bedframe. He unhooked ... pants, folded them carefully, and got up by my chair. He looked around the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... slightly shift into a parallelogram. We did our best to combat this by ... call fort units. They are supported by four 4x4 posts at each corner, and

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

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

  

  forge. Generally you more often get burned not by red-hot pieces, which are obviously hot, but by cooling black metal that still holds a lot of ... is done by setting a hot workpiece into a vise (or, if it's flat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  undergraduates. Students must be supported by their alma mater -- in this case, by ... and interview process. Last year 970 applicants were endorsed by their ... Linn Hobbs. Though tempted by many to begin work at the State Department

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  provide first aid and basic medical help). By chance, I recognized the kerb ... took until November for us to start hanging out after class. By the time spring semester started, we were friends -- and by the time we went home in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  ="Two -- Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Three Musketeers by ... . Every place I stopped, I’d spend a day or two, and by the time I left I ... , asked what race I was, and showed me a skinned bull hanging by its feet in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus. These parts are defined by roads. Everything to the west of ... ="495"] by john phelan, cc-by 3.0[/caption] That’s Building 10. Building ... refers to those buildings by number. If you focus on the Buildings 1

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  my laptop! And most of it won’t be affected by my grade! I smirked at ... ’m having mixed feelings about. On one hand, it’s miserable to be consumed by ... - encrypting and decrypting them by hand. The work isn’t a chore; it’s a

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

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  else but a river. Most forward reactions are opposed by a reverse ... always exist. Sometimes, you progress by learning some lessons and using them. Sometimes, you later regress by forgetting what you knew. It

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  than just dorms in a hall, and also I totally just ruined the joke by ... at a corner of the table, not distrubed by the lack of attention attributed by tradition but quietly confident that it would be soon devoured

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  started grad school yet, but I surprised myself by knowing the answer ... by exploring a common cultural narrative that mostly fits: that of the ... released by an external force, with no self-knowledge or desires of their own

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  , brought by hundreds of yellow schoolbuses, will gather on a field near the ... were organized by a mixed metaphor — fluids move in waves, but cattle ... I had been matched to a research group led by an intellectual hero of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to a temple of science.” Ending of First Light by Richard Preston My ... ’ll be a postdoc at UC Berkeley, supported by a Miller Research Fellowship

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020