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

  

  family of MIT to be famous for how we treat people: famous for sympathy ... are tentatively up to for the next five years, what they are excited for ... excited for—and I’m giving a talk on plane crashes to one of our internal

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

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it ... are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week before my eligibility for student employment runs out, and I vaguely recall

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  ....very soon..." One of many lessons I've learned is that waiting for things to ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch ... ?). But then when you pop up and think back to just a few months or weeks

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  and decided to make pakaprow for the MANY people that ate our daily ... , but I had never had to accommodate for so many different food ... note='a weekend where admitted students visit MIT to experience a ton of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part ... . (Warning: I’m about to wax philosophical for what will probably be several ... plans for college life - what course I wanted to be, what dorm I wanted to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... else we still need to do before everyone leaves: pick our songs for next ... the next."]early[/annotation]to class, for the first time in possibly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  tea shops to choose from, with the best prices in town (although I still ... expectations for my first oceanic viewing as well. When I first got to the Boston ... fascination for bodies of water (Charles River <3), and returning to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  I really really really wanted to go to MIT. The love for that place I ... Flash back to four years ago from this upcoming March 14th. I ... :24pm. I sluggishly made my way upstairs to my PC and log on to my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  (seriously) and tons of other invisible-to-me security measures were enacted ... that we immediately headed for, only to realize that we weren't nearly ... for CPW last year) is a photographer for The Tech and was forced to hang

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  see me with studs for eyes, I am singing the song which gives birth to ... back into the corporeal world disoriented, only for me to hand you a ... depths for hours, but it refuses to go away. Kim D. ‘18 The MIT Media Lab

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT ... running for too long, and your water bill goes up. Leave it to me I talk so ... something that's meant to last for a short time, like a one-off event that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  . It also was scheduled to be taken offline in June 2020 for renovations ... later find that the autonomy, convenience, and lower price of cooking for ... opt to cook for themselves and the drop off in who uses meal plans is so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  want to work on satellite and spacecraft controls for NASA, and I ... useful to society.   I think I would be happy as a controls engineer for ... the questions that this blog post attempts to answer, for mostly selfish

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  interactions could lead to the development of better treatments for ischemic ... screen among known drugs for necrosis against a potential drug to see if ... to Work 9:00–Arrive in Lab! Switch media for cells 10:00–Start

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  , one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree ... Knowing Things, it is still demoralizing when you need to be hand held for ... thinking that it might just be better for us to stop taking course 6 classes

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... , even if i looked forward to it for weeks. three. "how do you sail, then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... privileges to stay in the course. I actually wasn’t sure what to expect for ... because for most people, including me, the deterrent to reading and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I ... well as for those of you who do not. I challenge you to bring your plans

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  this, my mom and I went to Michaels and went a little sale-crazy. We got ... playdough, and now carry around a little playdough for me to fidget with when ... cold shower Listening to music/painting/art Go for a walk or run

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014