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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing ... awesome responses I got. Jenny R. ‘15 Eli [D. ‘15] and I painted our door ... warp and stitch them together). The class is super cool! I made a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  being that I can’t do it on P/NR.   I should talk about my writing ... The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had ... coursework, the realization that I had to drop a class, and the good sense to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  my own story of how unnecessary all that stress can be. Back when I ... Remember when I said that we're human after all? That's still true. And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  Rhino, the software I'm most familiar with, you can use the Box command ... on high heat. I use 1 bouillon cube per cup of water, but you can use ... any part of it! I'm also a big fan because of how many vegetables I can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  (Condensed pre-word: CJ pens without constrained phenomenon within comments. Perhaps written clearer? Proceed warily.) Campus Preview Weekend, commonly pronounced/written “CPW”, progresses. Welcome, current prefrosh, welcome! CPW’s putative weather contraption prevents…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  mostly I go by stephlin, steph or “yoooo.” I’m currently finishing up my ... Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... (as you will soon see…). I’m incredibly excited to be going to Oxford

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  complaining and hunting down unhealthy free food. I can deal with it." And then ... displacement I can’t quite explain—like whatever was cycling around me in MIT has ... The week after my semester at MIT ended, I was accompanied by this

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  was one of those kids. I made it here. You can too. ... From the moment I became an MIT Admissions Blogger, I knew I'd write this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  served hot, if it is, I will just vomit, if not I can scarf it. SI ... I will take all the help I can get. it's a ~journey~ best trekked with ... as well relish in it.  To quote the above almond can that I snacked

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  ’s eye, in front of which I unfortunately can’t make out my sights, even ... following lesson about myself: I can do good work under pressure, if I manage ... weaknesses (working under pressure) turned out to be something I can be good at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  i participated in my last admissions telethon early last week! it was great to send out warm fuzzy greetings, but i received one question multiple times and i promised i would write up a longer answer. the question

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  you received. I can't (and don't) expect any of this to change how you ... Ben Jones' famous "It's More Than A Job" post from March 2006. I've read ... heartfelt. A few weeks ago, I had an epiphany of sorts. I finally experienced

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  grouped with seniors in the MIT people directory. Similarly, I can’t know ... content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the ... Destiny kitchens, my room, Cory’s room, and Random Hall desk, I downloaded

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  building a portfolio of work that I'm proud of until I can (maybe) do ... I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  still tell my friends about that conversation. I can still use it in ... . I can’t stress this point enough. All-nighters can work (see #6). But, beware of the ageing process—most seniors I know can no longer pull

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  that I can’t always control the things that matter to me. This year I ... best as I can remember, it was three cups water to one cup barley for the ... again in the evening. I like oatmeal. You can add walnuts and bananas and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  strange but in the short-term, this minute, I am glad because I can sit here ... can be recalled but never relived. I am grateful to the students, the ... I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  't. ******************************************************************************************************************************************* As you can see by my post count, I'm new here. One of the things I ... applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure ... I've been working on my grad school apps lately, when I'm not busy

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006