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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  The Brass Rat, the MIT class ring. MIT students get theirs sophomore year and wear the beaver "sitting" on them until graduation. At Commencement, the ring is flipped over so that the beaver is sitting on the world

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  was named as the recipient at the ceremony, I e-mailed this blurry

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  expectations. Although our project was complete and we had presented it at the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  volunteer summer camp counselor at a science museum, somehow impressed a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  Here at MITAdmissions we try to be transparent as possible about our process. This includes publishing admissions statistics beyond those contributed by MIT Institutional Research to the Common Data Set (i.e. what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  At about 10 am on Thursday there were about 100 people in lecture for 7.06, cell biology with Professor Iain Cheeseman. We were learning about how proteins made in the cell are marked for distribution to where

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  perspective for at least 45 seconds. Here it is, if you've missed it: "When

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  school for at least 3-5 minutes, it's hard to tell whether or not that was

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  this pursuit - I've personally only found and dined at two places within

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  protocols, I bike over to the Koch Institute for some par-tay time at the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  that, I've also been working at the Media Lab under the Lifelong

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  This summer, I'm working part-time at the Division of Student Life (in addition to still blogging for MIT Admissions - sorry eager blogging frosh-to-be, my spot's still taken, but we're looking for more bloggers

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  ;more scientifically." Probably not, at least to a significant degree. Sure, not

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  see if you can spot it: They looked right at home amidst Stata's alien

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  was in Woodie Flowers’ 2.70 design class at MIT – a story for another

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  beloved green covered in snow, and those from equatorial climates suffer at

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  umbrella of the Dept. of Geography at Tel Aviv University is the only Urban

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  crossing the river, and you look up to see the dome glowing at you, staring

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  first world problems, and then getting someone who works at Media Lab to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  presented to the professors and panel of jurors at the final review??? Panic

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011