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

  

  ; split the bar — ½ for the blade, ½ for the tail I cut it with a bandsaw ... I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3 ... when you make the end of a bar thin and pointy. rivets are like double

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

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  applicant for a while, I was called into the room and led to the head of a ... to chill for a few hours until the call-backs. To distract myself, I ... Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  sense) At MIT, all freshmen have the option to apply for a "freshman ... Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for ... telling you about a steel fork? Well, at Lame-vard University, studying for

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

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  moment, of going to the Institute, and of caring for others. On a day ... me, and that you enjoy the read. ---------------------- It was a rare ... open, I lay on my bed—a strange feeling emerged. I didn't care for work

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  most beautiful places to visit in England for a reason! The charming town ... Hello guys! Sorry for the super duper long hiatus :( After my final ... :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of the semester and plan on doing a reflection sometime before finals ... the bus at the next stop #nailedit   Attempting to take a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this 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
• Blog / Events

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... birthday. I'm lame, I know. The firehose stops for no aging ritual, though) when the door behind me flung open with a bang and a hat was pulled onto

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... -evidently absurd. But in the pursuit of further conceptual clarity, let's talk a ... talk about merit in the admissions process, what we really mean, for the

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

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  ’re looking for a UROP in the first place (I trust it’s something other than “I ... subject for the lab, and during a break in the procedure, asked the woman ... comes. The MIT career office is a great, under-used (from what I hear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS 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

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

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural ... forms, it's a very subtle misattribution of traits based on the ontologies

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... (then) recently released new concept for the Iron Man comic series, a 15 ... the steadicam for the Lobby 7 footage. Lastly, we needed a cast

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... you're walking through campus and you see something a little out of the ... hallway. Other times it might be big, like a huge Scrabble board on the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  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 ... ="107410" /] Storytime: So one of the TAs for 18.02A has a crazy response time. Like you ... a class so I ended up doing the same thing for all the other classes I

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

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  to be a teacher in the first place, that they're better people for ... 'm too tired to dig up the post so I'll give a quick recap. First you apply. Your application is read by a senior staff member who will look for deal

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the ... . Mystified, I tore off the flap, and a brand new book slid out. I yelped

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a ... . There's even a word for the small droplets that fall through an open ... the pattern for ulan is, as I mentioned earlier, a brief period of rain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  building, and she was kind enough to offer me a few square feet for the ... 't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  attempting an 8.01 pset. The room feels like a postwar battlefield, with drowsy ... finished a 7.012 Biology pset early Wednesday morning, I wrote an essay for ... .02 Multivariable pset this morning as well as study for the midterm exam tomorrow

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014