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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  final day of school in the comments, graduation day doesn't count unless ... worth of photos to put in my blog and writing my entries, I thought it ... spell MIT -A beaver. -The nerdiest/coolest thing you can find -The largest

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  Abstract Ring Delivery is a time-honored tradition in which Massachusetts ... of emotions leads individuals to document their experience in odd ways ... most common group pose found at Ring Premiere, in which several people

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  so I could stand around the track in the athletic center for several ... capture the huge number of people milling around in caps and gowns. I ... the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  started looking around for things to stir thoughts in my head, a stimulus of ... that were too high in quality), eventually, I came up with the idea of ... school. It made my 57 units look tame. They were enrolled in 84 units, and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  -illustrated incarnation of MIT’s mascot Tim the Beaver']Tim[/annotation]has become a ... ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the ... do you mean  “I could choose to Double major in  Eating and sleeping

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  that he is, in fact, at MIT. Tim the Beaver beams at the camera ... Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW attendees based on their representation of MIT's revelry in unjaded vitality

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  . The beaver sits on a dam made from eight ivy leaves and a pinecone. In ... booing. Some roared in disbelief. Others murmured to their friends. I saw ... Brass Rat design, we decided to abandon the beaver and use an actual rat

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  John Harbison is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in ... an impulse buy of some Star Wars: Episode III valentines the other day ... 't really talk. I guess they assumed that the kind of person who would buy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  stationed at the front desk in room 3-108 for the last 20 years. If you called ... admissions officer on duty. If you emailed, [annotation note="In fact, she sent ... school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  follow Nance's "Beaver" act, but managed to draw a few laughs. I was ... experience in all the labs on campus. It's one of the many things that make MIT unlike any other school in the world. As a freshman, you can work in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  In my last days at MIT, I painted this mural on my hall. I ... 's painted on for a while, too: earlier in my senior year I'd stripped a off ... about it. In a single day, I had a base coat up, went shopping for paint

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  usual Watching Barry I made a low-poly beaver in Blender [caption id ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... MIT). This is what I do in the day, except for weekends. Not only do I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  ...eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees...let's talk ... form in plenty of time, thank you very much. (The tenth page was discovered this morning in my scanner. I never took it out after making copies

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  assigned reading (ie. the myriad blog entries regarding Ring Premiere in the ... ), and I am proud to present this year's Ring Premiere to you in words ... February 6, 2009, you know that something's up in the air. :) The night

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  glee and sugar in the elevator to the fifth floor. The chocolate and ... played a part in that total happiness. So did the welcome event and ... photography display, the artificial intelligence exhibit, and the t-shirt in the

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  'd fill you in on some of MIT's not-so-well-known secrets. No, this isn ... price that you end up paying. In short, this is my brief, informal guide ... useful if you want to refresh a skill you haven't used in a while, or if

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  in like 2011. Take a selfie with TIM the beaver ⛔ TIM the beaver has ... This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started ... grad dorms are pretty easy for me to forget. Participate in a UROP… or

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  In late August, the Trump Administration issued an executive order ... of uncertainty and consternation. I write today, as I have in the past ... eventually serve in the military or in the MIT ROTC program. MIT has a long

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  Every new freshman class gets, in their Orientation folders, a little ... that I've actually done, including getting published in the Tech. In ... on it are rather boring ("Get your picture taken with Tim the Beaver

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  stories we wear." - Worn Wear Buying new stuff is fun. It provides that ... puffy jacket will always remind me of certain backpacking trips in the Sierras, or favorite climbs in Yosemite. Gear becomes attached to specific

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014