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

  

  summer. When they offered me another chance to get involved in the program ... , it also involved a fantastic team. I was lucky enough to get the ... months to even get acclimated to a company like that, so I don’t see myself

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... was these disgusting soggy noodles that I made by getting boiling water ... Madrid, I went to work on a farm in the south of Spain. It was owned by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... what kind of bridge it is to flex my [annotation note="read: googling ... Watertown or Waltham, I’ll get to experience more of them. Alas, I don’t think

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get ... 's hard to give a comprehensive answer to that question, but perhaps this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  ticket. So that was that, I'd stalk around and try to get some money shots ... are brutal). I dressed nicely and headed to lab to get some work done ... get in line. The ticket told me to get in line at 10:30AM. I got there

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  lot of persistence for me to not get frustrated and give myself time to get to the lightbulb moment, week after week. Being surrounded by other ... get back to campus. 3. MIT: Progressions (1969) 25 mins https://www

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... situations." Only long term perservence was going to get me through this ... a night multiple nights in a row if I needed to get an assignment done

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... devoted to. As the semesters went by, I developed priorities alongside ... not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  commit to MIT.  Since Kenneth grew up surrounded by Black Greek culture ... to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members as possible and ... quick to introduce and connect with each other, so not only do you get to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  all four grades were to be housed side-by-side. The result was an ... . Thanks again to Lydia for helping me get that online before I was an actual ... fire to which students responded by throwing a dance party to "We Didn

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  reunion of sorts—Thursday night, you get to say hello and catch up with ... gathered around the TV to watch. The scavenger hunt isn't just about getting things done to get the answer to the puzzle—it's one of the few

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  going to be ducks, and the poster was to get people in the MIT community ... classes, they have to get approved, any materials have to be acquired ... by, you talk to them even more about teaching, because you know them so

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

  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?!

  

  additional living spaces began soon after. Despite an intense desire to get ... manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great lengths to advertise itself as a place not only of rigorous academics, but

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

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  : College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh This post was tough to edit! Both ... Pictures of 2017. By then, I memorized all the contents of my Google Photos ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

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

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  ’s monday, i thought, and maybe i should try to get work done today. that day ... limit, but not reaching it, not getting past it. now, it truly does feel ... happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 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?

  

  . ‘18 It is 5 am. You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem ... . You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem. You are in ... , stumbling to the bathroom. Your path is blocked by a herd of tetafrosh

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  . By encouraging the undergrads to go off and get experiences elsewhere ... . By itself, this would NOT have been a good reason to apply. But in the ... getting me to this place. But the reality is that I could not have done it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get people to ask questions about your silly hats. Take pictures of yourself

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... kind to myself remains a work in process. wave imagery inspired by ... the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  test scores to prove it. 4. Get off campus at least once a week. It ... exhausting routine. At the very least, take a walk. Get to know the community ... Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011