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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  -distraction walls. It's a good place to study without being tempted by your computer or TV or friends. It's also a good place to look for course bibles ... other side of the room. Anyway, the TV room is a cool place to hang out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  A few weeks ago, I took some much needed vacation time to attend ... application from a student in rural Arkansas who has limited opportunities to extracurricular activities and is working a part-time job to support their family, I

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  was made more memorable by the following episode: (Jeanne and I spot a ... Boston Symphony Hall, where we hoped to pick up Boston Symphony Orchestra college cards. I haven't actually had the chance to use mine yet, but at the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  everything to get you laughing at me I'm still a believer but I don't know why ... thought about it like that before.  New Year’s Day is such a mellow end to ... has an overall happy, soft, purple-pink (but in a good way) feel to it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  . This one was gifted to me by mother, relatively recently. It features a ... getting to relax for the first time in a long while, with college ... ended up with. I originally thought this would be a quick post to write

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  that each September I seemed to get acclimatized more quickly: the ... to have brunch at Hillel, and afterwards I walked back to EC with a ... ! (Note: this is a long list; feel free to skim if your interest wanes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  : thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won’t get to spend my ... the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  -conscious about how often i make blog posts. my ideal is to make a post once a week ... two things: a way to vent, and a release from whatever negativity i feel, or a way to sink free time, to pursue things i find interesting like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  sexualisation I tend to talk about friend groups a lot on the blogs. I've always ... together. I was so surprised I was so easily able to form a friend group ... little brave to post this on a public platform where any of them can read

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  , there were a zillion other events that I'm still sad I didn't get to go to ... letters for saying that a group of us pre-frosh got to go tour some really ... independent country, and, in the process, to create a pretty awesome place for

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  only THEN that I discovered I really didn't have a lot to talk about ... roof yesterday 3)  Thanks to Bianca we now have a hydrangea A lot ... . I went to the admitted students BBQ in Portland a couple weeks ago and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  ’ve never been a sandwich person, so there was nowhere I had to consciously cut out meat.  I expected this vegetarian thing to last maybe a month ... can make up for it by eating a lot of beans and eggs (and sometimes fake

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  want to help a new generation of students to get in. When you email, use ... a bad day, perhaps your EC had a bad day - but don't let it get to you ... surprised when I noticed that many trees have started to don a new coat of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  on a broad scale by getting hung up on a narrow, self ... Pacific Islander; this year, it is closer to 16%, about a 40% decline. By ... over-enrolled by several dozen students, due to high yield rate that

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  all of campus puts on a bazillion fun events for them!) I wanted to ... was a way to decide where I wanted to go for undergrad. I hadn't com ... afterwards. My parents didn't come with me; they stuck me on a plane by myself

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  applying to college. Do homeschoolers have a harder time getting into MIT? If ... MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into ... prepare my kid to get into MIT" was (mostly) "don't try." Many of Raising

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  tickets to the BSO through the college card program. They were doing an a ... anniversary tour and two Christmas concerts of questionable quality by a ... . The concert featured professional soloists, and it's always a joy to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  and get money for all these cool projects and we have a study break ... our GRTs or the members of a particular suite are given $15 to prepare ... sounds weird. Trust me, I remember coming to campus for CPW and taking

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  ). Absolutely LOVE tennis, I hope to go to every major and get a (viewing) grand ... longer get intimidated by the grocery store to figure out what to eat and I ... subscription so I go to a lot of movies. I highly recommend getting a movie

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  trip options, we agreed to go to all three [an opera, a concert, and a ... Aphrodite and Ares descended to the people to end their war. I think it was a ... [/caption] After the opera, we went to get tacos from El Jefe’s across the street

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025