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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Domination! Up in the morning, ready to seize the day, watch your enemies ... Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like today it smelled like the boxes stacked on the furniture and the floor and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a ... spring semester off if the current situation doesn’t change. Maybe this ... , the fun and stupid anecdotes of road tripping up the west coast, working

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  grotesque assertion of dominance). One of the highlights of that week was ... It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria ... the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  extremely engaging lectures. He has played a dominant role in the creation and ... Right before school started, I sent out a survey to all the dorms ... summary of those results and a full list of the classes submitted! All the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
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  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  why i didn’t post over the summer (oops) late comic about my summer

  

        

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 25, 2023
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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... , including the Great Dome and Lobby 7, was built in the early 1900s in the ... large open lobbies separated from the classrooms and offices. These are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a LaTeX-based CAPTCHA, and the super PAC Why Not ZoidPAC?, of which he is President and ... his final paper for STS.050 (The History of MIT), about the founding of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  Hey guys! I know it's been a little while since I have blogged. The problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the ... the life of an MIT student, my pictures are not about my life as an MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
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  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with two

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
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  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of campus. Here is the view from the Longfellow Bridge from the MIT side. MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Each undergrad in MIT majors in one of [annotation note="The numbers skip 13, 19, and 23. The registrar lists CMS as XXI-CMS, and STS has no ... is significance behind 21 majors, as 21 is also the number of major

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  own. As admissions officers, we talk about one way the residents of ... . The details of the project change each year, but it's always ambitious ... first got to the office, our information sessions even showcased a picture

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
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  New Game a comic summary of the semester

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 4, 2023
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  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
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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

    Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly-built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it”). Five are on the drop, drilling: two on the slide itself, two behind it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  motivation for what we did? Alan: …not really. But there is, at the very least ... of the MBTA stations, including the Silver Line. He made a post about it on Facebook detailing his route, the times he arrived at each

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

         “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the ... slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas ... technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... this year! It's Cthulhu, rising from Rl'yeh to crush the unsuspecting

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in Talbot, the large common room of East Campus, the only two females foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011