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  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  friends! Please come visit us at Random Hall, and come live or hang out here if you fit in. Below is a list of events happening at Random this ... missed. This list is correct. The booklet they gave you at orientation is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  light taunts me, telling me at least it’ll be easy for my worn out body ... ’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d write a poem in our own time and then read it out aloud during class for a round of feedback. And that was it! I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to talk about my classes for a while but lacked the motivation for it! 8 ... Learning"]TEAL.[/annotation] At first, I was really nervous to take this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  . This year, for REX, one of the things being built was a fort ... , something so carefully and meticulously thought out, something for actual ... just scary, because how do you talk to people? How do you ask for help

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the ... lot about my feelings and about experiencing MIT for the first time ... year. I only noticed it now, but my class selections for the fall and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  example; feel free to skip to the bullet points at the end of this section."]For ... , ready for change, and safe from bugs.[/annotation] I knew I lacked ... 's about the hard skills I wasn't good at because I didn't realize they

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  jumpscared me while I was waiting for my next class to start! It looked completely unsupervised at first, as if it was just going for a casual stroll ... Let’s face it, MIT’s campus is not known for being the most gorgeous

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  extensive tour of rooms on [annotation note="For those who don't know us, we ... , late night talks, and going on adventures - come say hi at CPW!"]B1 ... .... i love the way i have it set up. i especially love staring at my line

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  numbers. And that's something I've been working on at school for the past ... these questions, we have to look at a sticking-together rock up close ... pretend that they're balls for now.) These little balls cause little

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  album[/caption] Her music reminded me of what I’ve tried to do for a ... for the first time, with a short story I wrote over winter break. It was ... for years, like how I felt trapped between the dichotomy of being a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and ... to become a part of. This was the long and short of the story, but for ... Sinclair. At one point in the show, Esther is described to be the sort of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  there are other circumstances, too, in which the cost of trying for ... . For similar reasons (with the bonus fear of getting hate-crimed), I don ... entire summer at an internship and didn't get a return offer, and that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  't realize there was no kitchen at all, just a sink, a microwave, and some ... in for the month of August, but wasn't sure if it was worth the move seeing as the money spent on the airbnb was nonrefundable at this time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  okay, it’s a bit early to proclaim my love for this place, especially ... ) and chilled for four months taking various online courses, studying ... latte with almond milk, being vaguely productive for a couple of hours

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  , thinking about final assignments and projects for the semester, thinking ... boxed and stored away for three months. i moved back [annotation note="real home"]home[/annotation] for a week, where i was mostly alone, besides the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  , but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has ... , in spreading the message that Many Things Are Arbitrary. For one thing ... your life plans or self worth on it. For another thing, whether you end

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  my breakfast on the back porch. I had class at Harvard, the only school ... the semester is stressful for everyone. For me, it's a plodding ... dollars for coffee; I like working in the library, but it was closed today

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  difficult subject for me to write about, so I am going to stop and let you ... , Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT and lead architect of the ... last Monday for Team MR8 in memory of my friend Martin Richard, who was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  there are tens of other resources out there for the general process ... , when the last of the freshmen are moving onto campus for orientation into ... application online by Wednesday, August 27th at 2:00 am. FYRE, like the initial

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  announcements for free activities. Over Memorial Day weekend, we met the Boston 1 ... “trained” for half an hour to compete in a mock-race. Everyone was super ... practices and possibly join the team. We even saw them again this weekend at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014