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  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  post. Additional thanks to my mother for more Chinese-language editing ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

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

  

  [/caption] I started looking for inspiration and was pleased to find that while ... , which is the temperature needed for iron to turn red"]cold[/annotation] by ... blade needed to be for the balance point to be 2-3”.  However, my

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

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  's more rigorous majors, Aero/Astro, and now works for NASA. Goes to show ... of the case that was important for me to remember. Also, Jordan (from ... to work for a school where I can honestly say that. There's a lot more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your ... for group psetting, it's okay to want to work alone. Maybe you work ... might be able to find funding for your travels. Take advantage of your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  going to go out just before CPW, but that got canceled, so… Anyway, here ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... campus. These parts are defined by roads. Everything to the west of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters, I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... crowd. I know that this is difficult to reconcile for many students (and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  decided to move to the east coast for reasons I'll get into later."] the ... ?t=5756 -- When I got to the airport for my first ever flight, I ... outline of what to expect when we arrived: how to check in, where to go for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for ... , decide whether or not you'd like to apply here for school). Since applying to college is an important process for many people, and I'm not quite

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... , I'm also deeply sarcastic; it's naturally easier for me to play the ... character traits made it difficult for me not to negate. It's easy, and

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

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so ... , and decide to make quick pasta for dinner with Phyo, another TA and '10 ... walking later," to my second-grade phase of "Why learn to tie my shoes now

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  token, we do not admit students who are unqualified for admission to MIT ... attending MIT. We are not going to admit anyone, for any reason, who doesn ... who apply to MIT every year are qualified for admittance, by which I

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

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  it's a little tricky to know what to do with it. Especially since for ... major, you haven't found it. c) College education adds to your confusion ... have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  over four years ago, for example, he told me that he wanted to be a ... ’ll move to Germany for a one-year Fulbright at the Max Planck Institute for ... and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  for someone. there is enough positive work for you to do until you find ... to sit my butt down on her linoleum floor for a few hours to help her ... surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... pressure for you to do so. I don’t mean to say that you should make ... preparing for the future. The number of decisions you have to make as an

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure ... decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... for me to adjust to: Struggling to find people with my background. As

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned ... have a penchant for running around, introducing myself to professors, and ... 38 I wanted to take this fall, and gave up. I had room for four. This

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... archives to produce a strew of incisively insightful oldies for your perusal ... strategy. For the first week of classes, you're allowed to add classes as

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... notice him. And then for Shakespeare to actually send the book…” She ... ask for it take the initiative to reach out for them.

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