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  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  make it have a height, and thus, the cube is born. You can also input ... , where you'll click and drag to make a planar [annotation note="hold shift ... is the same. Now, let's say you have 50 of these cubes in a model, and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  switching/undeciding mean (My child is just as undecided.): a) There is no sustainingly intriguing enough major at MIT or elsewhere. b) If there is such a ... internationally, does not insist that you declare a major when you apply. This is a

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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  , which have a list of each of the teams. Not only can you read all the ... day was again a blur. The round I remember most distinctly is New You ... course." Or: "I can see that the CharlieCard is for scale, but is there

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

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  is MIT: why bother doing a thing if you're not gonna be super extra ... Office of the First Year, where you can learn (among other things) about ... 's "REX", or Residence Exploration, put on by students, where you can play D

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  you aren't in a place where you can watch the video with sound. I didn ... and figuring out how exactly you can make the world a better place. So ... nervous prefrosh. I hope you like it! If you're curious, here is the Ze

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  in the first semester is good. First, you're in P/NR; second, you get a ... that you are. As a proxy for having friends, there are the subject ... best way to know if you'll like a class is to take it. "Shopping" is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  . This is what my half of the room looked like. Ice Bear is still there. A ... socialize. Catching up. How are you doing? What’s it like there? And a lot of ... take a step, expecting there to be more staircase, when there’s nothing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  each pixel? There is such a joy in eyeballing where things should be ... you have a pretty good understanding of what is going on in general and ... there’s anything you don’t understand, a method or a term, immediately

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  to work for a school where I can honestly say that. There's a lot more ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last file I read. Yes, she had a sub-1400 SAT score, but you should have seen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  're going to implode. MIT is a lot; there's a lot to us. But you have four ... hopefully help you proceed and answer a big question: Where do we go from here ... hardest things you undergo. There'll be a lot of changes and challenges and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  's the best advice anyone can give to you. Your application is full ... place where you get to say "hey, I'm a human being, let me ... that is fine. But there's a big difference between those little

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  is. (See here and here for other relevant reading.) There is a lot to ... orange. But not all is the same. My hair is growing out. I just bought a ... “oh it’s good at science” and “college is a really long way away”. I was

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  doritos—but make peace with myself if there is a week or month where i ... ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... plenty of rigorous work. someone asked me if there would be at least a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  been before, with a woman you can’t even claim to really know ... ,[/annotation] this school is literally a movie scene can't wait till college when I ... . Especially when that person is you. All these posts lie on a road that lead to

  • 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

  

  held virtually this year, and there's a large CPW Discord server where ... , you all have a wrong idea of what affirmative action really is." It is ... weekend of the CPW is fascinating, and you can read the PDF here. The top

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  DAVE: there are a lot of times where i dont feel like im at all living up ... talk about his first semester, and what he experienced. Sure, you can ... U’s admitted student weekend. There’s a movie called Winter Carnival

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  be happy before a relationship, you can be happy after one. This is one ... that you know. How do you determine if someone is not interested in a ... you can do is be clear and sincere. I applaud anyone who tries to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  institution is like. College is a place where you'll be for the next 4-6 years ... that applying to college is a time where you need to focus on yourself ... research and find schools where you'll be happy than just applying to a

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  four years at MIT, but the experiences you can have abroad are also once-in-a ... problem sets, a semester spent reflecting about how an experience made you feel, and debriefing and debating academic concepts is quite a change. My

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  same school, unless there is a recruited athlete, legacy or some other ... get the idea. If you don’t, there’s probably nothing else that I can say. ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011