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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 ... year ago, and it was bizarre again this past summer, to see some of my best friends walk down Killian Court and out of my day-to-day life. All

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

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

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... because I’ve had to sheepishly check the MIT map saved on my phone more recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part

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

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

  

  , so it’s nice to be in an environment where having fun together outside ... as someone who was at first hesitant to the idea. Despite the ... interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read

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

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  . But I think I've managed to fumble together an assemblance of a life ... stick together. To my friend (if you are reading this), If you really ... school because of its arbitrarily bureaucratic hoops. To give you an idea

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross ... needle and different colors of thread. I took an instant fancy to it. Why ... listening to books. People seem to enjoy what I make and the joy of others

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  California, who likes to devour niche fan wikis for video games she doesn ... gone,[/annotation] and MIT is coming back to life. Students are back on ... starting, with so many cool things to be learned; and as of today, the world

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in ... – they’re fuzzy, often hard to express, and even harder to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  together in an unprecedented way to be there for one another, to take care of ... community came together to protest and put on a fight until permissions were ... homeless and refugee populations: A group at CSAIL is coming together to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  way, you won't have to worry about throwing it together when the time ... womb." Which of these people will be able to land an undergraduate ... . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  to come together and cook food together, the Assassin’s Guild would ... I retrained Robo-CJ to write haiku. This is coincidentally very ... Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... don’t make an identity, right? Yet I find it so, so hard to view other ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• 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 different one. Sam told me that he was having trouble choosing what to do. He

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  together before the hackathon (which was allowed at this competition) to ... ). Then we got to cutting PVC, fitting the pieces together, and bending plates to put together our walker. Left & Above: Sherry and Jasmine

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  to the 12/9 MIT Class of 2023 Ice Skating Event Cami: Tweet on how AI ... controversial, I send to my group chat. Here are some of those things. December 1 Cami: A link to vote for my classes and the blogpost Aiden: Normeo and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  of how many people work together to make it happen. I already ... similar program to Splash. Except, you know, it's virtual. And the ... directors of the program. The why game Teach anything, learn anything

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  ” party, people from MIT went to Yale for the Harvard-Yale football game. I ... color? Perhaps you still have the ability to see color, but let’s pretend ... ? Would you even see it? How would you react to it? Maybe, even if you had

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... -it note (it was the second draft, apparently), this: I think it’s safe to ... realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  's currently working on a video game. Spring 2009 to Spring 2012: Ben Y. '12 ... information I've had to piece together. Also, I wish I took better notes, rather ... from owner to owner, like the couches, the round table, some of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  TV together in lounges, but also in their rooms to unwind. What matters ... , I have often referred to The Blogfather's advice, and some of his ... . As I get ready to graduate, I wanted to share how I experienced Ben

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018