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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.

  

  city above. Ia, Ia, Cthulhu fhtagn! Photos attached. Then, for 6.815, we ... :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I ... ) with tape. This is a sign I made for my floor; it twinkles and stuff

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

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

  

  were given a budget of $100 to order parts needed for our project. The ... much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... Class In January, I made the last minute decision to sign up for 6

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  document, and I tried for several hours to determine which variables could best predict my chances for March. I’m going to tell you now what I wish ... keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... 't even mandatory for you anymore and I have no idea what's going on with ... remainder of your prefroshly days, for once in my brief but glorious

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  . Splash, for example, happens for one weekend every November, and it's aimed ... anything. Just check the course catalog for Splash 2019, with classes like ... one-weekend program in March, but it's for middle schoolers instead

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... -random order. ____________________________________________ Day 5: Give MIT ... School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Events

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the ... kitchen and burning my nostrils—the event organizers had managed to order ... taste other things for the rest of my life going forward... After that I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but ... to wear jeans. Nice things are for the early birds.   The easiest thing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  into mere 250 words. In order for me to see what a 250 word word limit ... -Ray order, Mr. Park searched in vain for Radiology in a blinding flurry of ... You Do For Pleasure ("pleasure" - 100 words), Department at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... (sounds so official, right?). I made the decision to apply for the Rhodes ... Finalists attend the cocktail party on Friday night in order to meet each

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  sense that I was being productive—what food we would order for a House ... semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  to the extent —  and only for the reason —  that it is “narrowly ... students of certain races in order to redress historic or contemporary ... legally prohibited for decades. As the law stands now, the only reason we

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  the epic e-mail failure of po14 last spring. Look for Evan's blog about ... lie), dance practice, MedLinking almost everyone on my hall for some ... them with our queries;),though I think that wont be possible for someone

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  blog for MIT admissions while actually at MIT...) I write much more ... New Mexico at a six-week astrophysics program for High School students ... , waiting for the blogger application to appear. I knew that one of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  school English Lit. education in order to install diskloads of nerdly lingo software on your language processors. So, for the gentle edification of ... , as explored by Einstein et. al., is especially useful for sublimating

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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llmzLHExcnw We did a group order for lunch from Flour Bakery and Cafe, which, as ... ordered food left theirs sitting on the floor for a bit. I decided I was ... This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  happily sleep for longer.I  never pulled an all-nighter during my time at ... late.  What is something that you take for granted?    Bryan: I ... them to make that a reality takes a lot of energy and thinking for me

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  beautiful summer day in Boston[/caption] I stayed in Boston last summer. For ... three main housing options (listed below in order of increasing personal ... East Campus (EC) and Burton Conner House (BC) for summer rent (the other

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  for 21W.758 aka. MIT.616). I'm usually really bad at talking to ... course) for the blogs after the semester's over, so I'll write more about ... can't wait until Christmas break.   1:00pm arrive for meeting at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  , for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my ... bicycle has several benefits, especially in a city like Boston. For one ... can be deceptive. For example, Massachusetts Avenue, which bisects the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010