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• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  lot of questions about how choosing dorms, floors, rooms, and roommates ... dorms, a book describing the dorms, and a list of dorms with a ranking ... choices and then a month or two later, after a lot of magic happens, you are

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was ... reverting to my previous system of scribbling on bits of looseleaf paper, in ... : (1) bacon (2) an Eric Lander lecture (3) large amounts of money

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  off this slew Of the jobs and The medals and My foot on the pedal ... "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the ...   With her nails painted black and the whole of the world Turning

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  Over a week has passed since Pi day, and the reality of the MIT ... piece of MIT pi, and opt for the path less travelled. Some simply elect ... of sense. You may well discover after spending 4 years on another

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  of geeks, and suddenly remembered that this was the night of the super ... Farrelly brothers). There were many great shots of Boston, and I thought the ... story seemed to fall a little flat. And for those of you who were upset by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  and cool! It's on the second floor of building 7 (the staircase are ... definitely don't provide the perspective of the whole Institute, and I'm sure ... something completely different and equally great out of the experience. And

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  big deal; we're not sticklers for that type of stuff (and hey, nobody ... to proofread and double-check your spelling - and don't just rely on spell check! Here are some of our "favorites" (and by "favorites", I mean

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  of MIT's partnership with/acceptance of money from Shell and other ... pivot attention away from MIT’s exaltation of David H. Koch, and instead ... and championing climate change denialism for the financial benefit of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  , 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, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  editor at The Atlantic and one of my favorite bloggers - in which he quotes ... two of the entire outrushing universe of gas and matter and darkness-light, a cosmic floop of nothing into the volume and chronology of spacetime

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  )/14485008384, according to the back of the shirt, and google gives the ... length of Bemis without going too high and bouncing off the ceiling. Bemis ... bag of peanut m&m's, and we were spreading out in Bemis seeing how

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  a lot of time reading papers and blogs on urban transportation, and ... Research Board meeting, and then a conference on sustainable transportation ... snowstorm of the season in Boston, and an expected ice storm in DC (who ever

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Very, Very Important News That title is written to tantalize your RSS readers.

  

  . Everyone is super tired, but we'll all get a bit of a break soon and we ... that has been on my mind for the last half hour and will probably consume me for the rest of the night... Seth and Summer are back together

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  ice cream, 36 chocolate bars, and 3 bags of marshmallows have already ... hot dogs, 40 dozen bagels, and over 300 pieces of fruit coming my way ... . You just can't top the experience of spending that much money on ice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  ’s Sour album and realizing how wonderfully she captured the pains of first love ... beautiful phrase or vivid image, that’s often a sign of ego—and it’s necessary ... conduit for her, and it didn’t matter if it was terrible. Cross-posted on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life as a Talent Scout I could be the next Randy Jackson.

  

  competition. So on the way there, I stopped at Burger King on the way and tried ... Battle of the Bands 2007? I guess you'll have to wait and see ;-) In other ... , right? At a senior class event last semester, three of my friends and I

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  the blade and still sat on top of everything not reaching the blade ... , Host of Porcelain Cow (7pm Sundays), and Membership Director for WMBR 88 ... juice and a bit of honey and you process it until it’s smooth. That’s how

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  ; Bengt Holmstrom (Economics) Theory of the firm | Contracting and ... One week from today -- on Monday, October 8 -- the Nobel Foundation ... . Nobel Week is a pretty exciting time on campus, since a current or former

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  of eternity and create a legend—a legend that people would whisper ... —drafts that never made it past the first sentence and exist in a folder on his ... heart and determination in his spirit, the hero set out on his quest. As

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my dorm and my family helped me carry all my crates of junk up to my room ... from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005