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

  

  classes there, and if you do well enough in their classes you’re basically ... . It’s built to be part time, it’s right up the street (I tend to do ... for my plans. Do as much as I can and learn as much as I can at Akamai

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  different one. Sam told me that he was having trouble choosing what to do. He ... to enroll at MIT or to go somewhere / do something else instead ... different curricula, or climates, or financial aid packages? Do they even want

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  idea to give an introduction to ESP, and what we do, that's shorter than ... 's motto is learn anything, teach anything, do anything, and we really mean ... possibility. Imagine what we could do if we didn't have to worry about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ? Learn anything The extracurricular he really likes doing Hi, are you ... anything, do anything!” And the first time I looked at the class catalog, I ... . what do you see? why is the world this way? who am i?” One of my friends

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

  finding place

  

  't have the capacity to make it happen unless they do. At the end of fall ... ). Community got submerged. I don't recommend doing that, but it did teach me my ... feel at home. I'm trying to do more outings and have a bit of a group

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing ... -end."]front-end facing.[/annotation] How do you design an interface that makes ... I liked doing than disliked doing. In one sense, that's a good thing

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

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  morning and slept at midnight and yet I felt like I didn't do anything. Time ... , but I can start with the ones I do know the names of. There's the ... ask myself. What do I want to be more vulnerable about? It may seem

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  depressed person do THIS?” she says at am as she folds her laundry that came

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  might impact their college applications. We do not expect or prefer any ... students do. However, as part of the Turning the Tide report, we have also ... responsibility is, like most things at MIT, something you learn best by doing

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  little knowledge of what I'm doing. Mostly going off instinct, referencing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  this magical science place. But before I do, a big disclaimer is that I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  though, nearly incomprehensible to the vast majority. I do explain that I ... transformative experiences in situations like these, and even do a great deal of ... rigueur activity that everyone needed to do in order to look good for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  best thing to do about it. Talking it over with Dave and a friend of mine ... -building headaches like a drive failure, there was little time to do anything beyond ... Veys were super happy, and quickly found other techie tasks for me to do

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  'd do a weeks worth of BC calc homework less than an hour before turning ... the things I can do as a result. It may be a work in progress, but my ... to make huge and sweeping changes to try and find better ways to do

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  ’t mind doing that for you, it’s not a really exciting question. If you ask ... times we don’t know what to write, and even when we do, we don’t know if ... 're just going to say we don't know anyway. 6. Do not insult my SAT score. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  do, but couldn't build anything if their life depended on it. They don ... classes I've taken, is what I can do. I can code, if not terribly well, in ... 's forge to make knife and sword blades, and do metalworking in general. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , we begin with one of the most important questions in sailing: how do ... , even if i looked forward to it for weeks. three. "how do you sail, then ... , cj and claire, the main thing you'll do is tacking. i'll handle the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  is MIT: why bother doing a thing if you're not gonna be super extra about doing it? And so, we have not one, but two completely separate sets ... , could well be applied to life in general): Do it your way, not anyone

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  funds do? To amuse myself, I briefly pictured manicured shrubs made from ... . I didn’t know what to do, so I chose to do nothing: stumbled into a ... curiosities and dreams, but I don’t know what to do with that. I want to learn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  exactly what they’re doing. :’’) Not me. I entered MIT with the vague ... people, and the gist of what I would optimally do is to convert the ... otherwise would have no power to do. That’s what engineers do, right? They fix

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015