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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  of 12 people chosen at the end of freshman year to represent the class ... first). There's an extensive entry on Wikipedia; I would link to all the ... going to tell you to go here instead and start reading. Back when she was

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  yesterday, Jeanne's phone rang and we went to meet our overnight guest (who ... my floor after an effort to microwave a bagel pizza went terribly ... professors perform to demonstrate level curves and rotational modes? Not

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  the last of my six Course 9 elective classes, and it's looking to be one ... not use any notes. <!--Jess and I are --!> I have been trying to ... . (Please send any hypotheses you may have to keri-lee at mit dot edu. I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  , and Chris M.!): M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree By TAMAR LEWIN ... the closest you can get to living in the Internet," and Ms. Chinea ... admissions office has been so ready to welcome uncensored student writing. "A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  have had to wait patiently, doing PSETS, taking tests, and generally ... and you see somebody with a brass rat on then you know they went to MIT. And they're not hard to miss, they're massive, gaudy, and absolutely

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  to do well in Orgo? It's supposed to be the most basic of all my ... differentiation that you had to learn, and there were so many things that didn't make sense to my young and undisciplined mind. I don't know if it was the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  Happy holidays to all! I am writing this post for several reasons ... countdowns. 4. I've been meaning to write a post like this since the big TV ... most shows are taking holiday breaks, I've been able to catch up a bit on

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  It's a little-known fact that McCormick Hall is home to not only ... sailing, suffered two blows to the head from a wayward mast, pretended to ... . Say I had to limit my inaugural entry to a mere 6 hours of my time on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  To take a leaf out of Sam's book: DID YOU KNOW? Charlotte ... the last six hours, and have another eight to go. But this isn't about ... to take pictures of baggage claim, if you're into that kind of thing

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  We frequently get requests to blog about transfer admissions, and now ... any to do so. The numbers for this year look remarkably like they did ... lot of great students we weren't able to admit. It's true that MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  here: To celebrate the movie release, I am declaring this weekend to be ... take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me ... people pictured (I'll only publish first names), and any reactions to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  every year.) Having said that, there are of course many of you to whom we were not able to offer admission, and I am feeling equally sad about that ... me blog her results sometime. ;-) Anyway, I need to go get some things

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  and feel obligated to write about 5th of November/Guy Fawkes ... felt compelled to go. So after eating dinner at my college, I headed over to Midsummer Commons along with a sea of people. I was worried that I

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  them a pale appearance. History has not recorded what happened to these ... -conditioned (!) hostel room, listening to the dude above me snore, and I thought that ... bajillionth time, I should make good on my promise to write something from Spain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  planning committee, I feel it is my duty to share with you all the exciting event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among ... the building with the red lights directly to the right of the Prudential

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  asylum in Iceland. I was just about to get some sleep last night--I had to ... !" Okay, well that's only my favorite episode of Star Trek EVER, next to the ... Decker fail to save the universe with his well-intentioned but ultimately

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a ... . Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific question, and then use a measurement device to validate our hypothesis. But

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  yesterday for the 20th annual AIDS Walk San Francisco. Thanks to your many generous donations, I qualified as a Star Walker, and was eligible to wear a ... special. I owe a huge thanks to Tiffany '06 (white hat) and Accenture

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike ... of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe ... enough to get me thinking about giving up my Dell and lucky Asics. If I end

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a ... had to laugh out loud when the presenter hit the button and put the live

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006