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  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  cinnamon sticks at Dominos without even having to pick up the phone. But ... blog entry and get back to one of my two 20 page term papers. I will

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  Here at MIT, just about everything is referred to by its number. To get from East Campus to LaVerde's Market, you enter Building 66, pass ... to any member of the MIT community via a Web page) reveals that this

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... industrialized nations. Some two decades later, as an economist and professor at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  oldest and best known award for international study," includes among its ... , Honolulu, Hawaii, is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... pianist at the same professional performance level as students at the finest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  lot of new people. And when I look at my experience last year overall ... intern! I was really happy that I finally had a job, and a chance acquire ... , just relax at home, study Japanese, etc. But luckily, again, I told the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  Redmond, WA And what are you up to? Product mechanical engineer intern at ... trips at points this summer, to places around Boston, etc. And GREs ... ? I am doing an internship at Institut Néel, learning how to simulate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  cited (at 39) to "An Analytic Survey of Legacy Preference,", which appears ... any data, but instead itself cites (at 84) “No Distinctions except Those ... legacy-granting MIT.” (emphasis mine) Here they cite (at 371) the “MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  judging eyes trying to count just how many times so far. I imagine at this ... troubling affliction, particularly on long international plane trips and also ... drive from Boston to San Francisco. -At night, they light up the Niagara

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  women at the Institute (MITRA NOTE: I have pictures of this, and will ... seminars by Cap & Compass, including Translating Day 1: At Work and ... you ever feel slightly uncomfortable at formal dinners? Do you feel the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  a speaker pointed at the performers instead of the audience, so that ... equipment; i think i got better at event planning in the process i won ... me a few days to process that i was done with a cappella for at least

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  at MIT happens more often than some people do laundry. Best to get it over with, soak up the life lessons, and hope for a brighter future. At ... retrospect, at least I built character. Now please excuse me while I check my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  has, but on the page about MacGregor housing there is only wired ... 'm not sure how high the ceilings are, but I guess they must be at least ... (or copy a page out of somebody else's lab notebook), but I've done most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  ) paper. This 13-page masterpiece (cough) for 21A.260, on cross ... humanistic academia. At a certain level of analysis, we're a little like oil ... weather and went out to Chili's for dinner, then shopped a little at The Pru

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  students at MIT). Sutejiro Yukichi was one of my favorite international ... It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at ... inevitably there is at least one final post by a student in their final year at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  and surf your friends' profile pages for 14 hours each day. (I know, I ... have international options like London, Mumbai, or Shanghai. Getting a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  wasn't enough, which is, unfortunately, a common occurrence at MIT. i'd done perhaps 70% of the lab at this point, but due to the way this lab ... i had an essay i'd barely started that was due at 5pm. my friend casey

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  University presidents are the black suit-wearing overseers who sit at the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with looks of disapproval. Except they're not like that at all. They're vibrant

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

    (And he gives you a look at the brass rats from 2000-2010 :D) And ... hidden symbols, visit this page.) Ring Premeire was the first time in a long, long time that we remember seeing all of my class at one place at

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at MIT officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and once, halfway through

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at MIT officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and once, halfway through, for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008