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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  challenge. That Sunday, I went shopping for hours at 5 different places to get ... Iroh’s tea shop in Ba Sing Se. For a moment, he pursues Appa and thus the ... Beware! There will be many spoilers for Avatar: The Last Airbender

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• 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?

  

  the kitchen for a snack and everyone is there. “I should be asleep,” you ... lecture. It is noon. Danny B.D. ‘15 You ask for a studfinder. I give you a power drill.   You ask for a studfinder, but it turns out I don

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  . For Squids, there were no actual squids. Except us, metaphorically. This ... beautiful summer day in Boston[/caption] I stayed in Boston last summer. For ... East Campus (EC) and Burton Conner House (BC) for summer rent (the other

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ." List your skills for us. How many programming languages do you know? I ... application. "Tell us about something you do for fun." McGreggor and I ... On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  flirting, us five or so coteachers were audience plants for volunteers. I ... , the legend, has taught for Splash. And this will be yet another post ...  I experienced Splash this year. For reasons I’ll talk about later in this post

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  for 21W.758 aka. MIT.616). I'm usually really bad at talking to ... course) for the blogs after the semester's over, so I'll write more about ... can't wait until Christmas break.   1:00pm arrive for meeting at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least ... want to work on satellite and spacecraft controls for NASA, and I ... useful to society.   I think I would be happy as a controls engineer for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  'm talking about an opportunity for personal growth. It's the big selling ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  are, so we drew something for you!         ... majority of attendees will be looking for friends, just like you! 3. Visit ... community for everyone! K: If you're thinking about going to MIT (which I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  my advisor placement at first, since i had only applied for advising ... “hardest things available”. looking for challenge, i definitely got what i asked for. i talked to the professor about whether or not i should drop to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  also mailing lists for memes, or pictures of walruses, or for selling ... consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... household was hard. For a while it was fine (up to around middle school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  . For many of you reading this, perhaps resting after submitting your ... for me. I think back to who I was ten years ago, at just 12 years old ... effect of allowing us to reflect on the past—to soak it all in, to remember

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  like for you. You might have gotten recently added to the Discord or ... means easy. The hard part is over (for now). A lot of adMITs will throw themselves into a panic because they think they need to prepare for MIT, when

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  a class. It's been a hard few weeks for my friends too, with the long ... 's also been a rough few weeks for the MIT community overall, with the losses of Matthew Nehring and Christina Tournant. And for you, dear

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

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

  

  course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 ... IAP, I was a teaching assistant for the very first time. Elizabeth ... is part of why my vlogging experiment for the Admissions Blogs is so

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did ... representative of Tetazoo and Blacker’s love for each other. [caption id

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  campus for us: the Margaret Cheney Room. I've studied at a lot of lounges ... -off situation that did not necessarily set precedent for admitting more women ... STEM”. I see the arguments for women-specific programs being adverse to

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

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate ... in charge that you’re not just great, but also necessary. For some, of ... school for architecture or engineering, or maybe even writing, or a job at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the ... . COME VISIT US BENNO!) You can just check out the link above, or read ... excited for MIT, but I am having some second thoughts. Concerning my peers

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008