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  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  on February 29th, [annotation note="A shame. One year away from a truly ... four years, when it's Random's birthday, the entire dorm goes on a great

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  , this one actually depends on time/situation, but it’s usually along the ... :30 in the morning on Saturday, before I started one of my many assignments ... confirm, people play too much tractor on our floor"]the most time playing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  . One of my friends on the floor I live in stuck his sticker on his door ... class if we haven’t yet. Here’s my sticker: The hallway on our floor ... ="aligncenter" width="1215"] i spent too much time working on this rather than my psets

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  hard! Uncertainty is right on the horizon, and it feels like the ... fate. It is scary and stressful.  So, let’s all go easy on ourselves ... and listening to all the songs on repeat This was a masterpiece. The

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  : we can meet Two hours later, we’re at Park Street, one of the stops on ... leading up to some unknown structure. There’s a mural on the lower ... meters in any direction. Open to the public, privately owned. Flanked on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  It's finals week. However, there's a lot going on besides final exams ... going on! Not everything is all that interesting (in fact, most of it is ... note="For more information on this, see the third section of this post

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various ... commitment] 40 hours (5 hours on Saturday, for 8 weeks)[tasks] Scratch is a ... compete in a Science Olympiad event called Game On. I quickly fell in love

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  're working on devising a federal bill to regulate smart city transportation ... too much time on the projects simply because I'm so invested in it and I ... our relationship to ecology, agriculture, and the land we live on. Our

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  overwhelming number of requirements/GIRs that are on there. Now if we take a ... in edtech, so I think that this will be a cool thing to work on. This ... ): I actually tried to ASE Biology when I entered MIT, but I got a D on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  from wondering how things could have been different. Did you miss out on something? Are you missing out on something right now? Can you do anything ... two comically oversized suitcases down dorm row to MacGregor, but on the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  stressful nights and over 1,700 miles on the Oregon trail, the finish line was crossed! Unbelievable Scenery at Scottsbluff, NE PC: Ashisha Persad On the ... the Hastings Motorsports Park on July 6th. During this section of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  surprised by how quickly my students caught on to code. These were students ... because of the stronger emphasis on competitive individualism.   Final dinner with my students and another MIT GTL'er   Day 21: On a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations we are one MIT

  

  post on the early history of international students at MIT, particularly ... time away from reading applications to remind everyone on our homepage

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  on the Ukraine-Russia conflict. The project will involve a lot of ... she blacked out and (in her words based on eyewitness accounts): “I ... Jake told me it had been on one of the 5.111 lecture slides and i had

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  enrichment programs as the coasts. I like Bebras' focus on accessibility, both ... students can participate on any day from November 6 – 17. If you have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and ... an airport and i was in the second-to-last row window seat on a redeye

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  and just kind of doing nothing but chillin. However, on the other end I ... also on pass no record so it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. I just knew ... increase in social life and decrease in hard focuses on studies my first

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  it is on the forefront of the ed tech movement. As early as 2001, at ... for students in on-campus courses (and you can follow along with MIT ... works best for students and instructors? How can we prevent “cheating” on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even ... , 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants. And that was just on ... slept sitting on a chair by a coffee table. It was so uncomfortable and I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  handing in on time, there are no more days where I have to worry about ... winter-me. I’m on the train heading into the depths of New York City, about ... ’m riding the subway alone. The signal on the train is spotty as it dips

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016