Burton-Conner House
Welcome to Burton Conner
About
Burton-Conner is a delicious stew of nine unique floor communities and one living group, each seasoned with its own culture, history, and aesthetic. Also in the mix are mural panel boards awaiting your slops of paint, a handful of quality facilities, energy-efficient windows (technically), and a heaping helping of sharp-looking, warm-hearted friends. If you decide to live in BC, you may find yourself causing the next (not-so-)occasional late-night fire alarm in your well-equipped suite kitchen or at one of BC’s dorm-wide events in the Porter Room, the largest indoor activity space north of the Charles and south of Briggs Field.
Burton Conner is diverse across our tight-knit floors, but we all pride ourselves on playing just as hard as we work. Various things we play include:
- Djembes
- Ourselves
- Fire drills
- Extreme Utensil Sports
- Apple Bake
- Dancing-Thieving-Yodeling-Deluding
- Settlers of Catan
- Fire, not drills
- Sharing underwear colors on bc-talk
- Offering sacrifice to a crustacean deity of your choice
If you want to learn more about Burton Conner, feel free to reach out via the Contact section or check out our resident-managed website, bc.mit.edu.
Dining Info
A unique and interesting part of living at Burton-Conner is the opportunity to cook for yourself. Every suite in BC is equipped with a small kitchen, including a stove, an oven, a sink, at least one fridge, and (approximately) enough cabinet space for all the people living in that suite. Suites also have basic kitchen supplies like plates, bowls, and utensils for ordinary cooking and baking.
Residents who cook for themselves commonly buy groceries at Target, H-Mart, Trader Joe's, or Whole Foods, most of which are about a mile from the dorm. There is a shuttle that runs from the dorms to Trader Joe's and Whole Foods on the weekends, and a shuttle to Costco every other weekend. Many residents also make use of grocery delivery services, like Daily Table, Amazon Fresh, Instacart, and Weee. Residents who do not cook for themselves can be on MIT meal plans or buy meals from food options on and near campus ($10 Chipotle meal plan anyone?).
Room Assignments
A unique feature of MIT’s residential system is that student Room Assignment Chairs or "RACs" coordinate individual room assignments in each building along with members of their House Team. Each house approaches room assignments a bit differently but all follow these principles:
New student preferences will be used to make room assignments.
Upper-level students will not preference or select students to live on their floors/entry/community.
First-year students may opt out of exploration and are not required to move.
After REX, Burton Conner hosts FLEX, a whole-house event for first-years to formally meet the nine-floor communities and fill out a form with their preferences for where they want to live within Burton Connor. These preferences are then fed into a sorting algorithm to determine final room assignments.
The RACs and House Team can work with first-years to find opportunities to explore BC’s floor communities in a way that works best for them, and first-years may opt out of FLEX by emailing bc-rooming@mit.edu on the day of FLEX and not filling the preferences form.
Contact
Burton-Conner House
Building W51
410 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel. (617) 253-3261
Visit the resident-managed website for more information about Burton-Conner House. Questions about the community may be directed to resident leaders by emailing bc-exec@mit.edu.
