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  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  highschool in 3 years. and i am sure that i've read somewhere=> do we have to ... comments. I do read every comment, and it makes me happy to see a blog ... while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  much about what I'll be doing yet but it's sure to be very scientific and ... . (side note: my condolences to all those left high and dry when the IAP ... the trunk's corners and pockets to find...nothing. Uh. Fortunately

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  of time (sorry!) and after Ruth's balloon adventure, I headed over to ... someone else take the shot. Then he sent it to me and I spent way, way too much time in Photoshop because I didn't want to be programming in Scheme

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  -day sleep. Not only does sleep seem to oscillate between deprivation and ... Requirement, always provided the empty space and mirrors necessary for us to ... impossible to ever find and to get into, being at the end of a winding series

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  had to see it again, and bring my family this time. https ... , the experience isn't describable, and I didn't even attempt to take ... , the cloud forecast was looking gloomy all month and up to the morning of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  to be more elation, more joy, and more optimism as I looked toward the ... May as the temperature struggled to surpass 60F and the sky remained dark and sunless. But, I still managed to find time to relax in the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  As many of you know, Random Hall has come to represent much more than ... performing a birthday dirge, as opposed to a birthday song, where we stomp and ... excursion to Lobby 7, stands in a circle, and performs the birthday dirge. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  to Psychology 21W.755 - Writing and Reading Short Stories 9.URG ... writing and think it'd be great to improve my creative writing ability, or ... concentration, and I want mine to be writing! It'll give me a little break from

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  rolling backpacks and headgear. It's not that my throwback to the early 90s ... haven't rollerbladed since I was much closer to the ground. Speaking of ... , and trampoline. What? Of course I'm not trying to peer pressure you into

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  figure out what's wrong and take steps to fix the problem, but much of the ... important thing you'll learn is how to ask for help. And that's still true ... out to teach you how to think, and how to approach thinking, and how to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT, and regret that we ... According to the admissions profession's Code of Ethics and ... , we take about a week to determine the state of the incoming class, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  It's beginning to warm up here - still in the 20s, but sunny and nice - so during a break in committee I took the opportunity to cross the Mass ... sad. But no more. For today I have free food. And there is much

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  lack the ability to cook food in small amounts and nearly all of my ... " to the end of it. "But it's black beans and rice flambé, Mom!" didn ... right next to East Campus and down the street from Senior House. There are

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... students to just kind of relax," said Martha Merrill, dean of admission and ... the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  , then mosey over to wherever the add/drop forms exist on Websis, and type ... out to be totally true the buildings have names, not numbers, and the ... own jargon, too, though it doesn’t seem to have as much. On the first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  prolonged immunity response to pathogens and put them on the Pseudomonas ... to do, with pictures! (my description above is greatly abbreviated and ... to rigorous AP or university-level classes in our Junction and Delve

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  everyone on the team took time to answer my questions, and I conferred with ... work to the master branch and how the different parts of the project fit together. I kept taking slightly more complicated tasks, and referred to my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  . You are not the tidy person you once were. Little piles are starting to emerge and your disorganization is starting to affect your life and inconvenience you. Things are just starting to get out of hand and become

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic ... presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I ... eighth grade. I had just moved from Texas to Maryland, and I was going

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  past year consisted of things much bigger and better than the story of my ... F-I-N-I-S-H-E-D. My last final is over, my boxes are packed, and I need to check in for my flight home in six hours. My one-week-old brass

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011