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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.…

  

  other side of the room. Anyway, the TV room is a cool place to hang out with friends, watch TV or movies, or play on any of the game consoles the ... game of pool down here. Any BC resident is free to use the weight room

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

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  become a mosaic of all that life gives you. Your high points lay the ... full of finals studying to do. I’ve been one of those 1800 kids for the past three years of my life. And in the blink of an eye, I’ve gone from

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS ... both the single and dual moguls portions of Sunday River's Bust 'n' Burn ... get psyched CPW is probably my third-favorite time of the year (after

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... middle of the Charles River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below ... in front of MIT, approximately in front of the Sailing Pavilion and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good ... have been brought up to think that getting into a good school is one of ... the names of their kids' schools as status symbols. You've craved an

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  contains a grain of truth. It's a good thing that we've got something called ... the MIT community practice better etiquette.  And one of the most ... only member of the media there.  Arriving a few minutes early, I spotted

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a ... best quotes from lecture. Shout out the 9.00 group chat for all of these ... you want to take a sip of coffee, you know not only what the cup looks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  midnight,[/annotation] Friday nights bring the freedom of having no impending deadlines. The only struggle is picking something to do. With so many good ... from going to the types of social events that are just barely getting

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  to put the anxiety of prospective students to rest; knowing you ... the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I've also always been a ... Institute of Technology. I liked the way that sounded. It had a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  -to-make recipes with the rest of the world. If you're interested in learning to cook ... mourning the loss of the Stata produce market for the past few months ... pause my hectic day to lug home armfuls of groceries. Alas, the produce

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  and informative lab working on the genetics of regeneration. Slicing up ... through the rest of term. Sometime over IAP, I started hanging out in the ... gig. If I was chosen to be part of the team, I would get to code

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get back to doing one of the ... .   Pistol First of all, I JOINED THE PISTOL TEAM! (Photo Credit ... ’m improving so much!! I can get almost every shot in the black area of a target

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  Before I go on, I need to comment: this was the day of the Doctor Who 50th ... hard copy of my schedule for the day. Here is a Google calendar ... , Anna! As you can see from the schedule, I taught most of my classes in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best ... time. (Which I loved, of course.) The people there are seriously the ... of the Puertorrican students, and I even had dinner with them. Talking

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  O.M.G. It's over, finally. For the last two weeks all of the ... noticed a severe drop off in the number of blogs, which may make perfect ... our dorm. We planned a "Legends of the Hidden Temple" themed party, a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  told all of my friends that this was going to be the summer that I was ... skateboard. Getting the board After asking some friends in the Class of ‘25 ... instead of doing tricks. He got excited at the prospect of a fresh new

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  , and it is a good feeling. I plan on attending the Houston MIT Class of ... times I feel a lot of pressure.  But for the most part, when people find ... each day in front of pretty microscopes and pieces of metal. The other

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  today is the first day of classes, I guess it's a good thing that I ... the first day of classes, but before I get into that, we have some ... was part of the packaging of my brand new awesome laptop): OK, I find

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  away from the action as possible, shrieking "OH MY GOODNESS, OH MY ... in the evening, I walk back to French House along the back of the dorm ... of my voice, which I have already judged to be less than good. Now, on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  This year, Jeremy, Nikki, and I were in charge of the Admitted Student Welcome and Closing Show—two of the flagship events of CPW. Jeremy ... , wisdom, and honesty about some of the tough parts of MIT, so I asked him if

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024