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• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  over the step to the front door—you! Hello, incoming freshmen! new ... . Truffles, nerf guns, chess. Chess with nerf guns. Come to Random. 8 ... Pancakes. Why are we up this late? To feed you pancakes of course! Pancakes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  was the one pulling the launch string) so I didn’t get to see it happen in real time, but if my team mates are to be believed, the rocket went ... springtime sky before hurtling back down to earth.   Our beautiful

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  Another Questions Omnibus... as always, I wish I had more time to ... , this is our first year blogging, so I don't quite know what to expect. I ... each application, and that people know that we did our best to select a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  It's December, which means it is time to (drumroll please)...   ... (cue airhorn noise)🎉🎉   As someone who loves to obsess over random, [annotation note = "Spotify Wrapped HATES to see me coming

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and ... technicals were the only place to carve time out of my schedule. I learned the ... in at 6 am and promptly went to sleep. This wasn’t a great use of time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  class became more important and I found some fun extracurriculars to ... aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it ... pretty disciplined person, I have no self control when it comes to books

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  of the intern coordinators sent the invite to everyone else. On the ... were informed in early March, ten months before we had to move in. We had the option to pick the Menlo Park or New York offices, and I chose Menlo

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was cognitive augmentation (mas.s65), a class on using technology to augment human ... . it turned out to be a very inspiring class that truly expanded the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  to actually write a blog. Life has been good, but busy. I’m taking ... ."]main thing[/annotation] on my mind, and I've been meaning to write a schedule ... like about my classes, the reasons I'm excited to take them. I’m on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  is, albeit not a very creative one.  I wasn't originally planning to write about getting deferred for this blog and planned to talk about this ... interested in MIT freshman year when I got to be on campus during ESP's splash

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  quite a bit. I had a whole Penske truck to fill. I'm not sure why I left ... (which can be expensive and annoying). I was happy to pack all of my stuff ... everything in a box. No need to partition items into "do I need this at home

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  alternate subtitle: how I learned to stop worrying and throw some ... myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the fridge. Learning to cook was the one thing I hadn't crossed off all of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides ... who are committed to learning French at MIT. You spend two weeks in ... going to class, we had a packed schedule of walking tours of different

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  It’s that time of year again. I remember it well. I intended to ... to pretty much anything, so if you’re still doing some last ... (this job is so convenient!). I decided to create this post as a practical

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief ... floor above mine, one often subjected to the graceful fingers of Random ... , there was always a sort of merry, thoughtless deliberateness to my efforts

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  millions of nighttime lights. I pressed my face to the window, not quite sure ... awesome Nigerian food—how I missed that!—and looking forward to a wedding ... circular dancing to a synchronized warble my cousins shimmied to, the heavy

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each ... nice personal touch / warm fuzzy feeling to the seemingly heartless process of admissions. When I invited Stephan'13 to come volunteer at the EA

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  Mystery Hunt ended just over a week ago and I think it's safe to say ... hard to work up the effort to do a comprehensive blog entry that detailed ... Mystery Hunt that I think all I'll be able to manage is an entertaining

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  friend, Levi observes that:  “He did not belong to that species of persons who do things in order to talk about them (like me)” I, too, belong to ... this rare opportunity to go on trips and retreats up in the Northeastern

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  coordinate the GEL1s. Check out their website to learn more! Our journey to GELcamp started with a two-hour bus-ride from campus to New Hampshire, where ... much, so I was surprised to be greeted by a cozy summer camp with dozens

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025