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  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , we begin with one of the most important questions in sailing: how do ... 't schedule appointments with me while i was in california. something about ... life story in smooth beats. it felt like i was saying what he wanted to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
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  [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 ... year was the length of the posts we would raise. In the past we raised ... half actually screwing the sheets in. I expected plywood flooring to take

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  ’re not using it. One evening I was chilling with some friends in the ... . Sometimes I leave my laptop alone (in its waterproof sleeve) on a table in a ... . Sleepyti.me tells you when and how much to sleep so that you feel rested in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  't overstate how important I think housing is in making CPW work. During our ... earliest thing I've seen in the Tech that could be considered an admitted ... documentation, at least not in the places I looked at. Only passing mentions in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  told him how grateful I was. In response, he sent the following meme to ... 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

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  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 / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I ... into class with that single objective, but I came out wiser in other ways

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought I would. I grew up in small towns in Vermont and New Hampshire, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
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  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 ... , in the random and subjective order I thought of them/was told about them. Note #1: I have of course not worked all of the following jobs in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  covers topics in Calc I-III, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra and Differential ... channel was one of the reasons I loved biology back in high school)   ... ’s History Description: Thee, and I mean thee, YouTube channel to help you in

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  possibility. Often, I would walk along the same street, music tucked in my ears ... Tumblr: “We would commiserate with each other about how high school felt ... elite higher education. In The New Republic, he wrote, “I taught many

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... sure to keep you warm in the winter, because here is something I knew but didn't really understand at your age: BOSTON IS COLD. I would also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  ways I can get there, how long each would take, and when I would need to ... -campus from this point on, i'll mostly be referring to living in not mit ... lease. The Good vs The Bad How do you know if living off-campus would be

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
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  demons on depression

  

  was, about how serious mental illness was, about how maybe I would feel ... pulling down the mental lever of how much I liked myself, and in the worst ... yours? To be truly happy, then. How would I know what that felt like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  . I’ve been converted to Messenger, so I guess he won in the end.)  We ... % sure he didn’t realize I existed in [annotation note="wow i am being ... Next Forum Games, a precursor to dormspam-the-game, in 14.05. I promise

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  enough. Then in 2009 I graduated and was never heard from again. Until now! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to ... some of my old entries- like the very first one.  How did I introduce

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  how MIT was the best school in the world and that I would certainly ... they were going on and on about how cool it would be if I got in, and ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . I never really knew how blogging would affect my experience at MIT and ... !!!) When I was applying to MIT, I got something in the mail. The website was ... December 30th and got in my first fight with my mom about how I was

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  to know each college and choosing which one I thought I would fit in ... . Going to the IOI, I would always be reminded about how much time the NOI.PH staff spent on training us, and how it would be a waste if I didn’t do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
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  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  immediately. I would go home in the middle of the day because I was on the verge ... the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... ;   Sometime in early November, I found myself in the waiting room at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017