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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  photographing campus and the Charles River to show you what I see. All of these ... entrance to Killian Court is visible to the left of the Green Building. The ... My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  bursts open due to its contents exceeding the capacity of its central pit ... -viable fragments, unable to form a necessary attachment to the tree and incapable of ... to reduce the incidence of fatal bursts; additionally, the muscle

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... few hours the four of us went back upstairs and said goodbye to BMF and ... /sad experience of p-setting to the soundtrack of the happy socializing noises

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  want to have a plan for when you'll finish each part of the GIRs ... concept of going to more classes than you intend to and then choosing the ... -ish lecture classes, you can show up to the first day of class even if you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  analysis is a big part of trying to process the outcome of a journey that a ... , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past ... it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jack of all trades master of none...

  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 24, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to ... , and most of the other schools I applied to were art schools anyway. My ... deal out of pi day to lessen the inevitable pain by making me watch a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the ... . Well, the class of 2020 got impressively loud to the point that the 2019 ... . Just to give a sense of how crazy and loud it was, here is a video of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  reason to live. I stopped seeing the point of going to college and ... -nighters. The worst part of it all—I didn’t even know what had happened to me ... beginning of the semester, I was lucky enough to work on an independent

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  was hard to deny that MIT does in fact wipe the hard drives of your high ... 'll hold the rest for the second edition of The Unofficial Guide to ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... to everything that we are about. Let me go back to the concept of ... to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of ... strategy. For the first week of classes, you're allowed to add classes as ... explore MIT. A word to the wise: investing a lot of time in a hobby or

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  , instead of continuing to fade away. The cicadas are screaming, July ... me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit ... bit of momentum fueling the blogging part of my brain. Here's a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  to live, and is currently one of the oldest and proudest residents of ... admission to MIT in the Class of 2019, despite its impressive achievements ... from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most likely have to submit some sort of documents trying to convince the people ... these, it’s hard to see the difference six years has made outside of, well

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  people tended to use about their majors and the people in their majors ... project in itself) so we took some of the patterns from our interviews and ... asked a bunch of MIT students to say some things about themselves and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  one of those classes that reminds students why they came to MIT in the ... through the bulb, it needs to be able to jump from one atom of metal to the next, all the way to the end of the bulb. Signal Generator in Power

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC ... went with another set of 2x2s, parallel to the floor and connecting the ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  to the solution, the climax, the moment of insight, breakthrough. That ... , when I had to spend the first night reading twenty dense pages of Plato ... that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015