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  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... 'll write about the final product soon! (8) Because we get cool toys to play ... we have wacky (modern? postmodern?) buildings, the best river views in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... Light) almost exactly the size of the Pantheon in Rome. To get there from ... the most of what is available to you.   3. Grad school was tough

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  admitted to the class. Even though they are certainly right, I am quick to ... what institution is best suited to provide you with those experiences. I ... will provide the best foundation for admission to how does one actually

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  just get the library." Vincent Crabbe (Bella X. '25), to Neville: "Your ... . The best thing about the robes is that I've kept them after game end ... was pretty funny. A shadowrun is a challenge you beat to get into a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  work until the next time you have to kick your brain on for some project ... pull off the kinds of academic feats you're used to. Working full-tilt in ... start edging closer to the performance you're accustomed to and expect

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  get to the lightbulb moment, week after week. Being surrounded by other ... role is also held by faculty who identify as women) to a part of the ... , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  confused that they managed to get Simmons right but somehow messed up the MIT ... , a masters student (known affectionately by many as “Blue”) to get us ... getting ready to release the video was probably one of the most strenuous

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  to escape to is where I live and where I’m experiencing the unbelonging ... to impact this country, but is going to impact the world. I’m learning ... that. How did we let it get to that point? It’s not just the corporations

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  : what happens to your teeth when you get braces) with Andrea, one of the ... blogosphere. The MIT+K12 Videos Program is managed (and executive produced) by ... ) to make the best project iterations possible. Some major takeaways

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  . Whatever. Okay - this is the part where we get into the cheesy, reflective ... snowboard?" "Er, I try...") and falling is a good way to learn to laugh at ... a little beyond the standard "it's okay to make mistakes") it is not

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , is like when you have 10 minutes before your parents come upstairs to ... before the big event. I made sure to bring my ticket with me: On my way ... get in line. The ticket told me to get in line at 10:30AM. I got there

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas ... shots), not by proximity to the bull’s eye. Usually I aimed at the bull ... gun move with the body and the breath. You control your breath to

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

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  opinion piece in The Tech to complain. You get your Brass Rat. You joke ... chemicals in the mud. Your best friend is Course 6. All their friends are ... . After an all-nighter on campus, you try to make your way home through the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could ... should use to make your choices? What chance is there that the words that I ... about getting to the right answer quickly, spend more time thinking about

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first ... ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  AWESOME, perhaps the best, because it is on the rooftop. You get a panoramic ... sometimes your workout or run is punctuated by the click and conversation of ... your convenience :). Kano: Boston is an active city, and the gyms

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  everyone, even if they belong here. The best we can do is try to build a ... deluding yourself. So please stop harassing Matt; you’re not going to get the ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  teach you to think about computation, and in the same way, MIT is not an ... the premises quickly, chuckling lightly to ourselves, and my voice was ... Zeta Psi house. Since it was raining lightly, I sprinted to the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... 2019 The Tucson sun is sweltering, and the rubber of your shoes will ... ’s almost done, y’all. You’re watching the months go by and you know what

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  determinist by any means. But there is still something to the law of the ... selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is ... selective colleges, is really tough. It's hard to know how to gauge your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011