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

  

  Graduation The 2014s just graduated, but right now I want to take you back a year. This blog post is about and largely by last year’s Random ... Box CEO Drew Houston ‘05’s commencement speech, at 2:45:42, transcribed by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... 2003's The Recruit, Colin Farell's character was said to have ... ." In the movie version of Carl Sagan's Contact, Ellie Arroway was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college ... applicant's true voice when we read his or her essay. Not some perfect ... therefore, a connection. We can always tell when an applicant's essay has

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  3, my floor, seems to like movies. It’s how we relax. Our floor lounge ... ’m a huge fan of Christopher Nolan’s films - Inception is my favorite of ... made plans to attend. “It’s too bad I’m so busy this week,” I thought

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  time before graduation when a significant portion of the 2016s are in one

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before ... going to go out just before CPW, but that got canceled, so… Anyway, here’s ... like. It’s mostly a long strip: There’s west campus on the west, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  feeling? That’s another discussion.) On some days, I get almost nothing ... this pet theory. It’s not perfect, and I don’t really know how well it ... don’t really work that well immediately after a meal. So let’s add in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  ’t a career catastrophe. There’s an entire world out there that doesn’t care whether you got into MIT or not. I loved Eric’s post last year: don ... ’t help myself sometimes. But no matter how much we tell you to relax - let’s

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  use moments of confusion or disagreement to grow together. It’s a very ... work for committee. I was sitting in Dean Stu Schmill’s office, which has ... the Charles River. (You can catch glimpses of Stu’s office in some of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for orientation was from Alaska. While in Paris this weekend, Ling ’07 and I went to the…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on College Confidential: You know, I get sick of college admissions officers saying how they couldn’t accept so many…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  Book Expo America (BEA) and we were both attendants. My dad’s steadfast ... actually having to invest yourself in this battlefield of emotions.  There’s ... want to read this. And then there’s the bigger scope—trying to get the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  , MIT’s senior capstone mechanical engineering product design class ... audience members from around the globe. It’s the closest thing you ... rappelling from the ceiling of the auditorium; my team's involved a real

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... formula. It’s like trying to explain poetry using calculus. It would take ... her dream of becoming a teacher. It makes me think of one girl’s amazing

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  the Earth’s shadow on the moon, and we’re all here, casting this shadow ... week’s lunar phenomenon on the Charles. The Super Blood Moon Eclipse (as it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall ... taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It ... -250, one of MIT’s largest lecture halls. We emerged triumphant, carrying five huge tubs of Toscanini’s ice cream. Back in our original meeting room, we

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Did you know that President Sally Kornbluth, MIT’s 18th president, has sung onstage with one of MIT’s student acapella groups called the ... was everything you’d expect the President of MIT’s office to be – dark

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
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  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... around the city. The one I frequent the most is called Barton Springs. It’s ... has an amazing view of Downtown Austin’s silver skyline, which looms

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  -buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay. When people ask me “how’s MIT?” I answer something like “exhausting and overwhelming, but fun.” I don’t think that’s a ... date. We were standing outside, staring into the surroundings. “It’s a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019