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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  peculiarly our own. The beaver is noted for his engineering, mechanical skills ... spent a lot of time closely inspecting and growing a deep love for the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  A year back I developed a deep interest in understanding what made me who I am. This all started when moving to Cambridge for a year caused a ... understanding of how my Ethiopian and American roots played a part. For example, I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  store was empty, except for the owner and his friend, who looked at us ... were doing astronomy research for the summer. His face lit up, in the way

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  more that we haven't found yet. This is Revenge for yesterday. There was ... .. The next morning, we piled into cars for a field trip to Green Bank

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  lessons along the way: 1) For the grittiest frosting you'll ever taste (feel ... graphic design for personal websites, music videos, robotics and circuitry

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  piercing and I decided to tag along, ostensibly for moral support but ... and relaxing music. We picked out our studs for the next eight weeks and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  timing, too. My flight is about to leave for Sacramento where family and turkey await; I gave myself a strict no-homework policy for the next few

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Last Saturday, when I should be working on a model of a performance space for my architecture studio, I got a call from my friend saying that Lifehouse is performing for free across the river. I decide to take an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  dreams happen. For me, "being an architect" was not my childhood dream, or ... would tell my freshman self to explore more and don't be rigid for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  some connection to Judaism; they auditioned for Techiya because they ... ’re a freshman on pass/no record, I say go for it. It’s good to

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  position and had no pulse for a good 40-50 seconds. He said the likely cause ... brought with me to India is already half-full. For a rural-tribal hospital

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  November means a lot of things for different people. Thanksgiving and turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the ... worse – the dreaded neckbeard. And for something entirely automatic

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  Achilles heel. It’s not for want of trying. I bake a lot; last summer I kept ... practical to know how to ask for help, how to focus on what you can improve

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  forward to lots more puzzles over the next few weeks so thanks for sharing

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  for Secondary School Reports. The day after the document is entered into ... ready for review. It takes a lot of time to do all of these steps -- think

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  instinct was Method 2, you'd also show a natural talent for parallel parking ... pairs. Or triplets. Or where n-tuplets, where n = n+1 for every time that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  signature. He won a Pulitzer for literature, not for autographing.) It almost

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  and A Canticle for Leibowitz. Students consider genre protocols and how ... within a genre or between genres for round-table workshopping. Enrollment

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  like SecureFX and WinSCP. We're also responsible for knowing enough HTML ... brand new admissions post is on the front page for you all to read.

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  managed to find my way back to Sidney-Pacific for the night. My host Tina ... for me everything I thought MIT would be, and more. The academics were

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008