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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 ... room is a little sad and lonely looking these days. Not many people use ... 1. Conner 1 is taken up by the housemaster's suite (a faculty member

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

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  with prospies and tell them how cool MIT is. I'd been on the tour for, oh ... drive a couple of months back much less painful) and I found some fun ... . On a sidenote, Interphase is getting ready to gear up. I can tell

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase "the wrong ... hometown is a classist jerk, but more than once have I or a member of my ... . Period. This is just a fact of life which I've known since I was a little

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  how much people love it or what they should improve. To be fair, it's a ... you say it is, because I am a sane person."So yeah. A list it is. 1. I ... advocate of eating healthily and a strong believer in the fact that Food is

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  blender. I was a skeptic (how can you beat WillItBlend?) but I decided to ... Blendie looks like an ordinary blender, it is in fact a voice activated ... guys are excited, and in a little over a week you will all know just how

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their ... suggestions and ideas of the entire class, RingComm designs the ring over a six-month period, unveils it at an extravagant event, and stages a lavish delivery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  On college applications, you’ll probably come across a question like ... (s) (check all that apply)”. At least for myself, this is an easy question to ... , this can be seen like a trick question. In a conversation I had with a

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  for academic planning. Here are some essentials: CourseRoad is a ... Excellence, is a helpful guide for time management, academic integrity ... subsequent semesters. Last day to Add or switch a class is October 9. Make

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type.  It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church ... ... ...and group hugs... ...and much applause. Have a great weekend!

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  're not a tech person, right?" Arch, because the AUR is apparently the ... pretty much my entire life, I like it. It was somewhat of a pain getting ... things is a shark plushie, who is becoming good friends with Ice Bear. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  in Physics, which is perhaps not a representative sample of the gender ... problems than his memorization skills. Is there a similar emphasis on ... to ensure that you will never fail because you spent too much time on a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  things that it was completely worth leaving home a week early. I arrived at MIT a week early to participate in FUP, or the MIT Freshman Urban Program, which is one of MIT's many pre-orientation programs.  FUP focuses

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  so motivated to learn so much about a topic, or tackled my final ... Before college, I was by no means a hardcore Beatles fan. When I was a kid, my dad would play me a few of the classics—Golden Slumbers, Let

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  wondering, how much would a so-so interview hurt chances of admission in the ... anywhere. If I go onto collegeboard's site there is a link "Send scores to schools." Is this still a valid/official way to send scores, just in case I

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  . Stargazing in Boston is a very different experience than in the suburbs of a ... World Wide Web* here. On a more general note, I think this is really the ... paid for it a little. As much as I would love to do things for free, what

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  next thing. The issue is, that I don't know how long this feeling is ... is the most important thing but it's stressing me out SO MUCH. Anyways ... Program (DRP). The DRP is a program run by the math department in which

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  Paris' 14th, and how I even got a small stipend, my parents were just as ... research institute with a specialization in cancer. I hadn't worked much in a ... -free vacation I had... they were a bit shocked. You're going all alone? they asked

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  to a place radically different from home. In these first few months, I spent a lot of time walking and riding my bike, exploring Cambridge and Greater Boston. I don’t think much has changed about how amazing fall is to

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although ... words with my own pen. "There is a strong argument to be made," Ta

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  is posing as a "spanning tree") The "Mother Of The Internet' Puzzle ... jumbo of computer language. "Math is sort of pure logic; there's a beauty ... academically, and earned a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 1988. Perlman is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006