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  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  program fake robots in a simulator…with the final competition being run on ... guaranteed admission into a program that grants a Harvard University diploma ... better in physical world classes over online classes), and I hear that this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  Congratulations! You’ve probably gotten into more than one college ... have a river view. I also can’t imagine a better a college town than ... ); Wolfgang Ketterle, physics (2001); Richard R. Schrock, chemistry (2005

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  the richest university in the world. Her campaign’s top priorities ... College Confidential reaffirmed a lot of these beliefs in high school. If you have not heard of College Confidential, good for you. College

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  that they could put more crap on roofs, including a cow (fake cow! fake ... ”) Center. Hackers have played to the strengths of the unique physical

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  to understand that it takes physical presence to build a home away from home. You need to be physically present to build meaningful relationships with your college family. This should have been as high a priority for me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  . Ultimately, next year instead of joining a purely research University on Physics, I joined [a technical college] as a Computer Science student. This ... gone to college all over country, few of them decided to take gap, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  to college is an important process for many people, and I'm not quite ... . Smaller and lighter than your choice of where to apply to college, but ... telling you about a steel fork? Well, at Lame-vard University, studying for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  from community colleges, and others find their way to MIT from private, public, and international universities. Some took a so-called “non ... transfer students: Gaurab Previous institution: Purdue University (West

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the ... research university. UROPs are technically a part of a larger [annotation ... colleges. MIT has some of its undergraduates give tours around campus while

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  you might not fall but things (like, say, your board, or your physics ... the unusually warm weather we've been having, it was actually fake snow

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  terms you may hear in college. It also may reference emotionally or physically abusive relationships. It is also, uhh, going to be a really long ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within books were my worlds, and the characters within those universes were my ... absorbed into a world on paper. College has effectively eaten up the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  campus of a community college, forty-five minutes from my house. It was a ... you apply to college, but that filtered projection of an imperfect ... ’t always consider that college was a thing. I remember sometime during

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... “participate” in Harvard College now. What’s even more exciting is now I have ... United States and the largest university library and largest private

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  into a slightly parallel universe: one where everything remains the same ... up - this parallel universe is also one where art transports you

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  prestigious school. My eyes were set on a good, local university that would not ... do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or other college) admissions ... 't actually hit me until Campus Preview Weekend, when I was physically on MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  physics prodigies since birth. I've talked to a number of them, and it doesn ... ? crisis. The path was pretty clear: love physics, be ridiculously good at it ... whether the Higgs boson exists or not, or the universe has an open or closed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  . Not fake, just flat. Like I've been talking to cardboard cutouts and ... , in anonymous forum posts to college applications to conversations with ... loss. Although the loss of a single year of college doesn't even come

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  most people."]'here comes a thought' from steven universe ... emotions we feel towards college admissions decisions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  plaintiff, about whether and how colleges and universities may consider race ... , Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), universities are allowed to consider race only ... — best known in nuclear physics — that suggests a minimum necessary amount

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023