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

  

  this post were taken with a compact camera that I carry in my pocket.  I'm ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... Cambridge, and a whole lot more. So without further ado, 10 reasons why MIT

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  don’t, however, use this as a checklist of things you have to do to get ... many things out there that I can't fit in a single blog post, so while I ... Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn't ... count.) Go on dates. Don't feel like every date has to turn into a relationship. Don't date someone your roommate has been in a relationship with

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  it back within a week. Dumbledore: Good. If you don’t, I will find out ... don’t I send her a copy. Me: *blown away by how nice people can be ... ’s right. I’ve reached out to a number of physics professors (I can't speak

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  AM, a pset due at noon, and a lab due at 5 PM. You haven’t started ... of a cry but don’t know a good place for it, I’ve got you covered ... pictures in the comments! I personally haven’t had a good cry yet, but when

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  built a freakin' nuclear reactor didn't get in to MIT, what chance do they ... of them built a nuclear reactor! I don't mean to discourage anything ... else in the world. In other words, you didn't waste a single solitary

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

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  open, I lay on my bed—a strange feeling emerged. I didn't care for work ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... me, and that you enjoy the read. ---------------------- It was a rare

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  homemade explosives / launchers / fire / etc. I'm sure there are a bunch of ... maybe 300 parents (lol indeed) I'm also a big fan of SEGFAULT: Which ... Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... factor controlling the admissions process. Suppose, for a moment, we didn't ... didn't, and that's not a good decision", it's really just arguing over

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  ; Yes, that is a Ford Model T, hanging from the roof. The car, which ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  thousand cookies, that's a lot of cookies. I don't think you realize. That is ... I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two ... ever a Bad Idea. Bad Ideas is a weekend festival thrown by East Campus

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  just a few months or years older than me. I wasn't convinced I was a ... there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the ... along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  it this far if you didn't have someone in your corner. For some it is a ... Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  highlighted for me is that I just haven’t come across a lot of great resources ... point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group ... enrollment of each outstanding new class. While I don't want to minimize my

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

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  AudreyRose, who didn’t come from a Greek-affiliated family but knew people ... at MIT and was starting to accept that joining one wouldn’t be a ... didn’t believe that joining a D9 organization would be a possibility. So

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like ... ."]MIT[/annotation] work experience. There are a lot of blogs on UROPs already, so I won't ... , it doesn't hurt to have a noncommittal role that others are willing and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... that. there was a region called the no-sail zone, so you couldn't point ... go is a straight line, that doesn't mean you should take it. instead

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is a struggle: their patent was for an "Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  friends: 1) sleep—if you don't sleep you will cease to function as a human ... multiple times and i promised i would write up a longer answer. the question ... ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the initiation of a two-year renovation plan, but house team was still emailing us ... , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024