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

  

  ! (9) Because the Esplanade is only a short walk from campus: and ... a day.  Let me know in the comments if there's anything in particular ... Cambridge, and a whole lot more. So without further ado, 10 reasons why MIT

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

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  all of our completed applications to them and they shipped the whole ... letters to the guidance office and have it packaged that way. If that’s not ... and the current is flowing west and a school of goldfish is exerting a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  . This is a nuance that I don’t think that many students, parents and ... credentials and supporting documents from which a composite is formed that enables the admissions office to determine whether an applicant is a good

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  dorm). DINING: this one is a major addition to the bill and an ... This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... the building, and closeness to campus, and I want to counter that with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  full of ambition and looking to make a name for yourself in the world ... they are just doing it to themselves," and that the reason they got so ... everything I could to win a Science Olympiad medal, despite the fact that our

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... . My only qualm is that it occasionally gives me a kernel panic, and I ... trip over the power cord. I’m a klutz. It’s important to me that my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  degrees) is now a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering ... fly. This is a place that is very conducive to taking these passions ... . Remembering that parents are watching, the focus changes to a short segment on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  settled into a comfortable rhythm, one that is distinctly different from the ... hating: do I really belong here? Is this where I want to be? And the truth ... it’s worth it, even when it feels unnatural. There is a value to faking

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  , and I had to take a break on the way there. But it was fine. I was in no ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very ... . If this was a movie, this would be the cue for me to cry. And with the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  longer, and not all that warm. W11 is usually the Religious Activities ... ’t really a race. Then there are the returners. Some leave to travel, some ... blossoms. The tablecloth is green, a bright spring green. People start to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve ... undergrads and found out that people tended to use certain frameworks for ... another major was their true calling. And there were descriptions that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  less intelligent, that the content is nearly the same, and one does not ... smart enough and that is tied to your worth. It’s tied to your worth and ... grown, or so I damn well hope.  # I went to a Q&A for the 2025s, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  , keeping the big picture in mind, and remembering that there are a lot of ... the first time, and in academia no one teaches you how to do that; she ... -Earth orbit to please swivel and collect photons from that galaxy over there; I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... work on developing a solution to the same challenge. This past weekend ... . It's a unique opportunity to put our engineering skills to the test and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  a given situation is unclear, and there will be times where the ... of this advice is not that your intent necessarily matters to the ... is easy to go on autopilot and just follow where the currents lead you

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  floor, and I've noticed that there's definitely a cycle: from 2ish to 7 pm ... that eight hours of sleep is a crucial part of keeping myself happy and ... , learning how to fail and bounce back from it. This is one of the big reasons

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... would to track Planetary orbits and pinpoint a planet's location in sky ... was tough, but I made some friends, and learnt to cope up with the new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... . The best part is that Tom and I didn’t have to follow the dress code ... walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  are Habesha”. “Habesha” is a term that refers to the ethnic group of ... to play with. At that time, I felt there were only these two types, and ... childhood trips to China, and the memories I had there. One time, we lived in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  be confused with the homonymous dorm. this is instead referring to a ... and pretending that you’re battling demons in order to get a better pump ... and nice natural light. LESS GOOD: The dorm is not that big and could

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024