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  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  the terrain diagram, many of the springs are at points of locally high ... I can say, at the end of the day, is that this project was just a ... If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  I'm sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa ... 's drinking water from a bottle of what was once "Cloudy Apple"* juice. *Yeah ... blog for MIT admissions while actually at MIT...) I write much more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  stick a master list of all my vlogs at the top of the page with some handy ... MIT-related requests (since showing generic life at MIT was one of my ... these videos back to "general life at MIT" instead of "Ceri R. talking out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That ... feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  effective. So, we should really be taking more advantage of that in robotics ... .832: Underactuated Robotics. Help I’m surrounded by grad students :O one of them ... complaining about a group of people that ruined the party they were coming from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... minutes after class, one of the Pre-Calc kids was at the board, while I sat ... teacher side of things: I go to bed at 10:30 and get up at 6:30. I improvise

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a ... bag on the sidewalk of the LA Convention Center at 0400 in the morning ... sings at the top of her lungs, and, yes, my daughter's happy going to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  feeling of accomplishing work. (Do I like the work, or do I just like the ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of Sublime Text, trying to hammer out code. Hours staring at my text editor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• 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 ... one floor or lounge of a dorm, and it will be your family. Here are some ... places at MIT and make new friends. Don’t stop at the first impression

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical ... the old city with musicians, artists, and sellers of trinkets galore. It

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  them from Mr. Neha constantly throughout the year. At the beginning of ... you'll need to either bring it home or store it at the end of the year ... functionality of a desktop with the portability of a laptop! Starting at $1999

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . So, instead of attaching each leg one at a time, and having the last ... whole thing together at once. I recruited some of my excellent roommates ... together! One of the best moments was right at the end. I had it all, it

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

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  usually at the end of the semester, occasionally mid-semester for half ... do when Life’s Coming At You FAST"]little bit of planning ... didn’t think of the class at all. I spent a lot of this time period

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  of algorithms (TAs are capped at two classes). TAing is hard ... behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... . The start of the semester was a long string of all-nighters. I came close, I

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

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'd show you my freshman year. I moved into one of the dorms at MIT thinking ... difficult math class at MIT), and a slew of other math courses. And to top it ... difficulties and coached me. I ended up pulling a B+ at the end of a semester and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  . Oh, boy did I learn about the importance of sleep. For me at least ... productive, and feel more satisfied and less frustrated at the end of the day ... Well, I'm 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... and turns red because of science I won’t get into. Now, this itself

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  ’re playing with your upper limits. A lot of people don’t rejected at all; they ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that ... a Game. There's plenty of other meaningful prose by other brilliant

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  . Running any of ESP's programs at our thousand student scale would be ... made of layers that change at different rates, from furniture that can ... published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  name of the sender; it was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it ... read a very old, very tattered copy of it a couple weeks back, which a ... the name of the author. Let’s call him (again, for privacy) William

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011