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

  

  classmates helped build.) I'm really grateful that Zack I. '27 offered to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  is still around 1”. All in all, I’m quite pleased with how the sword

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

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  , see e.g. How to (Im)properly Cross Register. Some considerations. Other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  the black women at MIT, and I’m glad that there’s now an additional

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  early international students. I'm an immigrant from Ukraine, so it was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I'm

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  likely learn your limits, if you haven’t already. Pun not intended, but I'm

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  better off going somewhere that gets it." Aritro '17 - "I'm sorry that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  my math major. (The second one, which I’m taking this semester, is 18 ... one of my hopes for my technical education at MIT: as a 6-7/18 major, I’m ... all three. I’m hoping that my broader education at MIT will help me find

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  materials science and engineering. But I'm writing this post about anxiety

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  range estimation and entering the second quarter of my time at MIT. I'm

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  you're at it.... Want more? I'm just getting started :D ----- Stay

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  was trivial), but now I'm happily a Biology (and pending History) major

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  beautiful exchange: "Okay, I'm not sure that was supposed to be strip Drag ... experience, and I'm so grateful for the people who convinced me to do it. Some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  wave and a corral. I'm wave 4, corral 4. It used to bother me that we ... as it takes to get where I'm going, and that I'll try to appreciate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  , specific subject descriptions. Some disclaimers. I'm not guaranteeing ... . I'm sorry. Have a picture of Ice Bear for consolation. « 1880 ... are primarily for grad students and (B) subjects are for both. I'm not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  twice, I’m obligated to mention that it stopped getting published 2011

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  awkwardness of meeting new people: people automatically assumed that I’m kinda

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Lemongrab GIFs fly from your flips. im-having-a-personal-problem is cc’d. Why ... , and that you should ask the TA that sort of thing. Skyler A. ‘16 I’m

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  : QuestBridge is an amazing program (I’m very biased because QuestBridge is

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025