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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  President Richard Maclaurin."We first thought of the kangaroo, which, like ... Following up on JKim's entry about excitement for the unveiling of the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at MIT

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

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  small bump in the mat changed the whole trajectory of the bot. And then we ... progression. One day, the robot may score a lot of points. The next day, the ... again. Even though a majority of the attempts were spent watching the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  awesomeness is how to keep track of it all! In the past, we've given our CPW ... spent most of the last week working on stuff for Campus Preview Weekend ... well over 600 events over the course of a few days, and the prefrosh add

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  first black president of the United States. (If you are, in fact, kidnapped, and this was the first thing you decided to read instead of sending ... first African American president of the United States, was about to give

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  . But the AI is *horrific* and totally kills the realism of the whole ... them and the villains especially are hard to keep track of - again, I ... next day. I'm pretty proud of the number of games I've spent time on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  Two of my friends from UCLA are visiting, and we have had a busy first day. They both flew in early this morning, and we spent the whole ... for the first time ever I saw Ben Affleck on the sidewalk!

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 30, 2006
• 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 ... proof of concept. I am so impressed by where the CSH team has taken this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  he fit in the aisle in front of the first fold-out seat. Here’s the ... end there were two of us in the first row, including the driver, three ... ’re jealous. Here’s what it looked like after the first round of clean

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  . "We first thought of the kangaroo, which, like Tech, goes forward by ... To go along with Chris' entry about excitement for the unveiling of the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  about it, he was going to do a slight analog of the quiz called the Keys 2 ... 'll wholeheartedly admit that I took a lot of pride in being an INFJ just for the sake that we made up less than 1% of the population (supposedly) and I really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  Lab talk/tour this afternoon...) Ben has been out of the office all ... taking advantage of IAP being, well, independent, and is elsewhere for the first three weeks of IAP, making for a nice 5-week vacation away from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  's New Groove for the first time with a bunch of people I barely knew, all ... darkening, and the whole outside park was covered with this thin layer of snow ... .[/annotation] I remember the first time the world made sense to me was during

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  part of me understands that the extent to which other people are put ... concern is probably the main evolutionary advantage of empathy - when you ... of the important points here is that there is a difference between

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  my 15.565 Digital Evolution: Managing Web 3.0 class, we learned of the ... is stored, accessed, and shared across a network of servers on the ... , drastically boosting productivity and solving one of the largest computer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  , and the sum of parts is always greater than the whole. I gained a much ... were to first discuss the strengths of the story, then address a list of ... worthwhile.   I took The Folklore of Gaelic Ireland for the fairies and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  these epic pictures of the riots fresh from Corey '10's camera, outside of ... every floor of the Burton side, followed by every floor of the Conner side ... &m's, the release of Leopard, dancing to Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now", and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Aiken concert Sunday night at the Bank of America Pavilion. Though I'm by far the biggest fan of American Idol at MIT, I was still a little ... imagine that you're walking toward that venue, with the intention of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  should I do now? First, focus on choosing the best fit college of those ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (the first few pages told from ... : An informative diagram that I doodled Here’s a list of all the books I ... = nonfiction) Summer 2015     New Reads: The Emperor of All

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  the end of the month. As for the online application -- which is how most ... 's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have ... the conclusion of freshman year, that student may choose from any of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006