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

  

  MacGuffins, for lack of a better name. Another group was trying to get ... , which was on the high end of the HP stat distribution. I started with two ... for the Game Lab, which is so cool to me. Dream job TBH. Related to

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

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

  

  100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even ... , or visually with coins and blocks. You also get to have a lot of fun ... Pythagorean Theorem is difficult when you have no idea how to square, or take

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  to check on one of two hotel lobby computers, both of which had ... a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to ... having no cross-streets or turnaround areas, which took me halfway to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  +. If you go to your professor's office hours, which they'll post on the ... - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the ... router. Someone on Burton 4 declared loudly that it was all due to those

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  trophies and science olympiad medals, none of which I have or have ever had ... " to come here. I'd like to take that back, because of what happened on ... " or "Leadership" that you get to put on your transcript. I'm not an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  another HASS class to take and landed on CMS.840, which I initially didn ... on this. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi - This is one of those books ... voices on what the time was, even if some of them got to it a little more

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  snowboarding lesson that would often be able to do things on the first or second ... , onions or riding bicycles (have fun looking these up). Of course, that ... life, or at least life at MIT, is like snowboarding. You may or may not

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  one idea. Which is easier said than done. Listen to Ira Glass – He ... cables and learn what different pieces of equipment did. Which is, I think ... (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of ... is my friend David K. ‘16. He brought a giant teddy bear friend to all of his finals. If you would like to spread happiness with your every

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the two sides of a heart to be even is about as easy as herding cats ... dragon[/caption] On the first or second day of class, the prof showed a ... to the direction of the sword, which reduced the force of my blows

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

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  shelf out, and handed it to him. I picked his sweatpants up from on top of ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... . The only class to which I dragged myself on a semi-regular basis was my ... and had to stay up until 6 or 7am on many occasions to not only finish a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  personal. This isn’t to say one type is better. The difference is all about ... registration is quite simple, especially on the Harvard side, which is now ... teenagers of ages fourteen to eighteen. This destination is a high school

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects ... documenting his work completely rebuilding Gus, which (he told us) he planned to ... Scholarship is the most selective graduate fellowship available to American

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  -5+6-5+6-5 to get 3, or have to copy it from somewhere on the page). This has been ... a thing called Partimento (which is hard to explain), and I realized I ... because I'm afraid of being bad at it. Which yeah, sounds dumb on paper but

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  ....very soon..." One of many lessons I've learned is that waiting for things to ... 're inching closer to our biggest and greatest deployments (which some of you ... 's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  rolling waves of panic I had on the flight back to Boston). Thinking about ... of the future into a terrifying one. 2 So I try to pick apart what is ... around on-campus before rushing back to my dorm in the midst of a panic

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  on my list of worries, which have suddenly expanded dramatically to ... about. I'm working two jobs over the summer, one of which is to help to ... is in the first place—is it the continuity of dorm culture, or is it to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  fine, however, is missing out on a lot of defining experiences because ... afraid of (or excited by) the co-ed bathrooms. The thrill is over in about 2 seconds. Wednesday is the middle of the week; therefore on

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  [annotation note="which is dumb. I'm trying to be better ... usually a lot of what is needed to succeed is based on what other people ... penned articles titled ‘Homeless to Harvard’ or some variation of that

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020