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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  ring is known as the Brass Rat. Why? Because it is made of gold and ... the Tech [student], but his habits are peculiarly our own. The beaver is noted for his engineering, mechanical skills, and industry. His habits are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  , and various debauchery ensued. Some pictures are omitted to protect the ... from meat lasagna (which I made) to trail mix and donuts (which our ... . Sorority events are dry, so it's a nice break from the ridiculous antics you

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  the sunny California Bay Area, where temperatures are above fifty degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three ... , and 18.03 Differential Equations). Since freshmen are on pass/no record

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  IAP. Some of my friends are doing GTL, where you go to another country ... of hard to describe IAP because people are just doing wildly different ... and spend more time at home, or travelling. Some of my friends are doing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  are a whole two months of MIT to blog about, where to start? So you ... emotions are usually at one of these two extremes. When we say that “MIT is ... . Suddenly you're on your own. A million activities are thrown your way, a

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can I find info on Graduate Admissions/Masters/PhD?

  The Office of Undergraduate Admissions handles first-year and transfer admissions. To pursue graduate study at MIT, you need to apply to one of our departmental programs(opens in new window). Each…
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  email us to ask where they are—it will only slow our processing down. We ... by the COVID-19 pandemic. We know that there are ongoing and rolling ... many people are taking on additional responsibilities at home to protect

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  , "Do you have a core curriculum?" The answer is, yes, there are some ... pieces. These mandatory classes are known as the General Institute ... college transfer credit. The first six courses listed above are most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update A short entry, a quick link, and I become Seth Cohen.

  

  In honor of my trip to the OC, Ben made this for me: And the link of the day: The Art of Problem Solving (more on this next entry) A longer update soon...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who was the first woman graduate?

  In 1873, shortly after MIT's opening in 1865, Ellen Swallow Richards became MIT's first woman graduate (and later its first woman instructor). Richards' work testing drinking water supplies and water contaminants made
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This is it. the last "what classes I'm taking" blog

  

  semester!  Feel free to ask about classes or anything else at MIT. :)

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 20, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix "We did this because we were bored." -- Russell Cohen '13

  

  Battle is free software and can be downloaded from GitHub.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10s in the news A series of newspaper articles about incoming MIT freshmen.

  

  Over the next week (or so), I'll be publishing newspaper articles I've collected from across the web (via newsfeeds) about members of the Class of 2010 (if there was a newspaper article about you, feel free to send a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  was pretty fun, and there was a lot of free pizza and stuff to drink

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  then I got sick, and here we are. I had an impulse to post something I ... Poetry Workshop class this semester, where each week you come in with a ... need to start with some direction of where you're going, whether it be a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  ; Commencement. Two months ago. Wow, where does the time go? Summer's almost over ... '17s. Hope you guys are out there all over the world rocking it. What ... Microsoft no doubt. Hope your startups are going well. Statistically, 90% of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  This weekend marks the notable milestone where, for the first time in ... to develop and test these sorts of things in an environment where if ... circuit boards are really cool and I'm learning tons about them from my UROP

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  - who take advantage of what's around them - MIT's resources are ... Boston to New York, New York to Dubai (where I met up with my mom), and ... struggled with language barriers at the hospital, where most individuals only

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  Killian Court. Things got out of control when those memes made out of ... the COVID-19 years']CP*[/annotation]2021 Discord server were made, and ... them! (I swear my majors are Legit™. At least MIT News and MIT Tech

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  I can't wait to tell you why 9.24 and 9.26 are awesome, so here goes ... neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders (which are really the same thing because neuropsychiatric disorders are just as valid). And some of us even

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018