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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and ... , and 1932. Their mission was to design a ring to be used as the Standard ... decided to adorn the bezel of the ring with the beaver and have a three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MVEMJSUNP A contest!

  

  the Bell where Zach Morris joined the quiz bowl team but then the token nerd, Screech, got sick and Zach had to help carry the team. One of his ... -vehn-se-nup' But given that science likes to redefine itself every so often, it may

  • by Bryan
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  . My dad, as you might deduce from the letters and the year next to his ... -shirts, and other MIT paraphernalia, primarily because I'm much older (and well ... got the chance to buy one of these things. As it turns out, the Grad Rat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  some of them happened to be people I really “clicked with”, and we became ... making friends in general, I’d say that it does require effort. You have to create opportunities to make friends, with the understanding that you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... once) but it was hard to spend much time with as many people as I’d hoped ... creating my schedule pretty much the moment this year’s events leaked

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  choreography?" ...and then I choose to watch the videos that fall in the ... to perform because they're emotive and have some kind of intention in ... called MirrorTube to mirror and slow videos to 0.5x speed, as well as split

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  't feel much like an MIT student and I have a feeling that is only going to ... .  And it feels just as surreal as it felt when I got to campus for the ... secret numerical language everyone seemed to speak and I barely knew a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  graduation; and once, halfway through, for the unveiling of the class ring. The ... the ring bezel. After much debate, the committee decided to adorn the ... Brass Rat Each class year at MIT officially gathers three times -- once

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  , a number I like much better. Feel free to add any Chuck Norris facts ... to cut him in half and count the rings. - That's not Chuck Norris ... Law of Thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  similar to last summer, but the density was much more manageable, and you ... also observe that this is supposed to be a letter from 2024 janet and it ... in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  initial concern about how much to get, but my advisor does his marvelous job ... eating to the previous evening mostly sleeping, and had pretty much eaten ... all, it was a pretty nice day, and I’m willing to concede that MIT does

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  , you will get a sense of how much things cost. If you’re new to buying ... time in between classes to buy groceries and go back to the dorm. If you ... to buy and how to make them delicious.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  's answers, and not solvable with much less than that. To simulate how solving ... Cube commercials over and over to verify that the quotes were only said once, and ... what others contributed to the Hunt, and I will strive to assign credit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  to blog. I moved to Burton-Conner this year, which, much like East ... Timbaland, and Dima and Rich's classy tea parties (an invite was once extended ... number, size, and volume, to the point that people in China can almost no

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  One It's weird how we do so much that we don't stop and think about ... ", leading with a question like "what does it mean to be you?" or "what ... essays, splaying my life story to strangers in interviews, and thinking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  Green stopped in the middle of lecture at 11:22 to administer it, and it ... combustible form of water, which is created by an electrode and is perfectly ... to incompetent peer reviewers. And that is how science works. To take a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  so much for taking the time to meet with us. My name is Anna Ho, and I ... From Afar, and somehow I find myself here in DC to meet with my ... ’re going to change the world, and soon become disenchanted and frustrated

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and ... to understand rain and its effects on drinking water. I later realized ... matter of days breeds bacteria and mosquitos and can actually become much

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  Writing and Reading the Short Story, and 24.903 Introduction to Semantics ... new world and returning to the world of old." "New world?" "This world ... a titular, secret, worldwide organization aims to hide and contain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  merch, and does general stuff for the class. I, for some reason, ran my ... . Some weeks, there is a lot of work to do and at times, people (students and real adults) can be hard to deal with, especially since it is tricky

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023