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

  

  then on, I stopped trying to make my life perfect, and instead tried to ... ’d with the MIT Space Systems Laboratory working on the Zero Robotics ... program fake robots in a simulator…with the final competition being run on

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

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

  

  -written journal. When I was 16 years old, I wrote daily “diary” entries on my phone ... to scribble here and there on my tumblr blog. But again, it was only ... ” means. The other three iterations of this draft touched on all those

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... research is the UROP project that I've been working on for almost two years ... 's research on playing creativity games with robots, and she's written a few

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends ... tried my best Kari Byron = “Cheesiness on the pun scale” Tory Belleci ... of potential awesomeness” Francis Lawrence = "the amount of sweat on

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  asking about their work. A little more on this specialization resentment ... procrastinating on picking classes for the semester, I went online, made a list of ... , become a physicist, profit. I, on the other hand, was certain that I WASN

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... ’s kind of like plodding uphill knee-deep in mud on a hot humid day. Who

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  on Hamsika's blog about the Boston Globe special feature on MIT and ... pretty epic list! What will you do to make it on the MIT 200 retrospective?

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ) Lawyer; former staff to House of Representatives Committee on Science (Georgetown JD) "I work on quantitative stock trading out of my living room ... start-up focused on mobile money lending in Africa" Cirque du Soleil

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... on these small essays. Essentially, you have 5 "mini-essays" - What ... that MIT DOES NOT admit on a quota, and you WILL NOT be penalized by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  The reading continues, almost non-stop here... for another perspective on the reading, go on over and visit Ben. Shahab commented with ... those signs on the side of a bank that tells you the time and temperature

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  students smiling and laughing while sitting on a perfectly sunlit lawn under ... compared to the classes in my major that i would take later on. but i saw a ... our classes are on pass/no record (pnr) freshman fall

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  than done, relax. Give yourself a pat on the back. MIT is one of the most ... whole years to learn all about us. And on that note... Take what we ... it or not, we are going to biased on everything - preferred classes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  garbage disposal or a shower that gets hot right away, but it’s on the ... you’ve had; on the other hand my wish for you is that through storms and ... Cook barley in a pot on the stove. Make according to store directions. As

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

      Early morning on December 5th, 2012, my family and I ... application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I ... getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  the semester and plan on doing a reflection sometime before finals ... picture from my seat on the bus without looking too strange.   9:56am ... was going to be on a panel at SDCC, which she then found) over Tumblr

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 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.

  

  I've always been a procrastinator. I've procrastinated on such tasks from toddling around on the carpet and thinking "I suppose I'll try ... : Breakfast on these mornings is always Go-Gurt (despite scarily

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  buildings on campus, and the classes which they will take in the coming four ... ="depending on how you frame the situation, the General Institute Requirements ... paragraph on why. Why follow this advice? I have two reasons: first, having a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  . INCAPABLE. DEPENDENT. Got a low score on a test that I knew I could’ve done better on? LOSS OF POTENTIAL. DISAPPOINTMENT. BAGGAGE. For the past three ... .  It means that if I need four hours to read this lecture slowly on my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  steep slopes on narrow brick and stone streets; it is hidden alleyways ... facing the street. I am sharing it with you because 1. There is a store on

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

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus ... occasional art festivals. On the other, just beyond the Harvard Bridge ... historical 1809 Park Street Church. On mild-weather days, my friends and I love

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015