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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  a laid-back game that gives you a great chance to socialize while you ... holes. Get ready to get lost in the sauce with the Sauce Boss! 13 ... pick the optimal set of juices to buy. He can't buy pomegranate juice

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... freshman-Ceri three years ago. What started as a fun thought experiment to ... '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 / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  a rule I don't really pay attention to lists like that, except the ... I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in ... ambitious in job-hunting (may turn out to be a problem when I get out of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  the slides—throwback to 18.06. This 18-letter word—a ... ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... ;Fill out the forms to acquire a visa and mail my passport to the Swiss

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  take the T to Malden Center, and buy lunch at this Chinese place I know ... Floor Pi lounge is an adventure. We can take the T to Harvard, and buy ... or Drawphone or Skribbl. We could hop on a call and sing off-sync to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

   worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a ... drove my friends and I to MIT were so nervous. They wanted a detailed ... arriving to MIT would look like as a first year: Go to check in, and go where

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... , meal times. Summer residents contributed to a rotating cook ... of the MIT community (but my fellow MIT students were also a delight to

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

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ready to be sad. It’s like, you know when you’re going up stairs, and you take a step, expecting there to be more staircase, when there’s nothing but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in ... to work on a double major, pursue other interests, or, if you're like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  may very well be within five years that we start looking to buy a house ... of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ... the first time, which meant a lot of new logistics to sort out. I got to

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

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

  

  applied to college 2 years ago (2 years! I'm old :( ), I wrote over a dozen ... college essay. Many feel that there always needs to be a "moral to the story ... the qualities described above, I feel like I'm ready to tackle whatever

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize ... in a new way? Do you have no prior experience, and want to try ... recognize that everyone has to start somewhere. I had a little freak-out about

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... unexpectedly admitted to another program, which was also a dream, albeit a ... . Typically, these students ascribe this ambiguity to a set of questions they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make ... ’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ’s a weekend where high schoolers come to MIT and take classes about ... that list: Intro to Trading, a crash course about how markets work ... Andrew L. ’22, a freshman at the time, was gushing to me about how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a ... love having to set my body up precisely to execute a lift safely. I love ... ; sometimes, on the road [annotation note="I keep a stack of guest passes to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  to make sure. 10:06 AM: Wikipedia. 10:07 AM: Facebook. 11:45 AM ... . 9:07 PM: Javi pulls everyone in the hall into his room to watch his ... bathroom, the film centers around the thing that happened to a freshman named

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  . Money can't buy a pivotal moment to crush to smithereens your bad habits ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... marketable skills you acquire from college to land a job constitutes a good

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... sure to do that at some point. Also, an umbrella, a hat, gloves, a scarf ... 't need a laundry bag or anything to lug stuff down to the laundry room. You

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... example to all and lived a beautiful, full life. These are some snippets from my last conversation with him, which I was so lucky to film about a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018