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

  

  -called brass rat, a touchstone of MIT culture with a long and illustrious history ... media as a sort of wink-and-a-nod that a character attended MIT, perhaps ... Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student

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

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  , thinking about turkeys, and then got depressed when we go online and none of ... to be honest, instead of thinking, "Wow I've been in England for 2.5 months already!" I've been more along the lines of "I can't believe it

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  “Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our ... tenth grade, I put a similar lamp and mug on the floor of a dorm room

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  and 2-5 friends can ask any of your professors out for a feast, to any ... ??" Gather your friendship dinner crew and choose a professor. Cordially invite him/her out to an evening banquet. Register online and have all

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  experience and the sorts of relationships we form necessitate the sort of ... , philosophical and critical things about the current state of humanity. I would get ... , theatrical devices, use of objects, lighting and staged sound, characters

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  (See Bryan's entry for more pictures of and information about the ... . After dinner, I hopped on the Boston West SafeRide and went to Zeta Beta ... ) The chef at ZBT is wonderful, and I enjoy many of her creations -- flan

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab?

  The Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) was created to coordinate and promote water and food research at MIT. MIT’s efforts are aimed at a future in which the world’s water and food needs are
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  , and his colleague(s) had simply been deleted. Based on Fassbinder’s early precursor to films like The Matrix and Tron, World of Wires offers stiff critique of both the genius and the fallibility of virtual

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  dwelling on that. While some of my friends have completed their requirements in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me ... end up broke and homeless? :X I feel so out of touch with everyone

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The ... creation of the Black Student Union and the Undergraduate Association ... a new way, rational inquiry and social concern...the ethos of talking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  of our favorite books, and then prefrosh who signed up for the giveaway ... impostor. one of the songs i’ve put on repeat recently is kodaline ... i lived on floorpi for a year and a half. it feels like it’s been one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  where to spend the next four years of your life. It's a huge decision, and ... sorts of things in the past month that have distracted me from blogging ... of the MIT Undergraduate Research Journal preparing for MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  One last bit of advice Before all hell breaks loose

  

  Every year it happens and every year there is sadness. Please don ... shooting stuff out of air cannons, doing a ridiculous physics problem, or building something awesome. Don't spend it flaming people on the Internet

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell and she is responsible for some of the biggest lessons that I ... . When she came to visit and saw cows on campus, you can imagine her ... presence and I credit her with keeping me up on my peeps. As you can see

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  an external contractor. past years of 16.82 and 16.83 (the analogous ... superior and more rigorous to the so-called "soft sciences." MIT's school of ... classes started last wednesday! here's a cross-section of my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  collected data about the number of steps I’ve taken and flights of stairs I ... back tomatoes (a favorite) and a ton of oranges. After returning to Mac ... drove up from New York with (way too many) of my remaining bags and boxes

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  , earn a bit of money, and begin exploring some random careers. I ... students to help staff events and run registration—it’s only a couple of days ... coffeehouse, back in the day when this space on the 3rd floor of the student

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  friends, and a conference for Camp Kesem. More updates on the flip side of ... After two and a half years here, you’d think I’d know most or all of ... Electric Vehicle Team, Formula SAE, Marine Robotics Team, and more - all of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  ’s observations on climbing plants and the similarity of their strategies to those ... on the brightness of burning magnesium, a call for more systematic disease research, and a comparison of petroleum and coal in the same issue

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  with a bunch of friends on Thursday, having a great time, and then going ... feelings again. I also then took myself out on a solo date of sorts and got ... there's also a lot of incredibly fun and freeing things that I've been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023