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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  and didn't recognize her. I realize that the class took up a shelf in my heart, even if it wasn't a good idea, and it's hard to transition to the empty space. I'm worried that there's also a wild contrast between the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go ... common of a name and coming to MIT confirmed those suspicions; there are at ... . But the exciting part is remembering that you have the power to choose

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  sure how to represent the enormous beast that is MIT, I figured I'd start ... of the demonstration pieces was a two-tined fork, and I decided to try and tackle that for a starter project. However, I decided to try for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... end, as I said, is that I left. The means to that end are worth talking ... is what happened to me: I started out as the girl who got a reasonable

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be ... . There's even a word for the small droplets that fall through an open ... something that comes and goes. In English, maybe the closest idea is "this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... . "you have to adjust based on how the wind is blowing," said john. "and so ... that. there was a region called the no-sail zone, so you couldn't point

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  the credits; there's a teaser of a scene that's worth watching ... On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million ... . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... hour to eat, go to the gym and take a fabulous shower, run an errand or ... multiple times and i promised i would write up a longer answer. the question

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  ; Yes, that is a Ford Model T, hanging from the roof. The car, which ... . Needless to say, the car is now a total wreck. ...Oh. Well then ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... to do is build a community, and an admissions machine cannot produce a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the ... MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  table, and the supports would block access to that space. So instead I ... autopilot while describing in detail how to stain a block of wood, and that I ... tools, and had the guts to try and complete a big and beautiful project. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own ... : there was no build step that took a few minutes to run, no script that I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  a bar? It is called the Muddy Charles Pub, and I had to look that up ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated ... ’ve been able to really be a part of the lab. I attend meetings and reading

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

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  through it. Remember that your application is your only voice to the ... , this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another ... that perfectly depict who you are. The thing is, after all this, you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how ... am, about a day after we discovered that the fuse was blown and, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high ... 's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and ... involves Einstein, but the other - and the first angle I'll try - is to tell

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  , which is also the older one: there's never been a point at which ... see the full-size photo.) That photo is incredible for a lot of ... the '93 dormitories began to play the fire hoses up and down the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  see in this moment, the door that didn’t open is just *one* door. It may seem like this door is *the* door. We want to tell you that it is ... say the least. The reality is that the college application process is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018