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

  

  staying with Exelon for a while and making a rapid climb of the corporate ... staying and working in the Boston area for a while, but with one week to go ... coder as well as a mentor for a middle school team, and I loved the entire

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  . Thank you for allowing me to be a part of this space and of your lives. ... We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... med school and make negative $30,000 a year). While it doesn't seem like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  for spring semester and beyond. A cursory application of our discussion ... major (21S) in Writing and Mathematics, a second major in 6-3 (Computer ... might be interested in and ended up with a six-page document. Each set of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  restaurant for ages. The facade is a simple and unassuming; white brick with ... happen around the city and for once I don't feel like an intruder or a ... some trolleys here and there. MIT is pretty centrally located for a lot

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a night or two, and fell in love with it. I returned it the next week ... for other departments) with questions about psets and/or life decisions ... . Mystified, I tore off the flap, and a brand new book slid out. I yelped

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  student IDs, looking around with their parents, hauling boxes up to their ... like a freshman, i.e., to be naïve and excitable. And there ain't nuthin ... Orientation is some ice breakers and a 90-minute safety presentation. But this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  ) when the door behind me flung open with a bang and a hat was pulled onto my head (with more of a "swoosh" than a bang.) The hat looked like ... oscillator. Sophie '14 and I are both taking 8.03, a class called "Waves and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  , celebrations, and sometimes songs. They are also a natural point to look back and ... ambitions), become a lawyer (wrong), and be married with kids within 5 ... people you'll be friends with. Look for communities that you're excited to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... bummed friend, or helping a frustrated underclassman with a pset at 3am ... for MIT?" My mind went blank. Qualified? What a strange word. I thought

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete ... other traits and end up, as a side effect, with a disproportionate number ... 'm a huge fan of statistics. I read 538 and Football Outsiders every day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  corners on campus for three hours in a room with one piece of paper and a ... nothing else and with no one else! (plus being on my ring comm, in a way ... Comm 2020 loves you!!) and a student-facing-business-person-that-works-for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  admission officers ("adcoms") are not looking for "standard" answers, and you ... application looks like (it really doesn't look that different, ha) and I've been ... just to go ahead and be honest with them (well, you should be honest in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  growth for me, and a big part of my goal in becoming a math major. My ... a translator between fields, to be an avenue for the ideas, tools, and ... story of both threes and infinities. We will start with some of the threes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  's License" means taking 1) Sailing, 2) Pistol, 3) Fencing, and 4) Archery for ... since my freshman year, and I just asked Grace to take a photo of her list ... -nighter (for fun!) - for fun, or not for fun, I think I had a bit too many of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  late working multiple nights in a row and it culminated with me dropping a class. It's been a hard few weeks for my friends too, with the long ... 's also been a rough few weeks for the MIT community overall, with the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  . By now Ifemelu feels like a friend, and the week I spend with her each ... Network. An episode of a show called Lupin the 3rd had just started, and ... , 2020, it has been full-fledged “Life with Riley” for my family and me. I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  for kicks, let's revisit Junior Fall for a sec, and see how all that ... course catalog and fill out a study plan and follow all the guidelines ... classes; meeting with your academic advisor for more approval and signatures

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Sidequest 9: Build a thing. I built (with a LOT of help) a shelf for my loft ... with all my final exams for the semester and had been admitted into my ... for a long time. Realistically, it’s my freshman year in college, and I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how ... created in 1945, and intentionally made available in a 600-pound, 3,000-watt ... few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  uses sonar; and a line-following laser cutter. I worked with three teammates to make a presentation, look-alike model, and two working models ... for a group photo and moved short people to the front. "We need Concert

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023