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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  Blogging the Ring Premiere is a big deal. Like, really, it’s a big deal. Look at the application that Snively used to determine which sophomore blogger will get to blog…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  To go along with Chris’ entry about excitement for the unveiling of the ring, here’s a bit of history and background. Each class year at MIT officially gathers three times…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Today Short and sweet.

  

  Today is a Junior Mint day.

  • by Snively '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  I subscribe to the New York Times (paper edition!) and reading it on my daily commute is one of the joys of waking up each morning. So I was quite…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  Sooo, I’m back in Boston. And, to be really honest, I miss Japan a lot. Boston is cold, gloomy, and (maybe because I’m just lazy) school started again! As promised:…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  FIRST OF ALL: In case that you haven’t thought of enough reasons to come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out with me…

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  Today, winter left Boston. I woke up and found that the snow had melted, the ice had mostly thawed away. The streets were clear and the air was warm. I…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  Feb. 2nd: It’s the night before the Spring semester makes an illegal left turn and crashes into my face. Immutably, as IAP drips to an end, I become terrible at…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Conner 2 Trip to the North End Bother bother bother bother

  

  A bunch of people from my floor decided to go to the North End to get pizza and pastries the other night. I didn’t feel like writing about it so…

  • by Snively '11
  • February 1, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  I’ve been reading many, many applications over the last month, and one thing that strikes me is that there are a lot of MIT applicants who like tennis, both playing…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  As I mentioned here, I’m taking a class called 2.670 during IAP this year. 2.670 is the class that almost every Mechanical Engineering sophomore takes during their IAP since it…

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  For a gaspingly radiant millisecond after I received my acceptance letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life’s hardships and stupidities were swept away from…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  Now that our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we have received, we have relaunched the MyMIT Application Tracking. MyMIT Application Tracking This is a good…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  So you’re interested in MIT. (Why else would you be reading these blogs) You’ve heard from various sources that things are hard, that people don’t sleep, and perhaps that Chris…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  Where to begin? Well, in order to understand me, what drives me, what might be my short term and long term goals, it’s important to go a little ways back…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  I am sure that many of you have read blogs about Greek life from some of our current all-star bloggers like Paul or even some of the superstar blogger alumni…

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  As of exactly one year ago, toys have completely taken over my life. I am officially the Conner 2 authority on anything colorful and plastic. How did this happen? 2.00b,…

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  UPDATE: After a tip from Pro-snowman league warning us of a possible attack on our epic snowman by the anti-snowman league, we started receiving reports that the snowman’s head had…

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  So it’s been cold lately. And when I mean cold, I mean like our-room-whose-temperature-usually-hovers-somewhere-between-the-sixth-and-seventh-circles-of-hell-on-a-good-day-was-even-cold type of cold. But seriously, I’m from Michigan, so Boston cold is still no big deal.…

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I’ve started my class. If you’re a mechanical engineer, attend MIT, and are a sophomore, IAP…

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009