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• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  experiences on the Burton Conner Transition Team, which is responsible for ... Associate Head of House apartment installed somewhere on their floor, which is ... orange and black tiles on the floor outside the elevator landing, which is

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

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on ... . I was on a Site Reliability Engineering team, which managed the data ... , this very tall apartment building seemed to only support AC on the lower

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  . I normally come here on Friday after I do some of my UROP. I will go ... the noise of the ground below. There is normally not much going on up here on the second floor, and I go grab something to eat right after

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  common deadline-time questions. There are many answers already here on the ... you type directly into the text box on MyMIT, everything should be fine ... and the admissions committee will not be able to see it. Preview: On

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  the entire infinity of a drizzly afternoon, feeling like an intruder on ... Books. On the semi-bright side, I had signed up for an overnight visit to ... known as McCormick Hall, but on the dim side, biology and I were no longer

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  officially left my mark on 4 different rooms on Conner 2. Freshman year, April ... walls with them, and it would look sort of like a beach- yellow sand on the bottom and blue-green water on top. As a born and bred Jersey girl

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  up. Take them for what you will. On Homesickness Everyone is lonely ... parents, or shutting yourself out from all the excitement that's going on ... upperclassmen are up and about on campus, trying to meet all of you and hear your

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  insist on denying that the future is rushing towards me at a terrifying ... wanted to be an engineer and just accidentally ended up on this path which ... mood lately and want to do nothing but lie on a beach reading all day for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  years here will feel like that, a mere blip on the radar. And while there's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... things here and there on the blog, but I'd be doing a lot more of them were

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  ="attachment_60234" align="aligncenter" width="1125"] composites layup on roofdeck ... bulkheads are manufactured on CNC mills and lathes, while parts such as enclosures and panels for the avionics tower are manufactured on 3D printers

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  't really find a lot of recent content on Random (because Lydia was our main ... . So, I've decided to try and take on the reigns and show my process to ... residents"]i3 videos[/annotation], I finally settled on my future home for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  years on the same floor, and in the same room for three of those four ... on a different link but then accidentally clicked on this one so here ... Maseeh, but rather a student perspective on what we like and don't like

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  we call LN2. For campers, LN2 starts and ends on Saturday, which is ... , the JC I worked on LN2 with, and I would take inventories of plastic ... had some extra LN2, so on Wednesdays I’d hold an event to satisfy my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  of “ON YOUR SCOOTAH!” This season, it was our fair and brave president ... game to play. Each team has three to four players on at a time, each of whom rides on a noble steed--those scooters that you used to sit your

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  so lucky, but I did write a handful of rhymes for giggles on our bus ... of Iceland[/caption] the wheels on the bus go round and round driving all 'round the town there's light snow dustings on the ground in iceland

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  them, I am running on the delightful concoction of sleeplessness, instant ... note="beware that some bikes being sold on craigslist are stolen! you can check by searching up the bike's serial number on bikeindex.org/stolen. it

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  ’t write about what it’s like to live on Conner 2, or plan REX, or UROP, or ... disciplined exuberance to post at least twice a month on average. We may ask you ... application will go live on 07/01/2023, and close on 8/01/2023. Anyone who has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  . “Why are you always dating these PhD types? You’re overindexing on ... the colors and textures. “It felt like magic,” he told me on one of our ... success, but we certainly weren’t trying to appear on magazine covers or

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  i’ve learned that people here rely on each other. in a greuling ... here, i already feel indebted to nearly everyone on hall. when all is ... don’t want to intrude on the space they need. so i stay silent. and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the ... to see the lights turned off and people napping, sitting on a couch ... time i spent a whole day bouncing on and off trains with a friend, two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022