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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  kidnapped Baxter because he smells funny and no one on the floor likes him. If ... place it on the dining table of the 132 suite at precisely 12:10 AM on ... back home, and I would like to thank everyone who helped in the effort to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  . This is the first rat I've seen in a commercial, though. And it leaves me ... attend MIT and decide to wear the ring in the ad? Is this deep-level nerd ... Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  many pink dresses come to 2.009 :D

  

  -- and we've each come up with a unique product, and have spent the last ... asked my teammates, too. And everyone delivered! In the last two days I ... with warmth and reminds me to cherish the community we have here

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  was still unfinished, and so I finshed typing it on the bus ... I would write about Fireflies.   So, I clicked on the “export ... proofread what Sam had sent me. The last task on my list was to add in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you want to know? Tell me something.

  

  I could say a million things about MIT and what it's like to be here, but I think it's probably best if I share information that is of ... about and I'll try my best to write about them over the next few entries.

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Stop You're hurting the wrong people.

  

  To the person who keeps posting hurtful things to my blog and to Matt's, pretending to be "YJ" and others, please stop. It's one thing to mess with me or Matt - understandably, we represent MIT, with which you are

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  it really is beginning and so it begins

  

  everyone is getting ramped up for probably one of the most exciting times of the year, Orientation. In about 10 minutes, we start our pre-orientation program (FPOP) Discover Biology. We'll be out until midnight, but i'm really

  • by Bryan
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  . In between the airports and time zones is the real story. A Flying ... connection and decided to walk around the airport, and apparently, I'd ventured ... hope. The next morning I managed to get a flight out, and I was off to

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  one person enters the building now, it will be empty again,” the ... Judging by the facebook group "I Wish I Were Your Derivative So I ... ...here's one she loves to tell (copied from an article in the American

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  and the other in blue (or green). The filters on the glasses allow only ... that charge, my friends and I were able to score free tickets to the New ... , and the glasses cause one of the images to enter one eye and the other

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  , she is a graduate student at Harvard, and is still involved with the MIT ... neat (and Emmy-nominated!) series called The Secret Life of Scientists ... , and really important, research work. Would you like to hear the short

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the advanced math education world.* Here's something that's going on: AoPS and ... the opportunity to collaborate on a large research project with top

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Bernanke to speak at Commencement!

  

  MIT just announced that Ben Bernanke '79 is going to be the ... history of the MIT Department of Economics and its graduates. MIT ... by President Bush to succeed Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  Did you know? "Nemo" is Latin for "no man" or "no one", and the name of the movie was a little joke by Pixar. And I refuse to bow to the ... undergrads and grads coming together to pelt snow at each other - and the fact

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  -WITS is the brainchild of a MIT course 2 alumnus, and it's basically an ... responsible for the first appearance of Smurfs. The Foreign Languages and ... used to watch Smurfs as a child; I even had the video game on Atari. OK

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I get a copy of MIT Facts?

  MIT Facts is a pocket-sized compendium of essential facts about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unfortunately, we don't mail the booklets, but you can find it online!
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted in EA!

  

  Congratulations on your acceptance to the class of 2017!   This is what you look like right now -     Go ahead and introduce yourselves. :-)

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Why no blogs!? I'm busy, ok?

  

  Why no entries lately? Because MIT's Freshman Orientation is in full swing and everybody on campus is crazy busy. With what? Stuff like the East vs. West Water War from yesterday. Photos courtesy of our ever

  • by Snively '11
  • August 25, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted Posting for admitted students.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2010! Feel free to use this post's comments space to introduce yourselves to your future classmates (and, later this week, look for new stuff on your MyMIT portal).

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Elephants? I see a lot of weird stuff around here.

  

  Well, you don't see this every day. 10 elephants cruised down Mass Ave and turned left onto Memorial Drive, parading right past Killian Court. I'm waiting for someone to put one on the dome. Coming soon

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 6, 2005