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  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  what everyone will do next. I’ve never been more proud to share a Brass ... class ring tradition just under a century ago in 1927. The nickname “Brass ... ring — a design element that has persisted to the modern day. MIT

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  to stress or due to a (relatively) healthy sleep schedule my senior ... EST. I sigh a breath of relief and think to myself "maybe-- now that I've figured out the puzzle-- maybe now I will have a shot of being admitted

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  moment of glory is at hand. Do you have what it takes to be a hero?  Foo ... disappointment, a devil of a butler. We do entertain at your leisure so come by ... dissolved into the real world forever, the night air bites with a cold we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  for a tubular products company, TMK IPSCO. What I did not mention is ... to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  This summer, I started a new [annotation note="Undergraduate Research ... Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... Survey Satellite, or TESS, which is a NASA/MIT-led satellite that monitors

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  blogs to see what fun stuff the bloggers are doing; maybe they don't want ... readers, there might still be just one person, or one in a hundred, for whom ... trying to juggle a million things, I never have as much time to sit and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  've been quickly ushered in To a world that I confess I do not know But I ... "]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn ... get into MIT, but really had no idea what it was like. I looked to a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  On the first Friday of my last semester, I had a choice between two ... classes you can only take at MIT. Every week, we get a new guest speaker for ... speakers from our Professor: “He put this field on a strong footing…” “One

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  students here had dwindled down to single digits. I logged on to take a short ... is like taking a drink from a fire hose," right? (If you haven't, I ... classes at MIT is like riding a train whose speed increases exponentially

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  great place to learn, see, and do. That is a fact that does not change ... I'll begin with a flashback. Scene: On my way back from my daily ... my UROP advisor, Linda Griffith, with a variety of projects pertaining

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  "] Do I give more snowman-with-a-bad-fashion-sense or burnt ... lack of any holiday spirit inside of me, I have done a very minor amount ... at least a little holiday joy and optimism (whether or not you

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  First, let me start with a venerable and ancient blogger apology ... Communications and Special Projects — I am doing more writing than ever, but the kind that is often read by a half dozen people within MIT. It's sort of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  ! There are a ton of resources on campus for making and enjoying artwork ... arts at MIT, though, this post will just serve as a log of art ... might make it a series). One of my biggest goals this semester was to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  In case you haven't heard, MIT has a new president-elect! This ... to me late yesterday afternoon: "what are you doing between 10-11AM ... was going to be invited with a press pass, but if I couldn't make it, he

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  probably because the excitement of being at a new place never got replaced ... , i missed home. a lot. to the point where ‘i just wanna go home’ was ... acknowledging that i was homesick changed a lot of things for me. my roommate also

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  having a summer, only what The Ideal Nonexistent MIT Student would be doing ... strangers for a job, and three Skype interviews later, here I am! It turns out ... , linguistics...) are just right for a very particular project: looking at DEEDS

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  Once, while working as a cashier, I noticed that a customer’s total had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... woman made a face. “PI?!” “Did you say PI?!” “I said it’s like pi,” I

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit outside, that there must be light, that I must have a dry seat and a wifi

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  There are two things MIT students love—punts and puzzles. What a puzzle is—that’s pretty straightforward. A punt is more intricate, and is typically often used as a verb. It refers to an action or a series of actions

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  apostrophe!"  You're also thinking, "what does a second-year know about being a ... 's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good ... Universe but also might possibly be a magician, because: In 10 minutes he

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013