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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  Following up on JKim's entry about excitement for the unveiling of the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at MIT ... the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman

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

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  Another CPW has come and gone, and with it the throes of prefrosh ... for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of ... down in your work day in and day out. Of course, CPW brings out the best

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is CSAIL?

  When people think of MIT, they think of computers, robots, and internet—CSAIL is all of those things. The Computer Science and Artificial ... of the world’s most important centers of information technology
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  Many of you have already received it, but for those of you anxiously ... The i3 project features all 11 of MIT's dorms. The preliminary housing ... funding for the very first i3 project, and several of my very close friends

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue

  

  Ah, glorious government holidays! Happy Fourth of July! Enjoy the day off, free street parking, copious amounts of barbequed meat, and beautiful displays of explosives. That is... as long as your weather report

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Mario Institute of Technology hack Laura's entry on an awesome hack.

  

  Laura ’09 captured today’s awesome hack… check it out!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Anatomy of a Late Night There are some problems caffeine can't solve. But only a few.

  

  2 liters of Mountain Dew: $2.75 Mint Milanos: $3.39 Artichoke Spinach Hummus: $2.99 Wheat Thins: $2.29 Getting all your work done... priceless And now, I sleep, perchance to dream...

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Peggy and the Office of Admissions! Here are the results of this year's new year mini-contest! (Remember, this will have no impact on admissions) "The source of inspiration was the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be! In the meantime, all of you '09s should check out the Firstyear site ... ... yes, we're now thinking about the MIT Class of 2010 (and beyond!). I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  eclipse of the moon, in fact. The last one until 2010. You should go watch ... take a good photo of something that's over 360,000 kilometers away on a ... of the eclipse totally unworthy of viewing, and hide them from all of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  I was out meeting a friend and some of her friends that I didn't previously know last night, and the topic of school came up. (SIDE NOTE: that ... think the problem stems from not having a good word for "friend of a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  So one of the unfortunate parts of graduating is that you actually have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I ... a member of the rowing team, I have had the same locker at the Pierce

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  Intensive) class, 14.33. Sam has also commented on one of his as well. My ... aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and Huxley model for the propagation of action potentials. The model is fairly

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taste of the Middle Ages

  

  My 21H.927: Economic History of Work and Family teacher, Professor Anne McCants, ran an IAP event entitled "Old Food: Ancient and Medieval ... the Met(ropolitan Museum of Art)'s Medieval Art collection --------

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... 's always a TON of things going on. Since it's my senior year and I have this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  C. '16 explained in his post about Ring Premiere what the design of our ring looks like, but as of last night we now have our own beautiful ... RING! It feels so good! I have many pictures from and of the event

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  I'm the type of person who never wins the lottery. Were this a ... -enviable genetic makeup is devoid of lottery-winner DNA, and (3) I've heard that it ... turns out that, much like a gourmet pretzel, life is full of twists. On

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  aspects of an affair that novels were concerned with, like whether or not ... most visible manifestation of more important, more illegible conflicts ... -winded way of explaining that I just finished reading The Lying Lives of Adults

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  'd do a bit of a tour. I invite you to walk with me from the front door ... outside. I'll be honest - I'm not the biggest fan of the architectural ... well as the design of the little overhangs on the [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  to fifteen hours to finish. When we emerge from our cyclic periods of ... , it's not...that great. But I digress. I actually wrote the bulk of ... . A ray caster, if you care, is one of the most basic conceptual layers

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011