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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  crystals. The colors and shapes are as pure as can be.   Above left: To me ... convenient dust cap and the rotating end can be connected to a rotary switch to ... and the radiator may or may not be falling through the floor. Here is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to pursuing your ... truly learned. But it’s important to me to be a mindful citizen of the ... Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  be very proud of. But it's not something I'm going to bust out my ... with "the magic 1600" is not implicitly better to us than a student with ... , "What?!?!" I "ordered" Artemis to not take the Math SAT again, and instead

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE ... talks about the gap between having good taste and being able to produce ... are the things that I want to learn, but MIT will never offer a class on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don ... went along, and brought my little sister. She was excited to be there

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  as I prepare to be distracted. All the while, I hear the voice in my ... it’s foot down when I try to be kinder to myself. Why can’t you just ... performing, not completing, not succeeding. I want to stop feeling numb to the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  certainly within my lifetime, only the rich will be able to afford it, at ... diseases or defects. We’ll see where society will decide to draw the line ... of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  was everything you’d expect the President of MIT’s office to be – dark ... . I tell her this, and she says, “You have to be curious. If not, things ... to create programs that will use the minds of MIT to better our world

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  the place I was supposed to be. By the end of this year, I’ll have ... how the semester will go, about which classes to take. I'm still trying ... decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  in the fall, and there will be home again. It will be different—not ... , and the unique circumstances of this semester will not be the same as ... major, making music, writing poems—the list goes on. These posts will be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  -19 vaccine recently and to be completely honest did not think I would ... eight hours of sleep per night and if I don’t have anywhere to be I will ... ’ve learned the hard way, that’s not sustainable. We weren’t built to do every

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal ... Maclaurin traveled the world to recruit foreign students. Numbers prove MIT’s commitment to diversity, but they cannot tell the stories of the international

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  goals."][/annotation] for the time being, i’ve decided to try not sharing ... am referring to the 6 stem classes that must be taken (or tested out of ... asked for. i talked to the professor about whether or not i should drop to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the ... For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  labels you try and put on it, you will only come two-thirds of the way to ... the parents of my fraternity brothers - not to mention the other current ... of the person I always wanted to be. At MIT, hundreds of miles from my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  the last few years, which makes it hard to be certain about where I ... did I want to be a software engineer? Why didn’t I explore academic ... . If you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon ... changed to toothbrush, if you happen upon me anywhere in the greater Boston ... his parents, to highlight the isolation one feels in returning to a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  ’ve been able to really be a part of the lab. I attend meetings and reading ... the stressful questions college students face from beginning to end, why ... irrationally) fearing that I would be starving in June. The answer to that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  why that is a trigger to your anxiety. Ever hear of the saying "bring ... day are not okay. When things get to be too much, it is really important ... feeling of adrenaline pumping through your body. It can be a part of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  How much is the application fee?

  one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver will not have any ... The first-year application fee is $75, payable online with a credit