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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.…

  

  staffed by BC residents who make sure anyone who doesn't actually live here ... -distraction walls. It's a good place to study without being tempted by your computer ... -of-context quotes their friends make. In short, there are lots of ways to decorate

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  all our slides for our 10.28 oral presentation "by this evening." So, to ... of people seemed to be making the same completely random, arbitrary ... next week, and teachers aren't allowed to schedule any exams or major

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

  Bernanke to speak at Commencement!

  

  MIT just announced that Ben Bernanke '79 is going to be the graduation speaker for Commencement 2006. Bernanke has recently been nominated by President Bush to succeed Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  they want. Kevin has found a way to capitalize on this freedom to make ... off by a final design project that brings them to life. He’s also ... he’s on track to acing the class. His love of “making stuff” follows

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  Institute making sure we at least take two hours off a week to go soft brain ... -obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements ... ="I've never gone through with any of my plans, I just love making them. My

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  seems like a good time to tell you about two programs that I'm involved ... and want to help guide them through their first year. We can provide a student perspective on things like class choices, deciding whether or not to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  ? Questions from last entry will be answered when I get back to Beantown. Well ... I humbly consider to be the most superior Brass Rat ever. (Hee.) My ... opportunity to dine -- they don't serve hamburgers and fries there, you know

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  waking up in the morning after a terribly stressful week to a new hack by ... it's not just me) are staying up way too late to finish projects and do ... series by Orson Scott Card.  Unlike many of the MIT students that I know, I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  like to use a lot of extended metaphors--tempering iron, making porcelain ... caused by a fire sprinkler, something that’s supposed to protect against ... purpose, really, of being communities, and this idea makes sense to me now

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you want to hear about?

  

  I would like to post more entries this summer, but this is an MIT ... been posted already, and I'm not sure what you guys want to hear about. So tell me. What topics would you like to see entries about? If you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  't perceived, and broken down to its component parts. in a general sense, maybe ... collection of black and white shapes. on the other hand, to me, it appears ... it is difficult to return to the previous sensation, of seeing the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  the decisions people have to make and weigh when joining a sorority ... that I was chosen by lottery to live in the house and my options were to ... "What if..?" when it came to joining the other sorority. This past spring

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  energy drinks so that by the ridiculously late hour I was supposed to show ... If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you ... installing solar panels on the dome in order to conserve energy while the T

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  and I needed to reevaluate our relationship. So as I walked by, I very ... favor, okay? You have to remind me to enter the PE Lottery, which starts tomorrow. I've forgotten to do it for nine of the past ten quarters. Yes

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  's perhaps most important for some future nerds here at MIT (not to be confused ... , then you are who I'm talking to right now. There's just one thing you need to do between now and tomorrow: "Don't Panic" (and remember your

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  people passing by. Suite culture is a significant contributor to how social ... an identity to claim, but also the agency to grow and make the culture ... Conner is seeing a few changes that have implications for its ability to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  things I might want to be when I grow up? Well, I think "interior decorator" is going to have to be added to the list, because I am seriously good ... , but to date, no one has painted over any of my paint jobs, so I have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  Now that it's break, I finally have time to sit down and actually write about everything that's happened to me this semester. As I ... little depressing. But in the end it was all worth it. I got to work with

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  year, Chris Peterson summoned me back from my alumna grave to apply my treasury of comedic novelty photoshoot experience to pieing the bloggers in ... influenced by action-spy-thriller-heist-explosion movies. Tim the Beaver flips

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  .00 (Introduction to Programming), taught by the epic Prof. John Guttag: Turns out I ... have a cold so that means it is the perfect time... TO BLOG. In honor of "Whoa 2010, way to peace out so fast like that" here are some doodles from

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011