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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  dorms are New Ashdown, McCormick, Baker, Burton-Conner, MacGregor, New ... are visible in the foreground. A beautiful shot of the Charles River ... might crash your browser. :) For even more photos, feel free to check out

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  80% of Burton-Conner deskworkers are from Conner 3, so you can usually ... meat-free pictures. CULINARY NOTE: Mary Chung's makes an utterly ... exact line is "and the stars are black and cold," if memory serves me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  supplement. I would like to know, however, after RA decisions are made, what ... during IAP? I'm glad you asked that. I made the incredibly intelligent ... for such a simple device, so people are either really unnecessarily

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  made the journey from a rural upbringing to working at selective ... happened in the connections we made—with each other, with students, with ... hadn’t even imagined existed. I totally understand where they're coming

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  I'm enthusiastic about food nonetheless. On a scale from 1-10, where 1 ... crepe; you start to believe that the crepe itself is made of Nutella. I ... case is made for anything further out than that.

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  three weeks later. No, he meant get to know them - where they lived, what they wanted to study, what they liked to do for fun. What made them tick. What made them unique. Tall order? Maybe. But if you just try, think

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  consent) arrived at 9:00 and made pleasant conversation with me about MIT ... .112, where you derive the Schrodinger equation, qualitatively draw molecular ... , duh) and thought it said, "I plus or minus heart math," which made no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  laid on a piece of turquoise. This is where the priest would start the ... my very first all-nighter at MIT; I made it through by drinking 12 ... quantitative potentiometric titration. On the third day, I limply made my way to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  what to buy, and where things are located. I inspect a bag of clementines ... how it is cornered against a baseball field, where the local children ... pass the boathouse, before I enter Granite Street, there are always

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  places where you are admitted. Once you hear from all your choices you need ... admitted you. That's where your choices truly are, and you need to ... ...no matter what happens, be happy about where you are admitted, embrace your

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  ’s determining the location of where we are in the world, the area connecting to a ... . it’s key elements are one of my favorite things–numbers. Having that knowledge…we are almost like the people of Babylon. We are able to communicate

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  I don’t know where I’m going to be a year from now. That’s never ... . A sci-fi novelist, tucked away in a cabin somewhere in Michigan, where my days are filled with quiet days on a lake, inter-planetary battles

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  is an easy way to do this but there are other places too!) invite my ... where i am when i'm just working somewhere on campus or hanging out by ... friends for advice. they are smart people and often know what to do

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  of the best things that's happened to me at MIT. “These are all ... hiking and climbing are great ways to relieve the pressure. Because after ... been one of those things where the more I put in, the more I get out

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  ¡Buenos días! from Spain! While these festivities are going on at ... beautiful country. Recap (for people who are wondering why I'm in Europe ... IAP language program that exists at MIT. There are plenty of other

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  was to show you a controversial play where a penalty has occured and ... bellows YOU MAKE THE CALL. So boys and girls, guess what game we are going ... , what does diversity mean to an Admissions Selection Committee? Here are

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  of Wang are like the backrooms, and after taking a few turns, you end ... ’s a special subset of PE classes that are “Extreme,” and that give ... these are things like kayaking, backpacking, rockclimbing, and parkour

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  of events are often blessings in disguise. friends joining new groups ... audience, and so on. i have a bad habit where i tend to assume at first that most landscapes are competitive and zero-sum and lately i’ve been

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  people, including members of the dispersed MIT community, are struggling ... Minneapolis are deeply disturbing in themselves. And of course, they come on the ... intense for certain members of our community, beginning with those who are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  This post is long overdue. These are not the circumstances I had ... familiar childhood dream—the one where my legs, immobilized, desperately ... admissions officer, but I suppose these are “unprecedented times,” after all

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020