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

  

  significantly. The tail was usually [annotation note="cold as in below 460 °C ... up to about 3200 °C. I clamped my sword in a vise and asked someone to

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

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

  

  -country road trip later I found myself (lost) in Washington, D.C. asking ... Benedictine hostel, the college was refounded in 1542. C.S. Lewis studied here

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  blogger alum Elizabeth C. '13. She created the web series Science Out Loud ...  why clothespins are called C47s. Most of the time, though, I felt silly asking (or

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  cw: death (after the horizontal line) I remember the moment that the East Campus renovation announcement email hit our inboxes. I was a freshman. Covid pods⁠01 you got up to…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Elizabeth C. ‘13 asked me if I wanted to write an open letter on the topic. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  As promised, an awesome guest entry – written by the wonderful Stephanie Lin. Read on! <3, Hamsika — My name is Stephanie, but mostly I go by stephlin, steph or…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  are where it's at. Also, it's really, really tough to get a C in a HASS

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  major, you haven't found it. c) College education adds to your confusion

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  that system but I didn’t. I liked physics C for itself but I also liked ... failing, that I was on track for a C (which I would hide behind P/NR), but ... , and I mostly read and did not feel challenged. Chem and Physics C were

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo9elE7Ij-c One night, in the middle of my time away from MIT, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  Jamie C. '19 and I (among others) had once bought the materials to build a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  hanging on anymore. I also realized that it was REALLY COLD. Like, -5°C cold

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  effort, just in case I end up being a borderline case of C-. But I also

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  and not them and that’s all. Not because I’m not doing A, B, C and I can

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  person who feels like they have to be prepared for Situation A, B, C, and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  Leading our transfer admissions program is one of the greatest joys of my work at MIT. Each year, we welcome a small group of transfer students to the Institute, and…

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it. (250 words…

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  . My friend and current president of Chinese Students Club, Jessica W

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  -room-assignment process within East Campus after 1970. From Doug W. '74, also chiming in on

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  longer, and not all that warm. W11 is usually the Religious Activities

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014