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

  

  respectful, more generous, and more kind. The diplomas start at 3:23:45. See if ... program fake robots in a simulator…with the final competition being run on ... guaranteed admission into a program that grants a Harvard University diploma

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  of an undergraduate college degree. My friend, who I love very dearly ... . Essentially, I was trying to stop him from dropping out of college. Without trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  organizational skills during college.  That might have been okay in 2007.  In 2009 ... steered me through college as if it were leading me somewhere, rather than ... college students like me.)  Also, I'm going to call out Course 2 here: no

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  . Not fake, just flat. Like I've been talking to cardboard cutouts and ... , in anonymous forum posts to college applications to conversations with ... three days earlier this week Cambridge became cold. The twenty-five degree

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
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  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  right away, and it might feel like nothing could go wrong. But in college ... to complete the cycle. It’s the college circle of life. You will also ... college—every connection you make, no matter how brief, will leave a mark

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
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  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  B. '24 College—and particularly undergrad—is a liminal space, or at ... becoming.[/annotation] And after bloggers receive their diplomas alongside ... social network sites as we know them today, and so a college admissions

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
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  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  , not something an college bestows upon you. Last year on Pi day, I wrote ... your happiness. College is the next step, but it didn't necessarily have to be MIT. You're going to have a wonderful, meaningful college

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  , collected from my agenda, and others have “fake” data, collected from my memories ... stopped worrying about my agenda (and school) during my college application

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I ... . Moving into a college dorm is a new experience with new responsibilities ... make you smile on your worst days. 3) College isn't a magical place

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
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  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  age—you, the readers maybe, the future classes of MIT or colleges ... is the top school in my district, and gives a lot of college credits ... there. College wear... Right now, I've got West Point and [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020