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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  all the additional wood I would need in February. Then it was March, and ... possible, but it would take a greater man than I, or at least one with fewer ... when I put it together, despite all of that, something would still go

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  't get close to guessing how long the website would last. Consider another ... buildings, like how I talked about the ESP website and Building 20. I first ... for the ESP website, 17 years later? Partly because of how expensive it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  occurence that it's not until I'm away from campus that it really sinks in how ... That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  , would register up to four votes per second for MIT. I smell another poll ... and, well -- I read this before I came to MIT and thought it was one of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  , storytelling, [annotation note='I don’t talk about how the Hunt’s tech has gotten ... from every Hunt would be unreasonable, as I'll talk about in The gift of ... processes. It's incredible how MIT supports all this in the first place, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  right was grilled chicken tenderloins. My goal was to decide which I would ... capitalism would treat the symptoms without curing the underlying disease, I ... followup question about where or what I would like to eat, brightly rattling

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  would never really want a permanent tattoo, but I love the temporary ones ... , I buy squishables. They bring me so much joy!! My friend and I also ... how it tastes because eating playdough is a little icky. I really like

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  in small chunks. I wrote up a small, convenient website for easy access ... Representative at the station. I buy another one-day pass. CJ: Press F for Alan ... ’t seem that bad, since it would be spread out over seven runs. I did not

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  mother, brother and I would go to the local grocery store to buy things ... kinda funny. When I was little, my mother would often say, in the ... Habesha, we are Habesha!” When I started going to school, the teacher would

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , even if i looked forward to it for weeks. three. "how do you sail, then ... , looking up would waste time; that was the lesson he wanted us to learn. "you have to adjust based on how the wind is blowing," said john. "and so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  would be lol. I wove a continuous strand of webbing through the edges of ... I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing

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

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  laptops that MIT recommends: Macs, Dells, and Thinkpads. I’ve seen MIT students with all variety of these and more. I've had all three. My first ... 31. ThinkPads are very durable. I’ve dropped them from desk height. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other ... I used to. The good news is you don't have to be an OnlyFans model

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  websites I remember frequenting, searching through posts for any glimpse into who I was. Unfortunately, some of these websites aren’t around any more ... I would otherwise never talk to again. I spent most of my early days

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  " or "I was surprised at how friendly people were." Note the lack of ... admitted students. It's unclear how much the discussion I mentioned above ... meetings with the faculty. Now, I know how easily gossip can get amplified

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  math on all the equipment I was buying and wondering if it would be worth ... !"]strenuous[/annotation] exercise isn't just how I stay fit: it's how I stay sane. I've found I need ... told him how grateful I was. In response, he sent the following meme to

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

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... a zillion clubs (it would be indecent to say just how many) and agonized over choosing a major. I was worried that making decisions would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  didn't really understand at your age: BOSTON IS COLD. I would also ... every moment of sleep you get! - as a quick side note, I would suggest ... want to cook is up to you. I suggest learning how because it can be a lot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I would. I grew up in small towns in Vermont and New Hampshire, and ... those opportunity buys are clutch. For example: I like salad. I can grow ... than I could grow, at a price lower than I would have to pay to grow it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... something incredibly basic, but because I saw an opportunity that people talk

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010