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  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  in the future. ~Kirsten Also on the bezel is the green building, how ... references! On the Bezel's sidewalk is a footprint, commemorating the life of ... pendulum for brave prefrosh to take a ride in. You can see the double

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  Admissions blogger is its Editor-in-Chief? [answer at the end of the entry ... . Boiko: Last year, a senior in one of our courses came up at the end of ... find out that you there was even a full major at MIT in both writing and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the ... "punt" is to put work aside in favor of doing something fun - or more ... away at problem sets or studying. For a much better (and more musical

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider! I promise I'm not a blog-hog, this is just too good!

  

  Let's cut right to the chase: THERE'S A HACK IN 6C! Natanya's already told you about 6C, but I'll bet it didn't feature a giant spider on a web! I've decided to name him Lucifer. He's huge! He has the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  I've blogged before about how, a few years ago, Jeremy Rubin '16 managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to ... the class I was teaching. Which, by the way, is not a bad final project

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

   Normal People, and this short story is a predecessor to the novel, featuring Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to ... mimesis as the action that the poem has, in reality, on the reader…I think a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  , sorority life is a thriving community here at MIT, with about ⅓ of ... 're interested, I've also talked a bit in the past about what the sorority recruitment and experience is like, which you can read here. Because a lot of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  me any significant pain. 8.02 (Physics) is essentially a review of high ... slightly embellished story that is nonetheless true in its essentials. Before ... times two is four!” I chanted with a rhythm fit to rival a metronome. “Two

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  . 5 in G) then listened to the piece. A suite is a collection of dances ... wristwatch time from A to B is minimized." 3:01pm "Metrics in general ... old. (Sidenote: a fun consequence of having a Halloween birthday is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  is my birthday, and my age is now a perfect number. Perfect numbers ... 'll play this as a guessing game: how many freshman applications do you think ... A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  to admit this in a public forum but the only other show I make time to ... OC... yeah, I know. Okay this post is over. < slinks away in shame ... implement a lot of my requests into MyMIT - YES! 5) Well not this week but

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  of this story, however, is that it took us twenty minutes to find a ... Thursday night, in lieu of prepping for the Career Fair, a group of friends ... inexplicable desire to drink soda. As in, I had to drink soda immediately or I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  summer in a row.  His major is Course 16, or Aerospace and Astrological ... absolutely incredible! JPL is a research and development center as well as a NASA field center in Pasadena, California.  Pasadena is about an hour bus

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  while before we heard a siren. Then, this is what we saw (keep in mind, I ... A huge perk to living at MIT is living right across the river from ... happens is a new store opening up or a car crashing into a building every

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  , is that we learned that Elizabeth’s “mistake” was actually not a ... told they were identical. Here is a diagram to sum up the relationship ... zygosity of same-sex twins based on the number of placentas, is in the right

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  ’ve written a blog for MIT, and I really don’t have much to contribute.  But I ... ’m dealing with in Metaphor. Right? No. I was wrong. This is my fourth attempt ... , here I am. Blogging for the first time in three years. A lot has changed

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  let you guys know about a program that I participated in back in high ... and the United States. The format is pretty cool - you watch a video ... week's topic in a virtual conference (you're literally talking to about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  jingling in a calm breeze and wish they’d sound more like plates breaking or a metal pipe hitting the ground? Rockin’ in the Wind is a set of ... this by using a microcontroller to amplify the sound, much like an

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot ... would like to live in them (1 = I WANT TO LIVE THERE! 17 = I'm a guy, you ... choose to either stay in the dorm you are temped in or readjust to a new

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  're triploid."]Mutsu[/annotation] thrown in there. I like a tart apple. They had ... MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019