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

  

  element of ironwork to iterate 5 times in an exploratory project. I decided ... of the blade -- except in a few places, where I squeezed it a bit too ... I could get a measure of how much mass was in each part of the sword

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

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  other angsty 20-year-old emotion I can throw at them. Through all of it ... getting a B in the class. Another example, I skipped the majority of my ... they get here, and I like sharing with everybody the types of things I do

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard, thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  with the justification of "Fuck it, why not? I can just drop it if I don ... class alone, probably more than I did in my entire senior year of high ... big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  then we wait. In the meantime, I have plenty of other things to worry ... the events I am responsible for; giving a tour of Next House in ... , having seen the kind of welcome our community can pull together, I feel at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  theme song on the piano in the middle of the room. Nearby, an ... , colorfully explaining physics concepts that I could only scrape the surface of grasping. I soaked it all in and confirmed that MIT was for me. I was

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  % from all of that a cappella texting, so I sit in my room and charge it ... of this sidewalk -- those tall buildings you can see in the very back ... Head of House swipes us in and we grab food. I thought it would be a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  -facing tables. To top it all off, it’s located in the heart of main campus. I ... , women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine ... 's admitted students was comprised of 48% women.  [annotation note='recently, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  least I experienced it that way. You're immersed in a fragment of the ... tethers [annotation note="or us, because I am in a distinct kind of liminal ... a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  or 8 “Hmm. In my personal life, I can see myself as Type 2. I think ... in a large amount of settings.” On being a Tiger: “I like the ... (n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a post about personality tests, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  -blue voice. A man in a denim jacket plays a green violin. "I can't feel my ... , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the ... in class. On Good Friday I have an exam. On Easter Vigil I am here. The

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  , pictures of rockets on the wall -- and I can't imagine he hadn't dreamed of ... in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . The sophomore I taught to square numbers is one of a hundred kids in ... , this was a waste of precious learning time, so I stepped in for the class ... , I was in their shoes: a senior in high school. A couple of them are

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

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... since each floor of BC has such vastly different culture...I can't imagine

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT.nano where I immortalized one of those pictures as a solar cell! [caption id ... cat I found online.)[/caption] The inspiration MIT.nano is MIT’s state-of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper's office in the Student Center. Last night was one of those nights; let me ... -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  i know what course 6 is ME: of course you do * * * ME: in french ... and i can't believe this roller coaster and wow ME: omg yeah i know ... : hey ME: hey FROSH: can i have my hair dyed ME

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  channel was one of the reasons I loved biology back in high school)   ... many things out there that I can't fit in a single blog post, so while I ... these opportunities, there are so many things that can limit the use of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... them still intact. Sorry for the “Admittedly” pun back there. I just can ... you not watched all three Lord of the Rings Extended Editions in a row

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  working on campus. or rather, I feel guilty whenever I work in my bed since I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023