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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at MIT officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and once, halfway through, for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  at 0530. I might have woken my roommates, but it was early enough that ... and accomplish my goals, both in my navy life and my life at school. I ... activity can make me more productive. The Navy ROTC program at MIT also

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  ¡Buenos días! from Spain! While these festivities are going on at ... on at MIT): 6. I'm in Europe because of 21F.782, which is a Spanish II ... every day (from 10 AM to 1 PM) and at least one test every day of class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  a desk job at the BNSF Railway's national operations center, working ... , by automobile - but at least it's not too long) and into my work ... up via Bluetooth to my GPS. I had to get out of bed and look at the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  Chamberlain claimed to have slept with almost 20,000 women. Since he was 56 at ... Perform it at your own senior recital! But tell me first so that I can ... impossible, or at least needlessly complicated. I got a lot of praise from the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  favorite author; I even met her a few years ago at a discussion/book signing ... . Anyway, she gave a talk on Thursday night here at MIT in 10-250, which is ... events that all happen to be occuring at the same time, usually not

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  Intercollegiate Service Organization (BISCO) and we have monthly activities at the ... the way there, we stopped at the North End playground to do some physics ... Constitution. We had an amazing lunch at an Italian restaurant in the North End

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard ... fall, for reasons unrelated to the pseudo-kidnapping, which took place at ... to plan. Marybeth Kravets, the college counselor at Deerfield High

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  go until he graduates, and then he hopes to stay at MIT to get his ... month of August off... sort of. I am not so good at the "do nothing" thing ... , we're also planning to go to Water Country at least once with our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  stirs up toxic sediment. And as long as I'm at it, an excerpt from the 6 ... fortress at Barad-Dur is rebuilt on the land of 10-250. The Exam yearns to go ... the entire world, like Princeton Review says? Well, just take a look at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  Nance made his way to the world on January 11, 2006 at 10:40 pm. My wife ... Section!! He was 9 pounds 15 ounces and 22 inches long at birth. My wife was ... she considers her brother to be a threat. At best, she thinks he's pure

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  winnings of 500%, I will never gamble again in my life. Anyway, I was at ... Christmas-themed egg, which I colored last week at Kate's house. My beloved ... Harrisburg, we stopped at a gas station and I just had to check out some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  I took the red-eye from LAX to Boston -- the flight leaves LA at 9:30 PM and gets into Boston at 6 AM. Come on, that's just evil.) but I ... Adam and me up to their family's condo at Sunday River in Maine (because

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  I met sophomores Boris Alexeev and Shaye Storm three years ago at a ... ten-year olds (and even staring at the pretty graphs on his poster), I ... graphs. (At this point he broke it down into pieces that even I could

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  'll describe to you my morning. I woke up this morning at 8.50 AM to a phone ... interview at 3.45 PM. Now do keep in mind that I went to sleep at about 4 am ... at 10 am and figuring out what tie to wear this morning was a bit of an

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  Yesterday was the first day of classes at MIT. I remember the ... a first term freshman at MIT? What you'll generally see is something ... examples, I went to the Facebook and looked at the class schedules of some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  make assumptions about applicants. At the Harvard Admissions Institute ... hearts and true passions. I mentioned to the group that at MIT we look for ... accomplishments at a full-time job that he balanced with his high school curriculum

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  , and I live in the house now. This picture was taken at Susan Hockfield ... , I'll give you three statements and at the end of this entry, I'll tell ... try to tell you about all the awesome things going on at MIT and the

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

  Nerd movie update

  

  digital animation work on his first film. He is working at Pixar, and is a ... (EECS, or Course 6) at MIT, so if you're interested in working on the next ... author of Hitchhiker's Guide, spoke at MIT while I was still a student in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  I had a great time last week at ISEF. This is what it looked like: 1400+ students and 1100+ projects from across the world were at ISEF. One ... students: Renaldo (who I'm looking forward to seeing this summer at MITE2S

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005