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  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 / 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 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 / 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
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  Beaver, with a built-in AI that you can have conversations with ... I've been cleaning up my collection of drawings in Procreate, and I ... suggestions for MIT merch" Date: March/April 2024 Premise: I saw a notebook in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... participants, including ~15k in the United States last year. Bebras USA is led ... International Olympiad in Informatics, and Rob Kolstad, the former lead coach of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  now know almost everyone who sent a picture in, and ironically one kid ... , bad joke.) who may or may not like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, I didn't ask. He maintains that he is in fact NOT making a

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  ; armadillo - A small set of drawers common to a select few dorms. beaver - The ... Institute Requirement. A class that all undergraduates must pass in order to ... balloon pop out of the field in the middle of the Hahvahd-Yale football game

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  , "I'm so confused. MIT has a beaver? But so does Caltech." Right. The Beaver, nature's engineer, was adopted as MIT's mascot in 1914 (my googling skills weren't good enough to figure out when Caltech adopted the beaver

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  beavers in the wee hours of the morning (like right now). What's up next in ... , in all seriousness: Wow - in just one more day, I will not have ... 've been MEANING to, but I just simply never got around to it! Actually, in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008