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  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  , especially when I often didn’t have company in the dining halls. Meals have ... ended up convincing me to do [annotation note=" Real analysis is offered ... nudge, the “even if you don’t…,” and the offer to help me write an email

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  about it sometimes. They still have the McCormick Hall sign that he stole ... , comparative government..) that weren’t offered in our limited curriculum. I self ... touched upon by anything in her high school’s class offerings, but who

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  down the tunnel is the basement of Random Hall. Farther down still is the ... hall,” Housing says. “One freshman per hall,” Housing says. “One student per hall,” Housing says. “You are alone.” Sadun ‘17 You open your email

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  internships. Get an offer for an internship. Get another offer for an ... . Tell social media about it. Put the offer deadlines on your calendar. Ignore the deadlines for a week. Fret over which offer you'll take. Weigh

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -fridge, it had belonged to a tEp member living across the hall from me. We both ... chose to do a Southeast-Asian-themed array of flavors, offering ube ... the establishment of McCormick Hall in 1963, there were only 50 beds on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 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.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... Hall but I’m typing it from a fancy but empty apartment in East Cambridge

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  can determine whether you’re offered admission to a school that have ... a lot to offer the world. If you were rejected somewhere, that ... offer it. That can be a painful realization to confront, especially if a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  anything in this large lecture hall. The night begins with Brian C. ’19 ... upperclassmen on our hall warns me about overcommitment. They encourage me to ... lecture in room 1-190, one of the biggest lecture halls on campus, filled

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Online Tools Additional Opportunities that Offer Financial Aid ... .mit.edu Description: A public library of courses offered by MIT with publicly available ... : Code.org  Link: code.org Description: A free website that offers a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  .] # I got up, drank water, wandered around the halls. My jeans were ... sitting down to do the next physics pset. She offered to pset together, but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus ... , with its huge glass atrium, and the famous contemporary Simmons Hall

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  lecture halls. It was a pretty popular class, with over 400 registered ... offered frequently throughout the week for multiple hours at a time, as well ... was hopeful. Upon entering the lecture hall, Joe and some TAs passed out

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  discretion in being out, and to offer a more comprehensive view of LBGTQ ... my hall or from my club and someone looks up and asks ""wait, are there any straight people here?"" Like, I didn't live on the ""gay hall"" and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  one twenty") - lecture hall located near the end of the Infinite Corridor 10-250 ("ten two fifty") - Newly-renovated lecture hall in the ... one hundred") - large lecture hall located just off the Infinite 34

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  Hall, my dorm, and I ventured in there during Orientation Week. I didn ... got an offer letter. I spent that summer interning in Google’s Los

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  possible within the dorms. Even within East Campus, there are some halls I ... dorm with a dining hall will add a significant additional charge to your ... social experience of bumping into old friends in different dining halls

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  . 9:07 PM: Javi pulls everyone in the hall into his room to watch his ... called "The Thing That Happened to Moji". Taking place entirely in the hall ... :37 PM: Freshman wanders into hall looking for Moji. Immediately ask if he

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  get an offer (or don't) soon after your on-site. I can't speak too much ... wound up with 2 final offers at the end of it all. I actually applied to ... of job offers, but honestly, most people around me are in the same

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built ... to hall, but Winnie was right. It took an hour to get everyone packed

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023