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

  

  , there is one sentiment that continues to be important for myself and many ... easy to get used to. It’s important to remember throughout your time at ... MIT UROP experience was important to me so I’m really excited to be

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

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  . Muti is far from the capital city. It takes a 9-hour bus ride to get to a ... for four hours to get to my father’s village in the countryside, and ... Writing after going to Ethiopia has always been impossible. When I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  wanted to spend 12 hours on 2.009 in one sitting again. [carousel image1 ... walls were attached to the gantry. At 10pm, I spent about an hour walking ... walk to lab was uphill BOTH WAYS"]12 hours of deep focus each day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  -you-were-looking-for-but-here-it-is-anyway take. Table o’ Contents
 The most important thing is to figure out ... again Is it better to go to MIT for undergrad or grad school? Important ... /bioengineering grad programs. 1. The most important thing is to figure out why you want

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  an important thing. Because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to get through ... good enough answer to give justice to what I feel about MIT. Instead, I prefer to think of MIT as malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  Allston, and to the Harvard Business School. Most importantly, though, if ... University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note="an important distinction is between the greater boston area and boston the city

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  where I was able to complete my pset. Managed to get two more hours of ... we keep doing these things, not because they're guaranteed to make us feel good But because failing to do them is guaranteed to make us feel

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  ’s posts from past summers - as she wrote, “sometimes MIT students like to do ... this year’s cohort of students applying to MIT to know that as well! If ... and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston." HIM: "Do you go to Harvard?" ME: "No!" HIM: "MIT?" ME: "Yes..." HIM: "Funny how Harvard and MIT kids always tell people that 'they go to school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  the lab gave her the stamina necessary to complete so many hours of ... way. The most important part of your job is to remove the roadblocks and ... Petey asked me to write something to kick off the big anniversary

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  now. I spent hours on Discord, talking to people I just said goodbye to ... One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  : haikubot has 497 victims, not 497 hooks i have more important things to do ... 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 / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  Vine The Scaly Vine has developed olfactory capabilities to guide it ... design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I need one more [annotation note="art class"]HASS-A[/annotation] to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  envisioned this as a 2 hour “game show” to entertain viewers.  As we hoped to ... actually took several hours, all told. Good luck if you do decide to go for ... , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The ... follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience ... students hail from every corner of the globe: New Zealand to New York City

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I ... you get something like this to happen? Final exams and projects are ... -semester classes. And, normally, you have to show up and actually take them, or

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 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…

  

  +. If you go to your professor's office hours, which they'll post on the ... , Burton-Conner's internet went out. Somewhat analogous to the power outage ... - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  creatively, and perhaps most importantly, we love to do all of these things ... out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate on that notion because it remains apropos today as students continue to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Events

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

  

  :47 Your Wibbly Wobbly Guide to Time Travel What happens in your future if ... Meditation Ever wanted to experience meditation? Come to this guided session ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  the chemistry olympiad. But between my almost two-hour commute to and ... ’s shelters, and how this inspired her to start her organization. As a result ... -worker.       This particular Twitter thread brought to light more context to Nadya

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020