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

  

  -3) Currently, I am looking for a software engineering job in the video game or ... Graduation The 2014s just graduated, but right now I want to take you ... was persistent into the summer and the following fall. It was bizarre a

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

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  games in batch, like rock-paper-scissors games from the terminal. I got ... isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But Java ... it in JavaScript. Well, that ended up changing. Over the past two years

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  gives you the confidence to take risks. A lot of MIT is fun and games, but ... you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... yourself how you spend your time and money. The school you choose in the next

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  stickiness. Cross stitching was the stickiest. File this post away under ... ? I suck at actual art. You know, the kind with shading, swoopy stuff ... listening to books. People seem to enjoy what I make and the joy of others

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  to meet with my friends, or I’m playing board games in the lounge, or I ... The bridge of one of my favorite songs goes: Malingap, buwis ... date. We were standing outside, staring into the surroundings. “It’s a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  while (read: the entire semester) since I’ve blogged about my thoughts and ... the sidequests I planned at the beginning of the year. Sidequest 1: Learn the building numbers. I would still consider this one incomplete

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  pass the time ended up being a 2000+ word stream-of-consciousness. So I ... , whether home is driving distance from MIT or halfway across the world ... 'll be happy to hear from you. 2) The first people you meet in a new place

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... just giving snapshots into MIT life. For the first couple days (or at ... over the course of the month and gradually show more bits of my life

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  games. My father owned an Internet Cafe when we lived in the Dominican ... chatted, I vented, I gamed, I put it all on the web where it still remains ... about the Hunger Games and the then-airing Legend of Korra. I started

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  September 2nd The round tables are blue, yellow, and green this year ... the fourth time I’ve sat on the Returning Student Luncheon panel of… the ... life experiences, and we’re here to talk tips and tricks, to tell the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  reigning champion of the visual speed game SET, constantly ‘challenging ... called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  Now that it’s August, the fall semester is right around the corner ... a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the ... as someone who was at first hesitant to the idea. Despite the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... , because the other night I slept at 9:35 PM telling myself that it'd just be ... 10:00 PM. He said that I should take the nap, so I did. I set an alarm

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... " their victim by finding them spoonless off the floor and tagging them ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours of your time wading through the endless linkbait that is mitadmissions

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... legs and walk the length of the car. As I headed back to my seat, I ... check, and I realized that they were probably staring because the center

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  conspiratory stigma about them, in which one must “game the system” to achieve ... anxious about the application process. JUST KIDDING! Absolutely everything I just said is a horrible lie. Here’s the truth: I have never taken

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  virtually everything, from the buildings to the academic buildings, is numbered? One reason I'm writing this entry is to help bridge the gap ... focus on the aspects of MITese that are (in my opinion) universal across

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  games as my preferred form of media, but I still enjoy the thrill of being ... 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

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

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

  

  , “OH RIGHT MIT LET ME JUST SAVE MY GAME AAAAAA” and then came the ... screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018