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

  

  we have wacky (modern? postmodern?) buildings, the best river views in ... is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , using the most comprehensive, unbiased data available to me (which is ... restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring ... , the probability of A given that B has happened or is true is equal to

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

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... feeling to the rest of the nervous system. When whatever blockage is removed ... move you. This is frigidity. There's the feeling of lying in bed and not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the most profound. Ever since I officially left the Admissions office this ... ’ve mostly been thinking about the past and saying goodbye. And I thought that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was ... , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general ... Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  . [...] In addition to the term’s traditional associations of being masculine ... campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... cool opportunities around campus. this email was in the last category

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  dangling in the air, wondering what it’d be like to walk on the ceiling ... using the other bathroom closest to my room, which is an entirely normal ... browsery in the second floor of Hayden library because I wasn't ready to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... Fair. The fair is held every year at MIT, and Adam's award (a trip to a ... room is covered in things that fly -- planes hanging from the ceiling

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... incredibly rejuvenating when used correctly. In fact, this seems to be the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  measures, support networks, just seems to have gone out the window in favor ... humbled me so much, this semester. I don’t know what’s going on in the ... ’t even have the salty tears to show for it. I’m sure I was hosed in past

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• 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 ... very near by who is extremely good at it and will, in the vast majority ... -digit weather in just a sweatshirt and a hat is probably not the best idea

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  , too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies ... someone had the bad idea to run the test in the East Campus courtyard, I ... “The winter has come. The days are dark, cold, and dreary. There is

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... this is by dressing up! My living community, 3E in Next House, decided to ... , I was actually able to look around at the people in the room. What I

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  snowboard and don't even need to take lessons and in the ice skating PE class ... a little beyond the standard "it's okay to make mistakes") it is not ... that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to

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

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  classes I wanted to take in the fall. Then, as has happened the last few ... went from this:to this: ...which is quite the leap. (The pictures are ... .72 Vision in Art and Neuroscience. The last one is sort of the reason why I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... changed to toothbrush, if you happen upon me anywhere in the greater Boston ... his parents, to highlight the isolation one feels in returning to a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  mostly gone you have oats. The cooked oats stick to the pot, but they come ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  .   I guess, in the end, this is what I'm trying to say. MIT is hard ... student does more harm than good. This is the first year I've gotten to ... the book that was going to be covered in lecture, go through online

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008