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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  express themselves. Below you'll find accounts of six very different rooms ... a team of hair and makeup artists, as well as relaxing in their personal trailers parked outside of their rooms. No, actually I just ran

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

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... functional and eating edible food"]GRAs [/annotation]in the Fall of each year. It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  .[/annotation]  That was my first taste of trekking around campus. MIT’s campus is a ... end of campus to another, such as from Tang Hall to the Sloan School of Management, it would be a [annotation note="Which is about the length of 12

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  -illustrated incarnation of MIT’s mascot Tim the Beaver']Tim[/annotation]has become a quintessential representation of MIT culture. I love that beautiful little dude. It ... hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  a kid, my dad would play me a few of the classics—Golden Slumbers, Let ... MIT: Regressions, where I saw footage of Timothy Leary, the father of ... movement and learned of the Beatles' role in it. They not only helped

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

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  [/annotation] this semester, and part of the class involves observing at local ... school had a lot more of a fear of God in them -- both metaphorical and ... down in school, so I would've loved a little less rigid of a classroom

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  the forefront of it! This year, we will be building an autonomous boat ... ! Audrey: Yeah! So this will be Arcturus’ second year of competition. Last ... competition this year or the next will depend on the amount of manpower we get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  Friday nights are great. Assuming you’re not in one of those classes ... midnight,[/annotation] Friday nights bring the freedom of having no impending ... from going to the types of social events that are just barely getting

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  Here's a list of things that I consider love languages, because the standard ones--acts of service, quality time, gifts, words of affirmation ... .   Heart-shaped things are a love language. I love this time of year

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  fact, I usually actively stop myself when I get on that train of thought ... everything my class has missed out on. A lot of things still aren't the same as in the "before times," of course. We wear masks in class, and because

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... ="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into ... it impacted me quite a bit. with every new year comes an onslaught of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  , in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel, DJ to my left, and right behind him is Ameer. Scattered throughout the rest of the office is ... tangibly real, to digitized clusters of pixels on a Zoom call. What is "real

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  amazing program and a huge part of my life. However, it’s hard to understand ... wanted to answer some of the questions I get the most, and provide specific information about the rewarding experience of being a cadet here at MIT.  So

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  : we can meet Two hours later, we’re at Park Street, one of the stops on ... central park in the middle of the city. We talk. He just came from debate at ... suggest we walk in a direction neither of us know. Alan knows downtown

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  -and-the-firehose-oh-havent-you-missed-me-dearly kind of back-to-school welcome. Before having much time to recharge from ... -- after our family friends from Australia moved out of California. They are the sweetest! Reaching the summit of a 11k foot mountain, Mount Baldy

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  stresses of MIT. There are no more PSETs I must frantically worry about ... winter-me. I’m on the train heading into the depths of New York City, about to venture into the Museum of Modern Art with a friend from Senior Haus

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  'm working on getting a better camera so apologies  ahed of time)"   I ... nevertheless every piece of your life seems to fit into the right spot. You ... buildings seemed to be the embodiment of innovation, the students I saw

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  to help develop a mathematical model of the electric properties of ... property to keep track of how composites containing carbon nanotubes hold up ... two major goals going into the beginning of this summer. One was to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  first met while judging Battle of the Bands at CPW 2010. Today, at 3:54 PM ET, the kickstarter for Ministry of Supply, the business apparel ... . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  the British, you may have heard fireworks and smelled the smoke of bonfire. You may even think that you know the reason: the celebration of Guy ... penchants. This is a common misconception. For what all of these millions of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011