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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.…

  

  in them. But I assure you they exist. Now, a little geography. All of ... So I suck at life and haven't blogged in FOREVER. =( But! I'm making ... tour of Burton-Conner. Seriously. I took literally about 70 pictures of

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

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  keeping my eyes closed. Do I do it out of fear? Is the person in the ... August. I was sitting in Killian Court alone. The sun was sharp ... river was blinding. At this moment, you could've told me I was anywhere in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  spite of that, you've still achieved in many ways. That's why I suggested ... - even easier - than before. With that in mind, I invite you to ... memory. Set a reference frame there for now. What do you see? In one of my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  both broken, though, so I guess it's in the spirit of our lab to recycle ... in this Discover article. Not to brag, but I got to have dinner with ... 's quoted in that article. We spent most of our time discussing the worst

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  river in East Cambridge. I think the Back Bay area of Boston is very ... Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... middle of the Charles River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I'm taking ... of MIT students are MIT students.   Admissions officers can write ... ; In the main, we are looking for bloggers with good judgment who can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  am in the process of redoing my résumé (again). Yes, I probably do have ... too for notes, too. That's all the tips I can think of off the top of ... It totally hit me today when I stumbled upon a copy of the Tech and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  home of a current student in the program. Sunday, Feb 26. I take a tour ... I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty sick of grad school interviews. I've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  . I forgot to think of whether this felt “aesthetic” to me and vibed in ... , and I wasn’t sure myself of the answer, A snowstorm happened in NYC one ... ’t sure whether the landscape fit the definition of aesthetic I believed in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  /systems/psychology. If you like all of it, you can dabble in everything. Have it your way ... Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab ... -to-moderately sized department in the School of Science. There are usually about 30

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  on optical frequency combs, which she describes as "so cool." Sadly, I can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I ... Frantz. (Luckily, there are more nights of this performance, so I may still get a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  by training (MIT-educated in Course 2) so I wanted to know all the ... system! In the meantime, you can watch me talking at Maker Faire last May ... Please note that, as  Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

    On Friday, I'd had it. I was coming off of one of those weeks ... feeling rising in my mind that I've forgotten how to put in words. Fu ... .....what's that? Can we enhance the image? Hmm the back of that head looks

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  into Burton Conner in Fall 2022 with three classes of Bombers who can ... if you've read any of my blogs, you know that i'm a former resident ... until Fall 2022. i am currently living in East Campus, but i spent the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  MIT. In fact, I've set up a doodle. Don't worry about the numbers of the ... , right? Cramming a ton of stuff into a really short time period? I have two things that I want to throw at you today in this entry. The first

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  ’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of ... forms of writing. This past semester, I took [annotation note="3.010 and ... of materials). Here are the five writing assignments I did for these

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  cons of Burton Conner vs. Senior Haus, and in retrospect, very little ... taught in a field I was interested in. Seminars, he said, were ideal, since ... advice was lost on me in the multitude of options - seminar or traditional

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  intermittently ever since IAP. In fact, I was able to get a taste of neuroscience ... -lovable Elizabeth, '13, by snapping a picture of one of these people in uncomfortably ... a great degree of compassion and commitment, and I greatly look

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  discovered all sorts of stuff. Highly highly recommend. I’m in this class just ... . Part of it is because I remember reading these blogs back in the day (and ... all of the writing that I’ve done in the last month, mostly because of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  of registering for an event), they can be design (i.e. a notably ... We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions, which I know many of you await with varying degrees of anxiety. But while

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018