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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  ; Angela '10 At the end of the year each floor in Burton-Conner holds ... singles at the end of their first year. "I picked my room because I thought ... into singles at the beginning of the semester, but each turned it down

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  days of the firefly music festival. it was absolutely amazing; Tame ... friends in the last week of the semester. there was an ungodly amount of ... get to perform at OVRDRV, Boston University's dance showcase, and Dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  Hi!! First of all, I'M SO EXCITED TO BE AN MIT BLOGGER!! When I got that message from the infamous King of the Internet, Chris Peterson ... in a lab at Stony Brook University back in New York, supervising my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  events for the sake of molding myself into someone I'm not. But at the same ... the idea of a conversation with a stranger or a big party event doesn't still make my heart beat at an uncomfortable rate and tie up my tongue to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  [annotation note="A set of clips that contains at least one vidoe track and one ... nostalgic enough song to go at the end of the documentary for the closing ... shit at MIT. Seeing as I didn't end up as a pure engineering major, my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  and spend more time at home, or travelling. Some of my friends are doing ... Activities Period—this glorious month of fun classes and activities. It’s kind of hard to describe IAP because people are just doing wildly different

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  of the sound. The organ is off to the side of the auditorium, at the ... classical music-loving group. My neighbors are members of concert choir and ... lot of exposure to music composed between 1600-1800. I've listened to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  added another job on top of that and am back at my old UROP, but under a ... Hi everyone! Apologies for being gone. I have a lot of blogs ... is doing this IAP and a quick recap of our winter break! Winter Break

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  author of the computer book I had read at 15, Edmund Berkeley. I told him ... .I.T., while still working at the magazine, I had an interview with the head of Univac, Louis Rader. At the time Univac was a unit of Sperry-Rand and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  HOZIER, KING OF IRELAND, IS HERE TO SPEAK:  It can't be said I'm an early ... black and my bed at threeYou're too sweet for meYou're too sweet for me I take my whiskey neatMy coffee black and my bed at threeYou're too sweet

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  people at 4 meetings across the state of Florida. I met many great students ... Ocho, in Miami's Little Havana. The Cuban sampler at Versailles ... Counselors (ECs) before the Central Meeting. The Tampa ECs and I dining at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  . This did feel like a more accurate description of myself, but at the same ... This post began with my long-standing hatred of Myers-Briggs tests ... periods of introspection, helped in part by taking a Myers

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  could reasonably classify as the middle of nowhere, way at the end of the ... feeling of walking along the river and smiling at a passing Labradoodle then ... wonderful. At one point we were discussing the prospect of grad school. I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close ... with a group of (vaccinated) friends across a few national parks out west ... , very sure that i’ll throw up a blog every now or then as an alum, and of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  only left with two choices, neither of which I thought much of at the ... at MIT, and thus I made it my goal to transfer there by the end of the ... essays I helped edit last year. He's a friend of a friend who wrote an

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  at MIT, I got to be Tim the Beaver.   Get to check that one off my list of 101 Things to Do Before You Graduate!   It’s always sort of fascinating when something you’ve been taking for granted turns

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  and don't have time got some time today, stuck at home by the blizzard. 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

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend at Princeton traveled up to Cambridge for ... showing him around our dorm. Back at Senior House, he made an interesting ... we take for granted as residents of the East Side. In a similar

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  amount of ethyl acetate at a given purity per year. Ethyl acetate is a very ... Mary, and my status as the youngest child meant she knew my location at ... Engineering class of 2012 has hit a monumental milestone in the last couple of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  scientific community convened for the first time at the University of Chicago ... (this year, it begins at sundown on March 19). In the interest of keeping ... Last week, six of MIT’s most illustrious professors gathered in 26

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011