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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three ... glad Which reminds me, to save more money Gotta get Dial Gold - as my ... to know." * Pursuant to legal mumbo jumbo, I am not employed by Dial

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  people are excited by that, because the cold, bleak winter is a tough time ... to handle. The cold though, especially up in the mountains, is ... try and get things done to graduate in June (eeep! real world! yikes

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  encouraged to attend by Tina (my host). My favorite was the parody of Justin ... 't get over this. Fortunately, the videos were preserved. When I hopped ... the background. I got my plane buddy Philip '12 to pull Tim the beaver

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  , which scared the hell out of me when I didn’t get admitted to other ... ’t get a section of the tap dance for THE LIFE OF ME, and I wanted to just ... time. I would get back to the dorm at midnight and collapse on someone

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  our tour! We didn't get to see everything, like the sailing pavilion ... hope you all get to explore them the next time there's a sunny day :) As ... the clouds, I was woken up this morning by birds, and we’ve now mostly

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  , I've already returned my MIT mug to the Coop. MOM: THAT'S NOT FUNNY. Okay, so, in retrospect it may not have been the best idea to freak my ... itself), which included a night out to Bartley's. On the first day of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  York and was getting depressed by the fact that I hadn't yet eaten at ... in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I ... *, I suggest hauling your personal belongings over to the South Station

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the ... them would now be able to go into any freshman class and get the same ... helping to dilate my blood vessels, and how this all related to the pressure

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  scanner. And my job, my one job that morning, was to get the check scanner to work. And I failed. Getting the check scanner to work is a tricky ... problem was getting my computer connected to the check scanner. Oh for the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  me, you need to know that my definition of LΔ is the following: (L ... quantity. For the purposes of this entry we will apply the concept of LΔ to ... relative to your beginning knowledge base and your overall effort within the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  make this plan more palatable to the residents. By the end of it all ... come next. I wanted to complete the Turnaround, I wanted to get freshmen ... by MIT policy and completely counter to the spirit of the turnaround

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Why is it called the Brass Rat?

  It's the goal of every incoming student at MIT to get their own Brass Rat—MIT's version of a class ring. The phrase "Brass Rat" is derived from the alleged resemblance of the brass beaver featured on the ring to
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts ... were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu ... 'm Rachel, possibly more frequently referred to by my Athena username, rfong

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the ... biggest things I think we want to get caught up in is the number game ... is supposed to be fun; don't let the application get you even before

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  Though I usually try to avoid being serious on the blogs, I've always felt truly honored to be an MIT admissions blogger, and by 'always' I ... our tireless devotion to describing, in unnecessarily sordid detail, the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  (paradoxically, we will do more to get a free T-shirt than we will for the amount ... As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of ... , all of which are numbered very inconsistently with respect to the usual

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  So another school year came to a close, and so begins the season of sun and fun. The class of 2005 graduated, and it was really awesome to ... to liven it up. I'm slowly adding some other random things to the cube

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  hungrily gaze upon the little pieces on the screen as they hop from square to ... gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening ... dedicated myself to the black and white pieces on the board and learned the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  to have the best taste in music on campus, they tend to get the best ... ) and used one to play half of a song on his bass." Apparently, the ... audio or pictures of this concert? Would love to hear it / see it... The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  you really dropped the ball". So, here's to accountability! Get Fit gym four times a week I started going to the gym when I came to MIT and ... this year will be the year! Get Rich save $3000 dollars by end of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020