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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.…

  

  checks in and out. The front desk is also where you can get your mail, find ... dorm collection, or borrow the pool cues/ping pong paddles/etc to use in ... treadmill looks like.) This is the Porter Room. Back in the day it used to be

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

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  Tech and did my bachelor's in computer science, and I used to work in a ... recognition software]. I would end up borrowing my roommate's face to get the ... to decide and why, and what does that tell us about society? And so in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow snow snow. I'm wearing bright colors so if I get caught in a snow drift someone will…

  

  Michigan, which gets some of the most snow in the US, right? Our standards ... going to drown in snow on my way to class. If I never post again, you now ... An email I just sent out to my sorority: from: Shannon to: Theta date

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  . how do you know when to pause working? with problem sets, i'd stop in ... one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don ... referring to free space in a schedule, like a buffer period. but there's a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  deceit, and they're in over their heads. The key to getting past it ... the chosen few. They begin to wonder, in other words, if they were a ... in which people are unable to internalize their accomplishments." It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  allergies and how to pronounce the word "Stata". If that sounds like a fun way to spend your next 21 minutes, then you're in luck. Boy, oh boy, do I have the video for you. Our goal was to make an accessible, virtual tour

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  QUOTE: "My advice to a high school student interested in science as a career would be to forget all the stuff they tell you in the textbooks ... considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  just finish the work in time to submit things. Additionally, I'm taking a ... walk to the department so you can get a taste of what it's like to study ... say anyways.  When I applied to the Cambridge- MIT Exchange (CME

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  get to spend time in nature, so it was a lovely day. [caption id ... friends. i never get time to watch TV during the semester, so it was wild to ... so hosed we didn't get to watch it before the others did! that night

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  my fellow freshmen and I when we arrived on campus in August, only to ... , as some of you will have already guessed, in reference to the Large ... yesterday titled, "How to Win a Nobel Prize" - hands down, it was my favorite

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2009
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  The six departments in the MIT School of Science are consistently rated among the best in the world. They include: Biology, Brain and ... % of the content of our universe? How does our brain—a complex system of
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... , organization, hope, and autonomy. Emerge would continue to support them in ... The MIT Public Service Center provides fellowships for students to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  something like that. I think I’m going to concentrate in Music Technology if I ... just “music” – there was no other music in their lives to distinguish ... Trafalgar in 1805, and to preserve his body, the crew put his body into a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  really hope to God that I get the yes. After rapidly typing up an essay, I ... "You're good to submit!". I was kind of doubtful seeing as how quickly I ... brainstorming in August to constant drafting throughout September to numerous

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  lucky folks get to hear them instead!). We get samples from chemists in ... I get to work with liquid helium every day! It's very cool (...see ... , I get to explore the city with friends, go to the farmers market, hike

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  find a formalized way to get undergraduates involved in outreach. I hope ... WOMEN'S bathrooms: ZERO POINT TWO FIVE!!! MIT male: Uh...how did you get ... . On Thursday, I was about to scan and e-mail in an application form for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  reminded us to string up our food away from our tents, in case it drew ... also remembered that if a snake chases you, you're supposed to run in a ... 't about to settle for an official camping site. We parked outside the first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  in social situations with acquaintances. Two women waiting next to me ... outside. They established that coats were, indeed, useful to possess in the ... 'm just kidding about the first part. It wasn't that cold. In an attempt to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  or very excited about integrals to fit in, do well, or have fun at MIT. We have all sorts of hobbies. In fact, you can get through MIT solving ... type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  , sitting in a room with my mother while she watches a cocktail of What Not to ... happened. Let me explain this to you. If you are going to be in a group shot ... to see how it had turned out. Instead of seeing the wonderful picture

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008