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

  

  when you make the end of a bar thin and pointy. rivets are like double ... , then using a punch to flatten the tab of the bottle opener. This one was ... perpendicular to the plane of the bottle and pops off the top. Unfortunately I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and ... looks about as appetizing as the last photo of an Anna's burrito I posted ... good parts are what I'd hoped for, and the parts I was afraid of are

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  -opposite-gender thing, because, again: deeply unpopular. The effort was a lot of fun, but ... that I didn't think of the pun myself. Anyways, so a week ago, we went ... be buttoned to the buttons on their own side of the coat (folding the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of ... neurons. So that's my boring story of the week. If you want, you can ... -ultra-delayed blog post about the best part of MIT: WMBR 88.1 FM, the campus radio

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but ... spirit of MIT. People here want to change the world - in whatever way they

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ;Top left photo by John Chow.   End-of-the-semester class ... half million dollars. Under the tutelage of Professor David Wallace ... ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... . Toward the end of September I became noticeably stressed out. I stopped ... of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  not real, because— Two. Here's the context of all this, okay? Two ... day everyone moved out of hall. Three. Alan and I ate lunch the other ... 's another lie. I know some of the feelings I've felt. I don't know all of them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  internships, and of the 20+ gigs I applied to, I got one offer, six rejections ... . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... Hopkins and Brown and Dartmouth rejected her, and she was offered the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not remain consistent with the high levels of integrity that you have shown in ... integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... wanted to take to see controls from the electrical systems point of view ... robust foundation before foraying into the wilds of complicated nonlinear

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to ... was asexual, in the sense that I've shared a lot of experiences that ... anosmia, up until they were asked to describe the scent of a peach for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  listening to books. People seem to enjoy what I make and the joy of others ... ; I usually worked on the big mural in my apartment just because of the ... Reddit. Here are two of my favorite. The more and more I designed and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  ahead into the '06, I offer this quote from one of my favorite writers ... call the "Nance Effect" a home of sorts, thank you for your continued ... witnessed many of you struggle to make sense of the pain and disappointment of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  offer of admission, from the big name universiy, that will impress their ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... not clear, applying for admission involves the submission of academic

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  filled with some of the most passionate people you'll ever have the ... the other side of the beaver (we flip our brass rats around after ... finally hit the 6 month mark at my job. Wow. Well here we are. 6 months of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... piles of dirty laundry, p-sets, paper, scarves, and pencils. The drawers ... . The room reeked of the moldy coffee that had been sitting in the coffee

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  story of the “trailer” we would have. We based it on the existing Riri introductory comic, and a lot of the fanart that was on tumblr. We’d follow ... of real places at MIT. From there, as the resident Mechanical Engineer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a desert storm. And one of the Guild's oldest traditions is the ten-day game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and ... to help”. I called Milton, the head of the volunteer department and he ... at the lobby, directing the traffic flow and helped bring families of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013