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

  

  four study legs, made out of 4x4s, the classic EC loft pillar material. I ... shelf pieces together, I would connect them underneath with 2x2s. The only ... went with another set of 2x2s, parallel to the floor and connecting the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  together—a story that starts in the 1980s and ends today. There'll be actual ... enrollment among women and minorities through 80s, and rightly so—very few ... wrote in the 1984 Report, "the character of MIT’s student body is dictated

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

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  , and disabled good judgment, equivalent to about a full night’s sleep, or ... decisions degrades one’s ability to make further decisions. It’s why shopping

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

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  difficulty; but 5.112, for example, is harder than 5.111. GIR(s) - General Institute Requirement(s). Pronounced "gee-eye-our(s)." HASS - Humanities, Arts

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  asking what people’s favorite classes were. I received 130 responses ... classes but only 8 2020s responded to my survey and all with different ... approachable.  The labs tie-in the week’s lessons well, and you can see how each

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  time, it was CPW, and we had a big Discord going with all the 2024s, and ... Wilson S. '24 took pity upon me and decided to turn my sketch into actual

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

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

  

  , especially since the 2022s and 2023s are being experimented upon. Everyone in

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

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a week from 2021 adMITs, and I got into MIT three years and one week ago

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... friend.” I don’t say this to fault my classmates, it’s just the way things

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  . How’s 7:00 tonight? Trash, trash, trash. Yeah, well, I think you ... decorate, mostly, since it’s not like they have computers. That’d be

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

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  . Looking at my (eight different color-coded) Google Calendar(s), I notice now ... . This makes me feel old. It also makes me feel nostalgic. Chris S, who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  tactful than my sister’s words, who told me that if I went to MIT I would ... what field they would devote their life to because it’s all they’ve ever

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  Haslanger, Jennifer S. Light, Takako Aikawa, Justin Khoo, Athulya Aravind

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  reasons similar to M.B. ‘17’s ice cream: if I got in, she'd get hugs. If I ... dog didn't know what was going on but she was down to party anyway. S ... few more minutes. \o/ S.M. '19 It was Pi Day. I was sitting on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  to MIT’s Class of 2022 have asked us if their acceptance will be

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  person’s identity that they hadn’t expected to find; for others, however

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  anything but finite, as they continue throughout the course of one’s life

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  think it’s important to consider why people apply to MIT. My primary

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  get a long-term visa to the U.S. and the first question they asked him

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010