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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.

  

  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

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  East Side, I’ve adjusted well to low-income living. Stuyvesant High

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , in the comments section. Not the same few colleges: Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. I visited here for the first time this summer, and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  , which is not in grocery stores in the east apparently?? "]Tapatio ... reach Sheepwash, a town with four streets -- East Street, South Street ... been barred from her university campus due to Coronavirus. I had been

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  advertises 33 majors for the Bachelor of Science degree, including a few programs no longer offered (like Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering ... undergraduate majors MIT offers has nearly doubled since, the essence of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  , and the varying degrees in between. I always recommend driving (or ... Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood's new policy, which states that "walking and ... states and municipalities competing for federal highway funds to include

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  Stanford gym in my wallet, for whenever I'm in the Bay Area. No one tell ... building, and she was kind enough to offer me a few square feet for the ... project armed with only two critical theory degrees, a cordless drill, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  . My options, as I saw them then, were a local public university where ... local university and gone on to do some pretty cool things. I expected him ... , I opened an email. It was an unexpected, unsolicited job offer from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  my UROP research at another university’s undergraduate research ... of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had ... stayed in that mental state for months, or even years. Their warm presence

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  simply goes from one predetermined state to another. An NFA, in one sense, does: it has options on which state to move to, and it could move between states even if there was no input. Does this make its behavior

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  this to be true, but most students are unwilling to state this outright ... wrong area. Many colleges and universities value multiple forms of ... college or university because they are likely to both take advantage of the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  alumni said my name."][/annotation] Figure out an entire new city, state ... my experience, but they’re often more universal than you’d think.  It ... ended up convincing me to do [annotation note=" Real analysis is offered

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  said "And now, the President of the United States, Barack Obama!" (not an ... conversation (meaning 90 degrees of Tang will sever a conversation clean in two ... to be in the same room as the President of the United States. There was

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in postwar Canada") The Kansas and Colorado State Boards of Education ("for ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  senior year of high school at the Penn State Schreyer Honors College as an ... years. At Penn State I was at least a year younger than everyone in my ... . I didn't relate to the predominant culture of the university, and I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  took me around the East Campus dorm (motto: “the weak shall be eaten ... this--I found East Campus pretty terrifying as a prefrosh. So did a few

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  train to visit friends at other East Coast schools or a flight to another ... the East Coast, in Massachusetts, right now. So try and act like a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  in East Campus waiting for me. In 30 days, I will fill it as a wide

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  we complained that there were several nodes with odd degree in the ... off my boxes in the East Campus lobby on Tuesday morning, they didn ... degrees out. I didn’t have my good jacket with me, because it was in a box

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  fraternity is Alpha Phi Alpha, founded in 1906 at Cornell University. In the ... universities, namely Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA), Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity ... have that compared to the other HBCUs and universities she was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020