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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  (Class of 2007's Ring) The Brass Rat is MIT's class ring, which is ... semester. It's one of the most recognizable rings in the world, based on ... each class's Rat are chosen by a Ring Committee, or "RingComm," a group

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  a year and a half ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i said no. half a year ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i said ... and i am running out of time. when i was in barcelona, i talked about

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  lyrics to "What is a Youth?" in Romeo and Juliet were nearly identical to ... linear time anyway. Apparently, neither do the Aztecs. Wow, this is a ... laid on a piece of turquoise. This is where the priest would start the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  180. The interviews, the formalities, the waiting in line to talk to a ... so easy to feel hopeless and give up. But today was a lesson in ... how truly massive this movement is, and just how clever people can get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... and Wyoming to be in attendance. I was lucky to have a great group of ... , USACO is the best program for high school students interested in pursuing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  the tough semester is that between having my time tied up in school and ... for later. The way it typically works is I'll have a random thought or ... might be wondering what exactly it is that I'm holed up in my room working

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How many Nobel Prize Laureates are affiliated with MIT?

  MIT is affiliated with 104 Nobel Prize Laureates. You could be taking a class with one of the 12 current Nobel Laureate faculty members at MIT very soon!
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  professor he worked with (Daniel Kleitman, a professor in the Math Department ... understand!) A graph is just a set of vertices connected by edges. You can ... rainbow cycles, where a rainbow cycle is a set of edges that form a cycle or

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  first single off their new upcoming album (to be released in October). A ... when I was in the group. Yes, I'm a proud Log papa. :) It definitely ... audio is all a cappella sung by the Logs, and was recorded and edited by

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  universities? How might you know whether or not MIT is a good match for you? We ... an interview and give you some advice. This is also a good chance for ... about in a future entry, my first meeting isn't until the very end of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  up" is often completed with a "I want to be" or a "I will try to." We ... is the uncertainty? Polymers, believe it or not, involve a lot of ... school and polymers and cats.   There's a great future in plastics

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  sounds like a house elf from Harry Potter and 2) my parents, who were in ... friends about how my school wasn't going to stick me with a random roommate ... taught in a field I was interested in. Seminars, he said, were ideal, since

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  how it is cornered against a baseball field, where the local children ... located. Newton. Then, I search if there is a Trader Joe's in Newton. There ... /25/2022: There is a Trader Joe's in West Newton.    

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  to work on it. So Kim, who is a good painter, asked me if I wanted help ... 't know how we pulled it off. This is what Crystle's and my room looked ... . Although my belief is that one should pick a living group based on whether

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  . Also, I live in a castle (see the stone behind the rose) Case in point ... they're in financial trouble. Despite this... I landed a definite job with a company I am CRAZY about! Stroud Consulting is a relatively new

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  , which makes me feel bad about how long ago, but the pandemic crowded a lot ... Almost 11 years ago, I wrote a blog post called Applying Sideways that was my [annotation note="Audacious, in retrospect, given that I had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... a thinkpiece about race. This is just me working through my own ... Anti-Asian sentiment in America is not new, but this last year has given

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  laziness factor is keeping me in low-cal chips and salsa. I just ate a slice ... right now is to eat something. A huge something. (Actually, that's not ... to stay in shape so that when he careens down a mountain on glare ice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  start of another day. Winter in Wyoming is its own beast, a stark contrast ... of Cows![/caption] Winter in Wyoming—a symphony of snowflakes and ice ... company so we braved the elements together often with sleds in tow for a

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  a sweatshirt. All I’m missing is some pants, maybe some shoes. But ... , a sweatshirt, a hat—heck, even my non-existent MIT shoes—inspires in ... passed without incident. Sitting in a chair in the student center lobby, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008