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

  

  that a PhD would be the most fun thing, because I love both learning and ... and features into our cars. I would advise freshmen to make a solid ... magnitude easier than MIT. Sometimes I miss MIT, but then I remember how

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  the ticket they would say the color. I along with my friend Karen had ... Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the ... Comm was a HUGE time sink, it was time I would rather have spent doing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  heavy hip hop and dancing person, when it comes to parties I would ... So quite recently I made a post on Facebook about a few things I had experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  official website, and here's the Wikipedia page. This year, the Ig Nobel ... by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Boston but I am pretty sure it would not fly with campus police. But if ... So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
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  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  set opposite a skull, which I made while learning how to use chisels ... promised. I decided I wanted to make a sword. How better to combine dragons ... ="84022" /] reflection After finishing the project, there are a few things I would change

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  would be [what major? undecided?]. 2. I will be graduating as [what major ...  Credit For Reddit, when Alyssa and I baked a bajillion cookies and enticed ... describing their majors. As they munched on cookies, they told us about how

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
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  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  semester. But, and I would like to emphasize this, this is not everybody ... college apps, you would be sadly mistaken. Once you get to college, you ... because the application process can be somewhat of a crapshoot. I'll add a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  , they developed some digital media literacy – what I would argue is the ... helping out with and would have LOVED to take if I was unfamiliar with ... , how I ended up talking to Elizabeth about helping out with some other

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  . Experiment with your writing style. Approach it differently from how you would ... ' froyo (instead of buying my own -____-| | |) cuz I think one spoonful with ... is uniquely yours (I would write, "write with your soul" but I thought

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any ... realized that I would never again get a chance to show all of you my room, so ... was running out of groceries, and I didn’t want to buy much more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  the kitchen for a snack and everyone is there. “I should be asleep,” you say. They answer, “So should we.” You don’t remember how to sleep. You ... , but you know they are your friends. You buy potato chips at Verde’s and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  my day into a single statistic, which is how much work i got done, how ... what mit’s would be, because i didn’t want to think about it. i didn ... . it was three years ago that i learned how to cry without sobbing. you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• 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…

  

  , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be ... ! Here's more of your questions: Nihar queried: I was wondering how and ... help. Mike has one question: I have one question: How do people normally

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  would be fierce. Emotional attachment aside, how is the dorm physically ... yet there's a common kinship. I am awestruck by how many stories I can ... yesterday[2]. I am awestruck by how many incredibly awesome alumni I meet who

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
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  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know. I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the ... : save people’s names with how you met them and how you relationally know

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  inspired them to visit me more than they would have if I went to UW ... would go ice fishing for northern pikes and then dissect them. How has ... ) and poked their heads out, because I would hear people behind me gasp

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ’ll begin with a disclaimer. The experience I talk about here is how I ... , I was back in the classroom coteaching my next class, How to Read a ... challenge of the class was explaining how markets worked. I don’t think we did

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  few months since I started blogging. I thought I'd record how it ... take the T to Malden Center, and buy lunch at this Chinese place I know ... talk for hours about Stardew Valley and how email works and Clover. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
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  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  think my emotional guard would have been more “up”. I’m telling you now so ... in this blog post, and I realized that unfortunately, no matter how ... Opinions Disclaimer: these are my personal beliefs, things I would probably

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018