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  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  who were really really good at not falling as well. I wasn't one of ... God that the snow at the bottom of the hill is soft (it wasn't. The real ... with supposedly clever sayings about boxes of chocolates, games of cards

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  when I was little (at 3 or 4 years old, my grandmother took care of me ... of course say, “we are Americans”. But when I looked around at my ... ’t believe I was really Chinese, always looking only at the color of my skin

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both ... ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies ... climate of despair and misery, we finally go crazy. All rationality is lost. We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  at them at different times, and lots of different methods of framing ... Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex ... , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  at the end of the road. I also have finally found the right balance ... family and contributing at home.  How many hours of sleep did you get last ... whenever I'm reminded of a particular friend which is pretty frequently. At

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  . It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks ... communities, I often am asked something along the lines of the following ... question is not hidden within it at all, but barely-veiled, an unstated

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  living groups at MIT, including some absurd number of fraternities; about ... cheerleaders were talking about them at practice. Isa dressed up like a bunch of ... of student life at MIT?

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  (researching at a Department of Defense Research and Development Laboratory ... first place. At this time of year in many other classes, students are cramming as much into their heads as possible for midterms. At this time of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  you and other runners leaving at your time will sort of swirl, in a ... was happening in all of my courses, and all of my research, all at once. After a lifetime of being smart and good at school — the thing that had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  client at the end of the day, which was slightly terrifying (since our structure was out of PVC and not designed to support his weight at this point ... . At the end of the day, we won Honorable Mention! We were all surprised

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  at every turn. But, I knew how this would end, of course, because I ... and continued to work on my essay. At 3am, in commemoration of reaching ... . Believe it or not, I had to be up at 8:30am ahead of a 9am tour. I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East ... You trudge out of Walker after your third midterm this week ... wish is to go unfulfilled. You have another midterm tomorrow morning at 9

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  weren't tears of sadness, or happiness (at first). My eyes were just ... Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... (except the statistics in there, of course, have gotten even crazier - e

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  significant amount of forethought and editing. At least that’s what I tell ... thoughts at the end of each day. It’s gotten to the point where I walk across ... This blog is about my hometown, which I filmed a little bit of last

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  took a bad hit at the start of January. The anxiety that made 2021 a ... , and all of its inevitable pain is hurtling towards us at frightening speed. It’s possible that my anxiety is the product of being at a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of ... that seemed perfect at the age of 18, that I actually feel as though my ... ! *** Precisely one year ago today I sat drinking coffee at a Dunkin Donuts with one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  thing tends to happen. At the image of eating a little bit of roach, I ... content warning: discussions of roach uwu Roaches are curious little ... a roach spawn point for about a week. Most of them however, were

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023