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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  ? Questions from last entry will be answered when I get back to Beantown. Well ... " in the river. He represents the idea that no one at MIT succeeds due to ... getting used to, but now I feel funny if I don't wear it. After graduation

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  Gruder gets it. Satire is supposed to leave a mark. Advice about applying to ... being said about you. Your essays are the only time that you get to speak ... school I participated in a program called Youth in Government and (to my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  'd really been wanting to remedy. Specifically, I wanted to learn how to ... of this blog to see what others in this class created!) Step 1: Design ... figure out what its function was and how it matched to the Nano. I made

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  how we managed to fit three people in my single room. they stayed for a ... the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i ... of the time it was because i couldn't be bothered to get out of bed. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month ... dodge drunks in urine-filled street corners and go to sleep when the ... feeling of "solidarity" with any city that I have lived in, if you get my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Planned Mail Date: March 11

  

  In case you missed it: We plan to send freshman admissions decision letters on Friday, March 11, 2005 by regular mail. We know how nerve-wracking it can be to wait, but please give the mail a chance! If you don't get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  pasta shape -- we just used whatever was in our pantry. And to add some ... in another way, so there are too many variables to tell what caused our ... , so we boiled them to get them to the texture from the video. But our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  only, you can't get much closer to the fireworks barge. The nice folks at ... Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  how i managed to slide in"]seniors[/annotation]. i'm starting to gestate ... to already, or how many i'm going to frantically apply to in the week ... 't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to get into MIT, but really had no idea what it was like. I looked to a ... from actually loving it enough to achieve mastery. Playing the violin in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  .   (You'd be surprised how many people want to lick our airplane. It ... engineering gets, from the initial design brainstorming to the hours of mixing ... this weekend to keep y'all posted about how awesome our airplane is. I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  another place to me. I was getting so caught up in psetting, going to ... of the core aspects that caused me to work hard in high school. I would just dream of one day being able to live in my “Heaven on Earth” and 4

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  playground. And it felt pretty darn cool because I was no longer in a rush to ... Ohio Alumni Club get-togethers. Over spring break, I get to met the ... nice to live in a more relaxed East Campus in the previous months. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  So in my previous entry, I talked about how the Medlinks were ... Gabe '08 got one today, but I didn't end up getting one for myself. In 14 ... (decreased odds that I'll get sick) in a way for which I do not compensate him

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  ? And how did you get to be hosts? Are all the bloggers automatically ... pretty much ask anybody how to get to the Student Center (which is where ... ! Anonymous asked, "Hi, Mollie! How did you and Adam get matched up with your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  . Also, how did you manage to get your experimental procedures done within ... in a few ways. First, I've been known to come in before class to get ... to getting a debit or credit card in college when we have TechCash? Oh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  when it is in fact only mid-range cheap.  I get to my room. I’m allergic ... ; the machine is kind to me, has free seltzer and coffee in the break room ... ; two pairs of jeans; just enough socks, shirts, and underwear to get by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about ... getting in and not getting in, but you'd rather look your best throughout

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  correctly gets a prize. Then again, how would I even know what the correct ... -shirts, which were made by the good folks in LUChA. Awesome. Math question: if ... application (assuming you were in the applicant pool)? Knowing that each app

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  what never was. How sad that I couldn’t get to know deeply all the cities ... love going out; others hang out in my dorm. Most everyone will listen to ... , sharing in its energy, and talking to strangers you will probably never meet

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023