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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  life at MIT. You can avoid it, embrace it, or cohabitate with it. Coming ... see each sorority with open and objective eyes. I can confidently say ... Recruitment and see if you can find your own home away from home! Evan (IFC

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  like your job (as I do), it can feel like an inconvenient stretch of time ... my regular travel, and the time I'll collectively spend on it, can ... . That, I think, is a detail that can get lost if you see such travel time

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  employers, and my family. All of them believed in me, and told me I can do ... people? All while wearing your Brass Rat? If you can't even imagine an ... can at least have the ring to show for it. I'll let you guys play out

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  intentionally by taking eight classes a semester so they can graduate in two years ... .006, which I need to complete my major, so the downer is that I can't drop it ... 's open-source, you can go play with it if you're curious. non-credit At

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  . A pack of Brass Rats, in their natural habitat What's that? You can ... meant to call the ring-wearer's thoughts back to the past - you can almost ... 'm sure any MIT student can relate to quite often. On the shank with MIT

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  Happy Holidays everyone! I can't believe another semester's done and ... , why CAN'T I be on the other side of the world during IAP? Why MUST I do ... much can change in just one week. It took just a minute or two for me to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  . We will admit the best applications we can during regular action ... additional tests in December or January, you can include MIT as a score recipient and we will consider any new scores. Can I call admissions to find

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  recursively so that you can detect things like shadows and reflections. The high ... code that you can keep and play with forever. (Blog post forthcoming ... guilt, Reese, with that special touch that only a cat's intuition can

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  behind highway overpasses, cars, random trees - in a phrase: see but can ... us at MIT. Sometimes when things feel impossible … or you can ... - go on with it. Maybe even go on just because you can. You knew that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  These first 3 weeks at MIT can best described as a whirlwind of new ... my first MIT pset. As you can imagine, it's been hard to devote my ... they can't stop laughing. Then there are those geniuses (who I liken to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  really, you can't afford to (with the default fear of not graduating on ... newer, perhaps more modern/Western mindset that one can and even should ... designing and turning concepts into real constructed spaces where people can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  standard upon myself. I can no longer rely on 'your mom' jokes to distract ... doomed by a lack of substance. I can't be boring. It's started to carry ... break us into the lobby in the middle of the night so we can film it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  supplies. Kirsten plans to major in 2 and 20 to make robots that can gently ... school, and she can change streetlights with her mind. Burton ... ;   She can move her ears independently of the other and she

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  you feel you can make a compelling case for your inclusion among them ... /Writing Experience We are looking for people who can communicate in a compelling ... , as well as any other creative skills that you can bring to bear to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  you can easily furnish your dorm room with exquisite, handcrafted ... ?You can also easily furnish your room with much more unique furniture, with ... have stringent policies about when they can give away things they

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  we can assume is a constant, akin to death and taxes. Naturally, almost ... close range. Even if you can take a guess on who they are, you haven ... dorms are a great look at how one can maintain the work/everything else

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  online, and you can tell that the 3-4 days you'll be on campus will be ... you who can't make it to CPW: don't be sad! Orientation is essentially ... in the near future. Plus, I can tell you that based on the 7 prefrosh I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  is that I can get up from my desk to stretch and travel down the infinite corridor in search of a diet Dr Pepper, and on my way I can look up ... , Program Administrator. You can reach her by checking out the contact us page

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  , come to think of it, I can swim across the Charles... My point is: peer ... you, can have an incredibly good influence. But this is all pretty ... they can see how awesome those things are. You will almost certainly

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  am sorry, my dear brother, that I can give no reliable good news in ... think that if secession can be postponed in these States a few weeks, the ... can get on very comfortably by themselves should separation be necessary

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011