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

  

  things) slowly. Feel the heat rising from them. I move differently in the ... student in the class showed, into wavy table legs). we also learned how to cut fitted slots and holes into iron using only hand tools. chisel work

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  any deeper, I dremel a flathead slot in along the other axis of the ... Ep."]tΞp![/annotation] While work week in Greek life systems outside the MIT bubble might refer ... and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  for the spring. I was given a slot in the French 1 class and am pretty ... of several language classes is available in condensed form: three hours ... . http://web.mit.edu/fll/www/iap/ Classes are available in French, German

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT recruit athletes?

  MIT is one of the top Division III athletic programs in the country ... interested in playing varsity sports at MIT, you should contact the coach of ... contribution to MIT's varsity athletics, they may choose to advocate for you in
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  start-up focused on mobile money lending in Africa" Cirque du Soleil ... will be helpful. In anticipation of our 10-year reunion, I emailed all ... responded; I have listed all responses below in the order that the emails show

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  I'm taking a break from playing all the video games in this video ... , which I also wrote about. You upgrade a slot machine to make rent payments ... slot machine theme, there is no real-world money or microtransactions

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  gel thickening agent. I’ve been at MIT for a while: this is my sixth ... -day party before term starts when frosh find their home(s) at MIT, in every ... roof below—I know I must be in the right place. The first floor of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... frustrating, for I still haven’t found the optimal waiting spot on the platform ... stops and worlds apart. The most often cited difference is in the color

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  their friends are taking, work on psets together in virtual Zoom lounges, share resources, ask questions (and post memes) in a forum, and keep track ... pset problems! Spreading the word about announcements made in lecture

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  standardized version of Tagalog is Filipino, which in theory includes vocabulary from other Philippine languages, but in practice is more like a synonym for Tagalog. The words mentioned in the post are all Tagalog words, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’d already been into it. In January, I joined a Beyblade Forum I found online ... nothing in 2011, as I shifted my focus to Facebook and the forums. I focused ... things again. Some of those kids I met, way back, in the Beyblade forums or

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... research in general over the last few months. As a disclaimer, I don't speak for all fields - publishing in human-computer interaction probably works

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie ... up in Lagos, Nigeria and immigrates to the United States for university

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  ? Because the factors of admissions that can be readily apprehended in a forum ... to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact ... Confidential, specifically the MIT forum. Every summer, as students begin the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  with a focus on game development in Unity (Free Game Development Platform ... the best course of action, especially if your goal in doing so is to apply to a school like MIT. As Petey wonderfully notes in his infamous

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  balls into its 4 slot, meaning in order to even tie it would have to dump all of its balls in its own two slot. All of the possible numbers, 15-24, required at least 3 balls in the 4 slot, meaning unless their robot dumped

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  polycarbonate roof to keep the worst of the snow and ice off the platform. In a ... pernicious myth."]connection between body and mind[/annotation] to keep both in ... in a way that is measurable in a messy world that so often defies that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  founders posted on some forums I frequented - and being amazed by people who just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  continue processing our feelings in real time online on other platforms, but ... come back and blog for us—just like we did for the tenth blogiversary. In ... remain by Celena C. '12 Don’t forget to check in with yourself by Jenny X

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  great suggestions, but one in particular caught my attention, in response ... consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... this year's CPW. In the 9 years between these posts, there were dozens of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018