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Because it seems to be the theme of Paul's blog.
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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.
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 ... , for the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in -
FAQ / Academics and research
What’s the School of Science like?
The six departments in the MIT School of Science are consistently ... ; Mathematics; and Physics. Members of our community study deep philosophical questions: What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95 -
Blog / About Decisions
Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.
A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you ... very, very proud of your accomplishment. To those of you who didn't get ... the vast majority of applicants, most of whom were qualified to be here -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."
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 ... the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman -
Blog / Hacks
A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters
Another CPW has come and gone, and with it the throes of prefrosh ... for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of ... down in your work day in and day out. Of course, CPW brings out the best -
FAQ / Academics and research
What is CSAIL?
When people think of MIT, they think of computers, robots, and internet—CSAIL is all of those things. The Computer Science and Artificial ... of the world’s most important centers of information technology -
Blog / MIT Life
Class of 2009 note #2
Many of you have already received it, but for those of you anxiously ... The i3 project features all 11 of MIT's dorms. The preliminary housing ... funding for the very first i3 project, and several of my very close friends -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue
Ah, glorious government holidays! Happy Fourth of July! Enjoy the day off, free street parking, copious amounts of barbequed meat, and beautiful displays of explosives. That is... as long as your weather report -
Blog / Hacks
Mario Institute of Technology hack Laura's entry on an awesome hack.
Laura ’09 captured today’s awesome hack… check it out! -
Blog / Challenges
Anatomy of a Late Night There are some problems caffeine can't solve. But only a few.
2 liters of Mountain Dew: $2.75 Mint Milanos: $3.39 Artichoke Spinach Hummus: $2.99 Wheat Thins: $2.29 Getting all your work done... priceless And now, I sleep, perchance to dream... -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.
Happy Lunar New Year from Peggy and the Office of Admissions! Here are the results of this year's new year mini-contest! (Remember, this will have no impact on admissions) "The source of inspiration was the -
Blog / Admissions
In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family
killed in the line of duty by the Tsarnaev brothers on April 18th, 2013. Sean was a beloved campus police officer, a member of the MIT Outing Club, and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to -
Blog / Admissions
Welcome MIT Class of 2009!
about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be! In the meantime, all of you '09s should check out the Firstyear site ... ... yes, we're now thinking about the MIT Class of 2010 (and beyond!). I -
Blog / Events
Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…
eclipse of the moon, in fact. The last one until 2010. You should go watch ... take a good photo of something that's over 360,000 kilometers away on a ... of the eclipse totally unworthy of viewing, and hide them from all of -
Blog / Hacks
A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.
I was out meeting a friend and some of her friends that I didn't previously know last night, and the topic of school came up. (SIDE NOTE: that ... think the problem stems from not having a good word for "friend of a -
Blog / Life after MIT
The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing
So one of the unfortunate parts of graduating is that you actually have to pack up your life from the past four years. No more of this, "I ... a member of the rowing team, I have had the same locker at the Pierce -
Blog / Academics & Research
Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!
Intensive) class, 14.33. Sam has also commented on one of his as well. My ... aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and Huxley model for the propagation of action potentials. The model is fairly -
Blog / Academics & Research
Taste of the Middle Ages
My 21H.927: Economic History of Work and Family teacher, Professor Anne McCants, ran an IAP event entitled "Old Food: Ancient and Medieval ... the Met(ropolitan Museum of Art)'s Medieval Art collection -------- -
Blog / Events
TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things
outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... 's always a TON of things going on. Since it's my senior year and I have this