Everyone knows it's all about location. Here at school, it is no different. MIT as a campus has a great location. It sits on about a mile long river front section of the Charles River directly across from Boston (more specifically Back Bay in Boston). In this picture you an see Boston in on the right, the Charles river in the middle, and Cambridge on the left. You will find the heart of MIT's campus at the north end of "Harvard Bridge" which crosses the Charles (it's the longest bridge in the picture).
Here is the campus itself (MIT campus is in color, everything else is grayscale). Between the two maps, you can see the large amount of river front property that campus sits on.
The view across to Boston typically looks like this:
Which can be VERY distracting on a beautiful day. Luckily last week's weather was terrible, so I could keep my head down in my homework/class load.
