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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham Allen, President of the Class of 1929 ... committee decided to adorn the bezel of the ring with the beaver and have a ... 1914, Lester Gardner of the MIT Club of New York proposed a mascot to

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

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  Morgan Sheng's lab in the Picower Center. I didn't get to see much of the ... advancement of knowledge comes through an unwavering commitment to the integrity of science We hold as our ultimate mission to understand the mysteries

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  ). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about ... intrigued. When I came to MIT, I knew there would be lots of famous ... 'd expect to hear talk at MIT. But there have been lots of speakers here on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own ... eventually."]instead of getting back to the people I need to get back to ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  school case of little town blues - that's just not worth it to me. Hey, we ... where you want to go. By itself, I think the T is kind of expensive, but ... offers 57334534923 (not a hyperbole) convincing reasons to attend, to me

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  intensive project hence (most of) my absence from the blagosphere. BUT I ... . :-) BUT I had to share a particular incident with you today as I was walking ... is a group that screens movies on campus) and one of the movies was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  , who was one of MIT's Educational Counselors, or ECs. He had retired to ... serves to amplify the strongest parts of your file. I remember several of ... place to watch the Red Sox-Yankees games. I hope I make it out of New York

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  , and a bag of charcoal delivered, and have a barbecue ready to go by 5pm ... giddy, I sent a flurry of e-mails to New House exec, to New House as a ... House, and the thought of having to feed all of them, plus visitors from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  and feel obligated to write about 5th of November/Guy Fawkes ... to Midsummer Commons along with a sea of people. I was worried that I ... class last week (in Chinese, of course). I didn't see any masks over here

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  'll need to confirm that you're really who you say you are, of course, so if ... variety of prefrosh guest bloggers during CPW. This has been done in the past with great success, and I'm looking very forward to this year

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  and feeling a sense of closure to the '10 cycle. Congrats to all the members of MIT '10 - and to those who were not admitted to MIT this year, I ... Oh, boy, I feel like I have so much to tell you guys and yet things

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  to the class of 2018. If there’s an event in your area, you should ... attended in the Bay Area of California in the spring after I was admitted to ... Swinging by the Big Apple this weekend? Come to one of our largest admitted

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... of applications I still have to read. The other work (yes, other work ... I have responded to all of your comments and emails (this time, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and ... don’t seem to have any pictures of this fabled field, but Mai Chau is a ... good bonfire, our group of five decided to take a look at what was

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of ... prohibited. Consideration should be given to the rights of roommates at all ... ." Viksit, I can't tell you what your chances are of admission to MIT, because

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  applications. Thank you. Again, congratulations to the newest members of the Class of 2024. I'll be closing comments on this post to focus the ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  applications. Thank you. Again, congratulations to the newest members of the Class of 2023. I'll be closing comments on this post to focus the ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2023 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  area of pedatrics and i would like to know if and when i apply to MIT ... to medical school" Definitely! A lot of people at MIT (about 10%, I've heard!) consider themselves to be on a premedical track. Many of them are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  to tell, and it was one we can all relate to: the story of falling in ... ; To the MIT Class of 2016 and anyone else who was listening, he imparted ... the area. Because of this, she didn't have to spend all day walking

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  wanted to go to college, and I had a few ideas of where I wanted to apply ... factor." MIT was one of the schools I applied to because it was "that ... of my shorts and trying desperately to find a date to prom. Then one

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006