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

  

  I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3 ... ="attachment_84027" align="aligncenter" width="225"] dragon horns for a different ... ; split the bar — ½ for the blade, ½ for the tail I cut it with a bandsaw

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

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this ... ! This class isn't for "dumb" students at all, it is quite literally a ... 's 2 options for this: 6.100A / 6.100B are 2 coding classes that fill

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  weekend was what I think the blogs created for people much sooner, a ... here everything that was going on in my life for a couple years--thinking and then writing down your thoughts is such a great habit, for so many

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but ... let awkwardness be a barrier to being aware or being informed, for our ... you yourself are not ready for a committed relationship, or any

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another ... Yee A friend of mine actually substituted the cap out entirely for a ... for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  only a sleeping bag (good for retreats or sleepovers) and had their ... 't need one for a while. When you need one, though, you will NEED ONE. So be ... won't be doing laundry for a few weeks, though, so you can wait to get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  that lay the groundwork for the challenges ahead.  A few things that I ... generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  being the right fit for me. Fit is an experience and a quality that varies ... there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the ... along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a ... application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , fairly rugged mountain - together. …We are emphatically not looking for a batch of identical perfect climbers; we are looking for a richly varied ... ) Instructor who, after I received a lowest-in-class grade for a presentation

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  my new favorite spot to study for future years. Applying randomly to a ... 's standing only on thin air, he's negating. In improv, when you deny a ... was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  night prefrosh were here for FPOPs. One night, [annotation note="a ... I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very ... . . . perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers ... 3 seems pretty cool.” I guess for most people, it’s not such a hard ... simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we believe that every engineer has a great idea within them. We had a Hackathon last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  year, I started changing my mind a lot more, started looking for new ... for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a ... forms a stable foundation for future classes. I think the effects of a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  schedule have yielded a reasonable amount of free time for me to explore some ... these for a class I took spring semester, CMS.840 (Literature and Film). I ... /minor/major, so I wound up not getting in. I spent a few days scrambling around for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  for fifteen years, goodbye. Then, I got on a plane and came to Boston, a city that at the time I couldn’t point out on a map.  I am so guilty for ... some friends. We stood in line for hours next to a sixteen year old who

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge."]Last week[/annotation] I got back [annotation note="how the process for the ... Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  , observing in a local high school classroom, interviewing for cool jobs ... like Tungsten is, it's spread out as a gas. For electric current to flow ... and current, for the lamp, are really weird. Even if you put a high

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009