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• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  . And yet I’ve been happy on the East Side for three years. That said ... community that fits you. For this post on East Campus pros and cons, I asked ... K. ‘19, based on an informal survey. (Note from Maya: "This was a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  programs in Madrid. I enrolled in 21L.590 Global Literature (although on ... covering a crash course on Spanish history, an assortment of Spanish poetry ... plenty of time in the afternoons and on the weekends to explore as much of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  I received the following question on tumblr the other day:   ... for tumblr to this post, which I hope will shed some light on the ... cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  Oust air sanitizer and a pack of Pringles chips. I worked on some puzzle ... Marriot on Whalley Avenue. After settling down in our hotel rooms we went out for some ice cream and stopped on our way back at a party going on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  low on material right now. [Editor's note: Um, by which he means that I ... MIT, I've worked as a UROP on two research projects. Freshman and ... might have supposed, based on my infatuation with remote controlled (r

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  on a 7.012 pset. Alex '08 (recently elected Burton Conner treasurer!) and I were hard at work in his suite lounge on Conner 4: Then Aaron ... snow had melted. That didn't stop us. Aaron strapped on the skis and made

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of something like relief. It was certainly a tumultuous year on a global scale ... terrorism were one of several dark pockmarks on the face of the bygone year

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry ... am working on my novel, or making a sad attempt to work on my novel ... minutes late, but I am probably not 10 minutes late. I call my mom on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  New cases in MA: 13 On March 9, Princeton made an announcement ... then; I miss having "simple" worries about how I would do on my next exam ... positive case of COVID on March 2. From then until March 9, there were under

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  hinged on me really enjoying physics classes, and I’m just not sure how ... ’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on ... the class. Or, more accurately, we moved on from special relativity to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  was staying on campus and was updated on testing and all that jazz. The ... 's phone either. Two. On a weekend night three weeks ago I had a sudden urge ... on a whim. The next day, I got one rejection. I then got sent two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• 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