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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  , at the beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and once, halfway through, for the unveiling of the class ring. The ... bids for the very lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  exciting time to be around MIT, because it is Nobel Prize week. For me, this ... for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is ... Caltech, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the inorganic chemistry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  take my healthy lifestyle to the next level and train for the Boston ... for me. A marathon has 26 miles. Half a year has 26 weeks. Coincidence ... of use, and they're not intended for long distance running. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  of his presidency. Well, for future reference, I think it's best to try ... So I know the entire world has been waiting anxiously for the release ... thesis research for him on my own for the next three months, so nobody

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  for graduate student Y. Graduate student Y wrote this about X ... (say, Senator Foo or Congressman Bar). It's rare for these letters to say ... asking the aide in that politician's office that they worked for to write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  helped write an email to my dorm on March 25th, pleading for folks to take ... Undergraduate Association rallied hard for faculty to change their semester plans, and to allow for students to take an actual break during the four

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  organization for lost orphaned baby whales in the middle of Africa, speak Spanish ... ideas. In fact for Christmas, some of the faculty used their own money to ... entertain what I would consider an “annoying” curiosity, and for that I am

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  school friend Shana for that bit of information. Finding myself suddenly and unexpectedly with no other plans for Friday night, I decided to use ... changed, and with trips for every other weekend this summer already planned

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  understanding of how my Ethiopian and American roots played a part. For example, I ... A year back I developed a deep interest in understanding what made me who I am. This all started when moving to Cambridge for a year caused a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  . We're now ready to play a short psychological game. A private ... instinct was Method 2, you'd also show a natural talent for parallel parking ... pairs. Or triplets. Or where n-tuplets, where n = n+1 for every time that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  a website called partiful: think facebook events for parties. the ... was for "smart, hard-working, ambitious people in tech." now, my ... , it was held at an office. for a startup, of course, cofounded by one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  even bother. The thing is, I don't need physics, not really, for the ... the right thing by sticking with physics for so long, and these days, I ... , despite it being less relevant to the career paths I see for myself. Course

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  "Memento rerum Conditor" for Soprano/Alto or Tenor/Bass, by Fauré, a famous ... . [annotation note='given my noted penchant for bursting out into song at anything ... singing this song was still quite fun! 21W.765: Interactive Narrative There

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  ". On the second day we drove to the village Vík, where our hotel for the ... for several hours--there was a power outage, it was cold out, no one ... all the way back to our room, and went to sleep, preparing for another

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  your grandmother about apple pie recipes, and that would be fun for ... mentioned that I was working on a project for ICE-T that involved the ... 's foremost expert on formic acid fuel cells, to ask for the highest power

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  blogger, I was [annotation note="REX stands for Residence EXploration, where ... "]REX[/annotation] chair for Next House. This was a stressful time—along with a co-chair and ... decided, would have to be easier. I had a twelve-week internship secured for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  what actually is ROTC? ROTC stands for Reserve Officers' Training Corps ... .   Here at MIT we host ROTC programs for three branches of the military ... a four-year active duty commitment (for most careers - some careers

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  luminescent solar concentrators which collects sunlight for solar cells. These ... fewer solar cells for the same energy output. They can be mounted on ... Offshore Renewable Energy Systems (ORES) for which excess power from a wind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  , revealed that “Maxwell's Equations in a Vaccuum” is an esoteric euphemism for “Fruitcake that will sustain you for two days in case of a nuclear attack ... -cramming. Par example: one of MIT's best A capella groups decided to have a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  superior culture for learning. These three branches are the colleges, which ... arrange for me to have approximately 4 supervisions per class per term. The ... subject exceedingly well. In preparation for these supervisions, you are to

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008