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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring ... bezel of ring. The Committee looked to the original discussion over the mascot, calling upon the now-famous defense of the beaver by Lester Gardner

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  fact, I would guess that the type of housing MIT offers(students choose ... food and where?" The boxes you saw came from one of the campus food trucks. I get the plurality of my campus lunches from the Chinese food

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who is the President of MIT?

  Sally A. Kornbluth is the 18th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kornbluth follows L. Rafael Reif, who led MIT for a decade and stepped down as president at the end of 2022.
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  with beds below $70. Tomorrow I'll hike as much of the Way as I can, then ... to Killarney. I hiked about 4 miles of the Kerry Way before it began to ... to 23% when I charged it in the bathroom of an old abbey, and had

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the ... talking about the most fundamental aspect of college: classes. So I thought I’d fix that now, with a review of all the classes I took freshman

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  ), ate dessert at Coldstone, and saw Over the Hedge. We also saw a bunch of ... , yeah? Today I have given a tour of MacGregor to Zi Wen (a member of the ... responsible.) Adam and I watched the latest epidode of Lost, ordered dinner

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  undergraduate degree and attended the University of Chicago to attain a PhD in ... would be leaving the institute at the end of the year. Professor Peter ... supported the education of physics at MIT in a myriad of ways. From developing

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  the majority of the people in her area didn’t have college degrees and ... year’s program and further details here. I will now spend the rest of ... them because many of the people sharing these sentiments were college

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days ... -day weekend and every single day of the weekend was the most beautiful day ever ... , awesomeness in general. So I thought I'd write about some of the more awesome

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  sit in the lounge and talk to people, ask one of your classmates if they ... repeated interaction. But the types of interaction you have are important. I study together with a lot of people a lot of the time, but the people I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  With several of the core General Institute Requirements out of the way, sophomore year was really the dawn of my computer science life at ... ’t help but feel the creeping approach of “not-enough"ness. As career fair

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  of tea through the whole day. it was a ridiculous amount of tea. go ... projects i had due end-of-semester. but of the four (yes, four, it ... at least had to put some amount of effort into the project. when i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  difference. Anyway, I offer you a tale of suspense and... you know, other ... view of the night sky for three and a half hours because THE SUN GOES ... everyday bit of fun in an airport should have been the line for bag check

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  top of yesterday's already heavy mail . The records office staff are ... better than the professor, though offered to write me a rec. My question is, would her reccomendation be taken seriously?" Absolutely! The content of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... deckbuilder, you'd draw cards from your deck at the beginning of your turn, have ... , and then all of the cards go to a discard pile. You add When the discard

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  : 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... composers is, in my mind, an abstract idea and not a human being. The idea of ... opera, or was that just me?) We spent the first ten minutes of class or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  anything to offer in comparison to the rest of the class of 2011. I was ... their MIT experiences. I'm sure some of you will be able to relate to the ... the road, and (b) because I've been longing to post this picture of him

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  , elegant, and anonymous prank, designed to amuse and catch the attention of ... 'd expect, hacking is one of MIT's most celebrated traditions, and the actual ... particular hack was done to honor the 50th anniversary of NASA, which was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  attire. My radiator churns and hisses through the night. Hundreds of ... "]released.[/annotation] The fall quarter [annotation note="The first half of MIT's Intro to ... from seeing a 100% on a tricky part of a MicroQuiz is unparalleled. The

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  Graduate School of Education released a report entitled “Turning the Tide ... 100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think ... the joy of learning. We don’t want a laundry list of a million

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016