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

  

  I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3 ... credit for me, but also accelerated my blacksmithing knowledge and practice ... ="alignnone" width="198"] riveted V (for Velez), spiral, and fitted bars

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

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

  

  ="87065" /] Pros booths are great for solo/partner work comfortable seating ... positive but for me is distracting food is so overpriced Fourth Floor ... year that I made a playlist for when I study there...yes, I'm serious

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of ... Gregor for CPW. The walk to campus was miserable: cold air and colder rain and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  using his own intelligence and sweat of his brow. I would love for that to ... for the name John Underkoffler, and write down what he is credited as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I disagree. Sure, we may not have brick buildings and ivy-covered walls.  But we have wacky (modern? postmodern?) buildings, the best river views in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  belongs here, then you obviously don’t know what MIT is about. (And for the ... so few spots for so many qualified people, which means we can’t take ... answer you’re looking for. I wish we could just give you a perfect black

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  for all those personality tests! None of this, the tests themselves nor ... bloggers) for yourself! Tests Included The structure of my survey was more or ... hungry during the race, promptly stopped for a feast and then fell asleep

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  gel thickening agent. I’ve been at MIT for a while: this is my sixth ... answering the frosh open the circle and we divvy up the cards for a game of BS ... conservation of energy you can’t go full circle. We get to watch preparations for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for ... see the full-size photo.) That photo is incredible for a lot of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in ... was the right place for me to be pre-med...despite the fact that I would

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

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  shops I haven't shown you photos of. Up first: the Lab for Manufacturing ... the shop whenever you want, whether it's for a class project, a student ... end of it- there are even more shop spaces around campus which are for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  Daiso Japan in Berkeley sells these for 1.50. I imagine they work ... ://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=GTL) -- and no, not gaming, table tennis, and library. But if you asked me for a recipe for my amazing summer, I could only tell you what I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  one would notice for weeks; these include things like "big iff [if and ... scooting around campus much less from now on :o For the past 3 years, my ... . No easy way of getting around at all. For the most part, this was fine

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  around downtown Boston to do a little shopping (which had the added benefit of helping us avoid food coma). I ended up spending quite a bit of time ... , Stunes '11, and I headed to Harvard Square to go book-shopping and see The

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  . For some reason, every coffee-shop-that-is-also-actually-another-kind-of-shop ... , "Call for a good time." He showed up at the requested meeting place, and was whisked off for a day of exhilarating, platonic adventure

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  -student-friends for suggestions, and I’m too lazy to format this in any coherent way, so here’s a list of things that are different in the US.[annotation note="18 ... 12!"][/annotation] Back at home, we use spoons and forks for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  entrance fee was too much for either of us, so it would have to be subsidized ... interested as well, and fortunately for us we meet the initial criteria (not an ... . It's $100 per person, which is a little hard for us to pay for. Would 2

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  for-credit projects, the Hobby Shop has a more "lived-in" feel than ... present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can imagine, especially considering that our official motto is Latin for "Mind

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  aunties that lived in the area tried to take us clothes shopping, and with ... groceries you can’t find in the US for dirt cheap. Then again, I’m biased ... they care for us all the same.     by the way, my sister

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024