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• 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 ... members from the classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932. Their mission was to ... . Why? Because it is made of gold and features a beaver on the front. Why

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  drawing a sad smiley on the final page of a difficult midterm and hoping you ... got the sense of how beyond the 1400 pages of our textbook and the words ... home. The first round of admissions decisions will be out soon, and the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  of London, Paris, and Amsterdam. It was the perfect reset before coming ... 't even quite understand what right means in this case. I spent the first ... I missed and loved the Boston-Cambridge area. I also just really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  , the solo performance I'm most proud of was spinning to "The Rockrose and ... different times in the same week—twice for classes, once for a club—and each ... , and training for months, I learned to befriend the flame. Similarly, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  being featured on the coveted pages of Chop Stir Hack? First, we dormspam ... below, Elizabeth '13 and I were modestly involved at the beginning of that ... , with the addition of brunch on weekends and holidays. Maseeh serves lunch

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  , and realize the projects of your dreams!" Head on over to hackmit ... It's that time of summer again. HackMIT, one of the largest ... registration between July 1st and July 30th. From HackMIT's website: "Hack

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  some of my favorite websites for news and updates, but I have this tendency of opening too many windows so my computer crashed and I had to ... among physicists: They have become the first to create a new type of

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  particular, the first-year website has all of this and more! I sound like an ... of 18.01 in the first six weeks of fall term and covers 18.02 straight ... biology first term, though: Eric Lander, one of the leaders of the Human

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Airbnb in the suburbs of Phoenix and literally had no other books left ... , and the son ventures in to find traces of his father. His mother knows ... going on. The story is told in both the mother’s point of view and the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  Throughout high school and my first two years of college, I ... assignments, you can filter and sort the table and view it in multiple of ways ... colors and and symbols throughout the page. The pretty sky on top is a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  Roast is a celebration of mud, meat, and music. Mud, because of the mud wrestling pit and matches. Meat -- well, that's obvious from the name of the ... ) and used one to play half of a song on his bass." Apparently, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  blog entry and get back to one of my two 20 page term papers. I will ... So the other day, I was totally out of food. Like, completely. I hadn't been grocery shopping for weeks, and after making a meal out of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  harder, driven by a lack of breaks and the persistence of pandemic ... navigating turbulent waters.  The worst part of the whole ordeal has been the ... from day to day, and every week presents its own time crunch. One of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  hear, this class was just created this year, and this is the first ... new class on the topic of field (that is, "in situ") and laboratory ... milestones leading to the planning, execution, write-up and presentation of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  all of our completed applications to them and they shipped the whole ... . I did the following two pages of it: …before finding out that my ... and the current is flowing west and a school of goldfish is exerting a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  my favorite read of the week. The front page article in the Arts ... bridges and become the first Asian pop star to succeed in America. A few ... the papasan and catch up on some reading. This weekend, I got so caught

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  you for several reasons. The first (and, sadly, primary reason) is that ... dwindling rapidly (for a variety of reasons) and blogging is one of the few ... sale for $409.00 and I pulled the trigger. It's a Canon XS and my first

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  parts of the world but different mindsets and interests that create an ... Jerry on the subway to the aquarium trip. I kind of got adopted in and am ... personally did not have a great time during REX, and was on the verge of not

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  , before we know anything of the plot, we are given a spoiler to the whole ... page’s deep voice, of imagining a better world. it was the last musical i ... of the broader community and not just a student who will be here for a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  , and eventually moved out of East Campus (ec). it was not only the dorm i ... of college, and i guess life as a whole, is finding forms of it. i was ... on and on and on, but i won’t. [annotation note='i think the piece of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023