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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.…

  

  up for it by putting tons of effort into this much-anticipated virtual tour of Burton-Conner. Seriously. I took literally about 70 pictures of ... , except that one use of a washer or dryer costs $0.75. And someone has an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  Wikipedia. I couldn't think of anything to blog about in recent memory, but I ... look at them. Sorry, what was I supposed to do? Pull out of my webspace ... a poem. I was especially proud of us for the rhyme "three eight four

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New ... unassuming, only the giant blue solar panels on the roof give any indication of ... itself 10 times over." Unfortunately, the cost of these sunlight

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  detect some of this excitement in my entry. In seventh grade I learned from Mrs. Gekas that ART IS EVERYTHING! Here are three pieces of modern art ... yourself, does this dilute the challenge of the test? Well, no, because they

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  . I know that many of you haven't heard yet, and that it's enormously ... say that (1) the Post Office is dealing with insane amounts of mail due ... same time on Friday afternoon, 12/9/05. If someone received a piece of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  week-long program for Intel Science Talent Search finalists. As part of the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  Mystery Hunt 2006. What is Mystery Hunt? Mystery Hunt is one of IAP's most ... where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  week. They will not always be on Tuesday so that those of you who have commitments on Tuesday nights will be able to take advantage of them. I will announce each session either the day of or the day before, and have a sign

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  (just kidding! I did my share of the work! Promise!) and taking pictures of LEGOs. But do I actually do any work? The answer, surprisingly, is ... 'm not being sarcastic when I say that I'm sure there are plenty of them

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  I realized the other day that, despite the fact that most of you are ... there are very few pictures of me in a cheerleading uniform on good hair ... experience. (As some others of you may also be dimly aware, I was in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... , a group of interior decorators and a contractor take over a house and ... 's a half-solar double that faces the river and has two walls of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  . Sorry. That's an apology for a lot of things. Please don't go stalking ... '08 had seen March of the Penguins, so she knew that the best way to get ... picture and be reminded of the trauma. Sorry, Megan '08! After that, we sat

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  applications. (What???) I'm hesitant to dole out reams of application advice ... a wheelbarrow full of salt, I remind myself of the wise words of My So ... forth, '10 applicants, and best of luck! ----------- (My sincerest

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  t-shirt, and my Harry Potter desktop wallpaper's fact of the day read ... Center where we waited patiently for the strike of midnight when we'd be able to get a copy of the book. For entertainment, the party had a "Make

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  , you slacker." Well, I got tired of being called a slacker every time I ... . It will include a picture of your truly, so you can all see how gorgeous I really am in real life. As you probably know, it's kind of hard to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of entries on how to visit MIT and Boston this summer. For those of you who ... and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to visit a variety of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the ... the wait was an hour and a half, so we headed down to Cafe of India ... imagined, though it isn't large by the standards of national parks in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  've been told that sarcasm isn't funny this time of the year. I'm sorry about that.] I hope you'll find those really cool juniors (members of the high school Class of 2006) that you know and encourage them to expand their mind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  I've just finished in New York City, where I did my last two days of ... where, with all of the admissions officers finally together after a long ... 'll start reviewing applications sometime near the first weekend of November

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  ... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip ... passing thought. One of my new housemates lives west of me, within the US; she was also hoping to drive to Boston instead of fly. "Hey Mom, wouldn

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020