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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... find myself speaking in usual MIT lingo. I’m back to my usual regimen of ... ’s common in Nigeria for novels to be officially shown to the public in a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... had qualified to the AIME. I was pretty excited, and after a while, in a ... could only find in few other places. I merely had a general sense of what

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  'm the one who needs to be reminded. a happy moment in market design i ... the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... ’s worth a read.) I’ve started three other aborted blog posts trying to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... 're here, now, carrying a Nerf gun looking for people to shoot. Worry ... 't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my ... diminutive of parka, as in ‘I-need-a-parka’ weather), though due to severe jet ... glanced at the stone passageway in front of me, my bicycle locked to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  . Little does she know that soon a swarm will descend upon this campus. In ... like a freshman, i.e., to be naïve and excitable. And there ain't nuthin ... about ten percent of freshmen change their minds; they have a chance to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... little errors or large mistakes in reasoning. Try to make a large ... thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I ... active in little ways they find appropriate, like inviting people over to ... -captain and parents, got a few thousand dollars in funding to start our school

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

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

  

  : patronus", and you need to find and beat a certain number of these to do the ... future, that I can come back and continue to be a member of the Guild. In ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  autopilot while describing in detail how to stain a block of wood, and that I ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very ... my parents' house in Canada. In September, I moved back to Boston to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

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

  

  the tail in order to hammer it from a square shape to a round shape ... up to about 3200 °C. I clamped my sword in a vise and asked someone to ... ="84016" image2="84015" /] A solution to this would have been to use stoppers in

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

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... to cut them. Place the potato (or equivalent) and garlic cloves in a ... Cook barley in a pot on the stove. Make according to store directions. As

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... in MIT that night. I was going to miss a connecting flight, figured I ... the administration and complaints and choosing a place to live in, we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note ... compared to the classes in my major that i would take later on. but i saw a ... ” appears again in social context. to “have a thick skin” means to listen to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in ... start a dance party anywhere, any time. I fell in love and drove to the ... . MIT honestly paid my friend to go spend a month in Mongolia learning how

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  room hoping to find something to occupy my parading thoughts. A binder ... her I would find a cure to cancer. My binder was that promise. A promise ... To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of ... measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in ... chance to freak out and embarrass myself in front of lots of other people

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a ... :1 water to grain ratio), and your bouillon of choice, and place it in a pot ... waste when I have a ton of veggies starting to go bad in my fridge. Maybe

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019