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  The Secret Life Of Marilee Jones Sam is the funniest, though... BOTB and CPW Feedback.

  

  Marilee Jones. Now I don't think you'd really get to have the chance to see ... to see Tim the Beaver crowd surf and listen to Marilee on the ... supportive punch in the face. Tim the Beaver goes crowd-surfing. Marilee

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  which classes you are able to take as a freshman. I took the test in June ... ...eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees...let's talk about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  to invite new friends from all over the world onto our campus. But in ... participate in the exciting annual engineering competition, BeaverDash. Beaver ... competition to compete later in the day for great prizes. Free t-shirts and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  excellent introduction to maker culture and allows you to get dirty in hands ... get taught to use them, and if you already know how to, you just prove ... not had the energy to do so this semester! Let's get right into it

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  , back in the day, we used to get our decision letters in the mail. I'm a ... the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a ... all stayed in the right order. Not a single thing was ever explained to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  follow Nance's "Beaver" act, but managed to draw a few laughs. I was ... Research Opportunities Program and allows MIT undergrads to get research ... lab of a Nobel Laureate, get a paper published, and go to professional

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  /tooling/hacking, to the class-specific inside jokes, it’s cloaked in tradition. Plus ... One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness ... in all of us. It’s the event where the Brass Rat for each class is

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  alumni club living in the Charles River in an effort to convert MIT students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in ... with their teeth to construct dams in the river. They have been known to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  they didn't let me in at the border? How would I carry my suitcases all ... foot to enter the US? Was I really moving to an apartment in Boston, to ... who wasn't related to me for the first time in five months. I still can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your classroom to inspire your students, Gisel is probably the person who put it in ... give to each other as a thanks helping them out in a pinch

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

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He ... reservation was still open in Firefox. “Alright! Get on.” Seven hours, four

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  something new to my list, albeit I don't get it until May: the MIT Brass Rat ... after a while, you even start to identify with it. When I told my dad how ... Jobs. In the beaver's right hand is a candle with a screw jutting out

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  posts, which only made me more nervous and sure that I would never get in ... onto his website to watch his mailbox for the arrival of a big, beautiful ... offer even if I did get in (clearly this was just an ill-planned coping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  world". The grandma-friendly way to explain this is in terms of the ... months after graduating, to keep getting it wrong when I went to put my ... the physical examples, easy to describe in a short vignette. The true

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  only apples to eat, nothing else. How to use: Go to their website and ... women. How to use: Personally I would not opt to stay in a strange man ... looking back fondly on those days, so I want to share how I did it. Maybe

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  ’s-eye pictures of it, which I was unable to get as I am not, in fact, a bird (as ... lecture, and with my exceptional ability to get lost in any and all circumstances, I figured wandering around in order to get a better shot was

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  's FINALLY reopening, so come get to know us and the dorm! Rope Swing in the ... to meet you!!! I know how excited I was for my CPW, so I can only ... event on Sunday that people shockingly showed up to, despite me putting in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  're definitely getting in!" just increased the pressure. With how and where I grew ... time to figure out their admission status. Essentially, nausea is in the ... dorms I could live in. Some people around me--my mom who went to her state

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  how to get your own radio show? Here's your chance! You'll also be able ... narrow my decision down to two schools, and there is no better way to get a ... want to do when you get here. With so many events to choose from, it

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  helpful to you. We had a great crowd in Miami. The Miami meeting was one ... have never wept in front of a crowd before, but yesterday I did get pretty emotional. To those of you who joined me in the moment of silence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005