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  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  of reminded me of being a stage manager, where your role is pretty much ... Out Loud is how fellow blogger Anastassia B. '16 made her awesome video ... sooo...) 3) Being a Production Assistant [FYI this bit is shamelessly

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
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  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  There is much hullabaloo around campus here lately as everyone is ... excitement, Prof. Grimson is a wonderful guy. He's incredibly fair and ... section. That's a lot of hassle for one student, and it would've been much

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and is not a substitute for professional advice. --- Every day we wake up ... post more lighthearted content, but this is a topic that means a lot to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  I thought I knew. I wondered who, and how, and why. A set of things ... is what happened to me: I started out as the girl who got a reasonable ... -feeling part of my brain had shut down. My advisor just passed me a huge box of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  . Following 2011’s attempt at a railroad permit, this is the second year of the ... gel thickening agent. I’ve been at MIT for a while: this is my sixth ... sense of the word. (I’ve heard that if CPW is like a tangerine, REX is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  that the box is unlocked and slightly ajar, and take a look inside. All ... ’ll find a place where the ephemeral is more real than the truth. That place ... the kitchen for a snack and everyone is there. “I should be asleep,” you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  to think that I have a much better attitude now. Regardless, I had opened Pandora’s box of indecisive musings… of “wait a second, there are ... “well, this is a problem that deserves attention” and tap into bountiful

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  Square, which is a much more reasonable name for a square than it is for a ... , who was also a floorpi resident, and how he did a speedrun through all ... Line’s SL3 route, which,[annotation note="there is so, so much MBTA lore

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I ... very familiar to a lot of people on campus simply because of how much he ... . Professors and PSets Thing? Yea that never ended. But all it takes is a few

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  that is fine. But there's a big difference between those little ... I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  punishment amount, players would enter how much to invest, be paired with a ... no one has a sense of how much they're worth. MM: Players choose an ... people but i do not remember this meeting at all. cpw is such a blur -p

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
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  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  they’re rocks on a riverbed. The memory of my dad teaching me how to ... summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  are eschatology and heuristic. I am looking up how much a wi-fi hotspot ... barking if Dog 1 or 2 starts barking. Dog 4 is a puppy that cannot be left ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
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  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... , if you ask me “Is there a group for students who are religiously ... . My point is, we love getting good questions and entry ideas- a lot of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
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  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  /angry bosses/lives lost if you push back a post. We post how ever much we want, pretty much whenever we want. But, being a blogger is competitive, dare I ... As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
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  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  I could get a measure of how much mass was in each part of the sword ... heat. how to taper, rivet, chisel, and assorted other skills. tapering is ... is done by setting a hot workpiece into a vise (or, if it's flat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... with joy and curiosity and energy, which, for me, is so much harder than ... am waiting on grad school decisions, which is feels a little more nerve

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  (remember, this is a kid who didn't know what an Allen key was or how to ... propelled by a sort of fanaticism much in the way that marathon runners are ... 't know what to do with our lives" is a common mantra among my high school

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  a stressful process, since there's so much competition vying for ... , maybe a dorm is a good place to stay for your time here. Many people stay ... , living off campus is a good option. Here is my list of pros and cons: The

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  . It's actually much nicer outside than I expected! Although it is a ... hosed now. My classes are all different, of course, and so much else is ... could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022