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Blog / MIT History & Culture
Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!
10. I won’t have to think about the Crystal Field Theory… …Which is unfortunately what we happen to be learning about in my 5.112 (Principles of Chemistry) class at the… -
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Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.
Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten years, it was understandably a big deal for me when… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.
Having spent the majority of orientation meeting new people, staying up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a dangerous sense of nonchalance. Consequently, I… -
Blog / Admissions
Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.
valedictorian at Lucy C. Laney High School. He plans to major in electrical and -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Fresh Food! Here at last!
Dining is a hot topic here, and rightfully so ’cause a tooling MIT student has got to eat. In fact, all college students need to eat (hopefully that wasn’t surprising… -
Blog / Events
Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you + Valentine’s Day card. End memo. First, and most importantly: BEN FOLDS IS COMING TO MIT. So every year… -
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The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.
I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have wondered where the rest of us were during IAP, if not building snowmen, solving brain-busting puzzles, and… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.
Technology Class Ring dates back to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham Allen -
Blog / Academics & Research
The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!
So, there are pretty much five schools at MIT. From most popular onwards, they are Engineering, Management, Science, Architecture+Planning, and Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. (Here are some statistics on… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?
I know I haven’t written anything lately. Portraying MIT feels a bit weird now because my boyfriend, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, has just taken a leave of absence. Taking… -
Blog / Admissions
My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...
I realize that some of my readers may not have had the opportunity to visit MIT yet. They may never walk the tunnels before they decide to apply. A brave… -
Blog / MIT Life
My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…
Carnegie Endowment, a think tank that's based in D.C, studying -
Blog / Admissions
Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!
are the new student bloggers: Kim D. '09 Cristen C. '10 Ahmed H. '12 -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."
to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham Allen, President of the Class of 1929 -
Blog / MIT Life
Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…
You may know Conan O’Brien, host of the popular late night talk show Late Night with Conan O’Brien. For the past month, Conan’s show has been airing without the benefit… -
Blog / Admissions
Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.
Ross Program Stanford University Mathematics Camp (SUMaC) Women -
Blog / Events
Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7nJdvQpOSY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0_w_0Nsi2c http -
Blog / Admissions
Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.
of you may be saying, "C'mon, MIT is really good at math. They have to -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.
Simmons Hall community. He currently lives in Washington, D.C. and works as