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How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.
womb." Which of these people will be able to land an undergraduate ... . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP ... hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...
I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about -
Blog / About Decisions
To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!
might be used. Let me be frank. Any serious applicant to MIT has been ... opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won ... it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance -
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How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.
this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I ... accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed -
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How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge
for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my ... left with some extra wood stain, varnish, and desire to build things. So ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video
me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire
come together to make MIT one epic battle against the elements. I considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with “flying close to the sun:” although I might’ve been overambitious this -
Blog / Academics & Research
how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.
So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with ... is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music ... people to come talk to us about their majors. We spoke with fifteen MIT -
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A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.
’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week. Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your -
Blog / Admissions
Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons
This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL ... tips to figure out where you’ll fit best: Ask multiple residents about -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming
freshman. Covid [annotation note="you got up to five other people who you could interact with normally; you had to remain socially distanced from ... taught me how to stand up for myself, hold others accountable, and take -
Blog / Academics & Research
I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese
them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China, we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in the Jiangsu province area. I remember being able to speak Shanghainese -
Blog / About Decisions
To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit
about why I decided to commit to MIT. I tried to keep it as close as possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some details. It’s the fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the -
Blog / About Decisions
An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)
student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing against major news platforms and don’t want to belittle stories that ... applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever -
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HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096
: how to not burn yourself Reach toward hot things (or potentially hot ... heat. how to taper, rivet, chisel, and assorted other skills. tapering is ... -ended nails that hold pieces of metal together. They are very hard to forge -
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How to date at an American college Things we never talk about
sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real ... physically abusive relationships. It is also, uhh, going to be a really long -
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Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality
. Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get people to ask questions about your silly hats. Take pictures of yourself -
Blog / Advice
how to sail against the wind on tacking
, to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... head-to-head, and in this example, the boat and the wind were in opposite
