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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Burton-Conner is one of the dorms here at MIT. You can check out our ... , spackle, and paint. At this point we only have drywall. 2) Our TV is ... ALL the floors, not just Conner 3. At the end of the evening, freshmen

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  attempt at helping you understand what laptops frequent campus and which you ... , then you won't be at a huge disadvantage with a desktop, but it ... discourage purchasing a Macbook air at this point. It's VERY expensive and not

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  leaves me with English I, II, and IV at the end of my junior year (For anyone who might read this that is not familiar, I am applying at the end ... conducted research in physics at Washington University through a program that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  ?" It rocked. Today Sam's Mom and I went for cheesesteak at my favorite ... Bravo at MIT, so this evening I watched Battle of the Network Reality ... (George Orwell) -- This was $2.50 at the Harvard Bookstore used, so I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  singlehandedly makes the album at least 11 times better. Now, not only can you ... target audience– teenagers in high school. Just look at me: I’m a guy that didn’t even go to prom. I can’t relate at all to prom dress, and yet I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  ” are written as instructions addressed to me, not to the world at large ... courtyard of the house my family was living in at the time. Extremely fun. My ... , and at the opposite end, a few steps rose up to a small sort of stage

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  perfectly nonsensical goal that I could chip away at for months. I regretted ... and upside down and mirrored, all at once; but more importantly, I still ... . At MIT, it’s not enough to be vaguely smart. It turns out you have to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the ... be able to honestly say that, but I will at the very least try very ... overcommitter and a workaholic to boot"]at once.[/annotation] I’d like to also

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  'm so very excited. In the meantime, I’m at home, where apart from the ... stretch of road at dusk.  I love being here but over time I feel trapped ... College X. I scoffed at those; I may have sold my soul to the [annotation

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  ’t mention how physics believed light to work at the time, didn’t explain ideas ... Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything which I’ve read at least ... and how science has interacted with the world-at-large, and I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  former classmate. He graduated last year (as the ‘17 suggests). When at MIT ... House ideas didn’t pan out, but Hassan’s sophomore summer, he interned at ... to simply use for their next year at college or spend on themselves

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  always carries that “judging a book by its cover” risk, but it is at least ... for the cost of shipping heh~ they’re expensive, but at this point I ... useful it was for my UROP supervisor, a masters student at the media lab. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  help you right now and can be reached at [email]. Dean Nelson and I are also here for you if you want to talk about the future at any point over ... pantry, or for late-night meals at a new café in Walker Memorial, opening

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  's a shame this area of town isn't as nice." Person 2: "Yeah, but at ... schools (at the elementary and middle school levels as well) on the richer ... "poorer" cousins at the elementary and middle school levels, and was all set

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  performed live, interspersed among acting scenes, I marveled at the commenters’ powers of inference. When I saw Firebringer in my freshman fall at MIT ... . When my attempts at conversation are warped by a desire for relatability

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  , looking at the other cruft blog posts[/caption] As one of the least crufty ... underwater basket weaving. I’m pretty similar to myself at graduation other ... club, it probably isn’t too difficult to try it out at the beginning of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  ” Explanation: The word ‘trivial’ is SO common at MIT. I don’t think I ever heard ... c = 0. People at MIT use both definitions–[annotation note ... have no explanation, and was *this* close to throwing said mushrooms at

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  advisor exclaimed as he looked over my registration at the start of the ... any of these at MIT, unfortunately)[/caption] Oscilloscopes are ... at any given point during the game, which I’d then “flatten” into a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  architecture of MIT's campus, lies a pub. it opened in 2004 and was used for at ... =”Council for the Arts at MIT”]CAMIT[/annotation] to create the installation, most ... , at times spending a full day on just one second. it definitely shows

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  thoroughly impressed by everyone's lamps at the end. This blog covers my design ... the Fabcreator laser cutter at [annotation note="one of my favorite makerspaces! Consider this blog a tour of labs at MIT"]IDC[/annotation]. This

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022