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  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  "]viral[/annotation] and some remained fairly unread, but I *think* that most of them ended ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... Ave from across Lobby 7: always reminded me that wow, I go to MIT. And

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of ... is vines and fire escapes up brick walls, streetlights leaning against steep slopes on narrow brick and stone streets; it is hidden alleyways

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

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring ... even knew anyone who was in their 20s, but now you do, and I am here to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  AP classes and participated in extracurriculars but still didn't know ... immersed in experiences beyond compare, and that'll be all the justification ... and rebuild new ones. Money can't purge your fears out of you. That's a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on ... my advising seminar yesterday, and I’m currently trying to finish an 18

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it ... for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 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?

  

  while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago ... HELL"—the IHTFP-esque MIT motto of the 1930s—and hauled

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

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... the Earth’s shadow on the moon, and we’re all here, casting this shadow ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it ... lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  If you've never seen "Hackers" then you're depriving yourself and ... be Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science). This ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a while (read: the entire semester) since I’ve blogged about my thoughts and ... recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  --the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what ... stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1 ... her parents rather than herself, hiding all signs of struggle, and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... have glimpsed rejection and are already thinking about other schools. And others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  This semester I'm taking 4.110 Design Across Scales and Disciplines, a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten ... designers in various disciplines who work at different scales and lab sessions

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT ... published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution". It's rated 4.6 on Amazon, and it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In ... sprinter down the hallway, and can probably spot a fly a building away. He ... stinkiest little cat on hall and we love him. Anyways, one time, when I found

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  everyone else"]pods[/annotation] were a thing. My podmates and I cried in ... pushed back a year, letting me enjoy two and a half years at East Campus. Never before have I experienced such intense feelings of belonging and joy

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

      Early morning on December 5th, 2012, my family and I ... feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more ... application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and ... and we get out of bed We get dressed We clean up last night's mess And ... me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  Head over to /r/confession and you'll find this post lurking near the ... 'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be ... I'm really not that intelligent, and that there are many others who

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012