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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  Brass Rat Each class year at MIT officially gathers three times -- once, 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

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  felt like this was sort of my last real semester at MIT. this is ... always be someone there at all hours of the night and that when i was in my ... thinking about how a lot of people at MIT do so many different things and how

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Competition Tomorrow Better than Battlebots! 2.007 competition tomorrow!

  

  Alright everyone, tomorrow and Wednesday are the days I am SURE you have been waiting for. In the Johnson Athletic Center at 6:30 pm, we will be having the first round of the 2.007 competition. Wednesday at 7

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  remember that in the few moments of time I tried my hand at creating music ... -I-will-this-is-what-I-came-here-for spirit that overtook me at the start of the semester. For me, this isn’t a ... and at the frat. There’s been the prospect of my first technical job

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  sessions of more than one student dance troupe late at night.  I’ve heard the ... Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January ... coffee cup in hand, along with a horde of students and tourists, and I

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to try to figure out what's at the edge of the universe. Is there a ... The next few months of my life are pretty well planned out. I'm going ... there. But mostly I'll be taking classes. Thesis Do a lot of work and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and ... outside of the Museum of Science on a Boston Duck Tour before the tour guide ... . When we got there, the first thing I noticed was that there were a lot of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  ’m kind of painfully bad at chess right now. I’m also incredibly sucky at ... recognizing and accepting that I can be really bad at things was one of the most ... requires a lot of concentration (at least on my part). Everyone knows the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to mechanical wonders in various states of disarray, blabbing incessantly about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the top 20 Scrabble players in the country, and the #1 ranked scrabble player in all of Massachusetts, is a sophomore at ... the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic ... immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... cleaning, but at least the laundry's done. I had a good experience with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  classes at all, who were homeschooled, and who did A Levels (but none who ... number #1 overall winner of international Olympiad competitions, and many hundreds more who have never heard of international Olympiad competitions (I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  bed watching Netflix, but...at the end of the day, i was really grateful ... meet a lot of people in classes/at random events that you can lose touch ... i'm taking this course called "The Science of Well-Being" on Coursera

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  it is possible to get an adequate amount of sleep at MIT, as long as ... their best work. You're welcome to do that too. Lots of people at MIT are ... of the day except approximately 6-8 AM. The upside at MIT is that, due

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  between a chemistry test and a biology test. So at 4:00 PM on the eve of ... backpack it went. Hardly was this inconsistent with the Way of Things at MIT ... along the lines of “Free ___ and ___ at (some place within a 5-minute run

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  taken made it look like some sort of captcha. I offered to help with the ... ? KN6OQK” “i wann chimken” “what do they have? KC1RQI” “rice? soop of ... quarantine. It started with a regular Wikipedia rabbit hole, but out of extreme

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new ... , cleaning out closets of last year’s coats and donating them, filing paperwork, going through old emails and cleaning up all of my computer desktops. And

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  action needed to be taken by you. You are at no disadvantage of your ... document. At this time, however, you should not send additional copies of ... finished processing all of the application materials submitted for early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  . Now... at East Campus, every Friday, one of the ten halls hosts a FAC ... 's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the entire Boston area, I sort of feel guilty having fun if I've got a whole

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  fast. Crew at MIT is one of the largest sports, and our only Division 1 ... for "Crew of the Week" and you can all help our crew team be recognized ... little support! For those of you unfamiliar, Crew is sort of a big deal

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009