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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  torn down forever, and there's a good chance that most of its culture can be restored, but this renovation is still impactful on each of the dorm's living communities. And that's why I'd like to showcase/preserve some of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  out. Maybe you're planning on pulling an all-nighter tonight and to ... geniuses, most of us are struggling just as much you are. And, as much as I ... de-stress. Avoid the junky finals food and eat well. Take care of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  last Thursday, and while I'm not big on getting dressed up, semiformal attire was "encouraged," so I sucked it up and put on a dress. I left Burton Conner with a group of other 09's: Adelaide, Rick, Cathy, and Laurie

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  and the obscene amount of print statements in my code, and JUST so the ... .009. I want to be back at MIT and swing on the rope swing in the East ... —ANYTHING— because that would make sense. I want to not sleep and give all of

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  By Ming Lu The Thursday morning of CPW, I woke up bright and early ... taken some pictures of McCormick; the dorm was very bright and clean ... friend who was a current MIT student friend who offered to take her and any

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of ... opinions and create my own war in the comments. My biggest issue with "end-of ... movies and also rarely go. Part of that is the curse of streaming has

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy ... got back from a year on leave from MIT. I live right near work, and a ... writing, and biomaterials: tissue engineering. I really like all of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  anecdotal evidence. I haven’t tried many of these, and you should try none of ... obvious dangers of “doing science while drunk” and “alcohol poisoning”, lab ... strong acids and bases with a drinkability rating of “No, please don’t,” or

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  of the room and find a seat, you hear a hushed anticipation that swells ... " fashioned out of string, ping pong balls, and what looks to be a wooden frame ... pong balls, I'd probably be getting a lot more out of them. And honestly

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  of 24 and Heroes I want to see Jack Bauer take on Sylar. I don ... " has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless ... Thursday and the last day of classes was the Thursday before, so I had a week

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  the cool kids, and it's great because I get to customize my planner the way it fits me best. This is one of the pages I've made for myself ... left last week's assignments here so you'll look at this and think, "wow

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the ... in front of MIT, approximately in front of the Sailing Pavilion and ... locations on and around campus, including the Baker House and Senior House

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  highlighted those changes and sent me off on another period of intense personal ... foundational paper. It was a style I haven’t had in any of my MIT classes yet and ... planning and lots of dedication, I was able to keep making progress on my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  things I have been doing both inside and outside the confines of MIT. I ... .36 (Neurobiology of Self) which is a class that focuses on the neural mechanisms of ... about applications and a mEng, my GPA and the quality of my research

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  lot of mail. At least a dozen buckets of mail came in this morning, on ... professors, and one of them read: "X worked in my lab this summer. She worked ... Truffle-Making, and am currently missing the OrigaMIT Paper Folding) I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  , providing a lot of room for resting your arm and writing on paper, but this ... 's utilized for a bunch of classes (including many for freshmen) and is ... 't that comfortable. A remodel of 10-250 means new and, hopefully, more

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  in your every waking moment during college. And neither of those ... There have been plenty of posts about MIT's career fairs, mostly talking about the massive quantities of free stuff (water bottles, shirts

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  Cycle of targets, and there can't be any loops: in other words, the hunter ... two bandanas, one on each side of their body. the bandanas have to be ... A kills B, then B is out of the game and A now hunts C. this brings

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class soon ... Class of 2009 14% admit rate. We received 10,443 applications and ... : the MIT Class of 2009 will be composed of 53% male students and 47

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  to MIT and on a spur of the moment deal, tried out for an acapella ... some of you overachievers) to figure out your hobbies and interests. Many ... had to choose which hobbies to focus your time on and there just weren

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012