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  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  easy to get used to. It’s important to remember throughout your time at ... of like working for a dating site. What is really cool is I get to meet ... summer. When they offered me another chance to get involved in the program

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few ... each other. I finally discovered my passion in life, and now I get to put ... was it like to have Junot Diaz as your creative writing professor at MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  people from your high school know about MIT? What made you decide to come ... suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get ... -Madison. What inspired you to get into limnology? It's like the (awesomer

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  on what you're looking for. But first, where do we begin? How to Get ... you walk down the street, you get to a point where you're under ... buildings getting taller and taller as you go along. You're close to Kendall

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I have yet to be disappointed. Some of them didn't get admitted to MIT ... , but not all. I loved being able to look up from my desk and get student

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  totally different experience at MIT. You’re a little more independent; there ... ’m prone to tripping over myself), so I wasn’t getting a lot of encouragement ... and read some of my old MITblog entries from time to time when I get

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  to wear velcro." I have never, ever been one to get anything done ... myself that if I get it done now I won't have to worry about it later, and ... possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  up the stairs to get a higher seat since sitting in the front scares me ... struggled with actually getting my code to work. By the time lab was over, I ... to loud continous sounds Your system shoudl NOT respond to continuous

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  ? Well, I guess I could go home pretty early to get a full night's rest ... so far as much as we care about what you're going to do at MIT. As ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the ... didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track of my assignments. I used a Google Chrome extension called Draftback to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  get into MIT, but I do believe you're all guaranteed for success just ... you. If you do that, you're guaranteed to discover the blessing in ... do to cope with it. Cry, scream, eat your feelings. But only for a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  area and asked if I wanted to get dinner. Rejoicing that once again ... refers to the observed phenomenon that making decisions depletes your ... during committee, buy low-glycemic index snacks to avoid spikes and crashes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  so… I don’t even know what to say. If you’re reading this, you ... took me to get this decision, I was also spending a lot of time on ... challenge. That Sunday, I went shopping for hours at 5 different places to get

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  remembers the three-factor authorisation procedure she had to follow to get ... your mailing list? To the student groups, the Midway is one of the ... again, in wide-eyed wonder that I get to choose which classes I can take

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  sitting on your desktop that refuses to get shorter? Is it a person that you ... thing to get under control when you are feeling overwhelmed and/or anxious ... . If you are not in a safe space, try to find one. Whether it is your

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  ;would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university ... be helpful to you. The rules are simple: write your own essays. That's the best advice anyone can give to you. Your application is full

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  cultural fit to find your best space. PRICING: MIT has three tiers of dorm ... dorm with a dining hall will add a significant additional charge to your ...  don't worry about your cooking skills. If you want to learn, there’ll be plenty

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  character to your room. get SLAPped! ... room or common area. if you're selected, you pick a time to visit the ... 's telling about gender. getting to look at this painting up close in my room

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  development projects. Most of all, he told us never to get discouraged or give ... . Muti is far from the capital city. It takes a 9-hour bus ride to get to a ... for four hours to get to my father’s village in the countryside, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016