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  A Wedding of All Time I walked Tim the beaver down the aisle

  

  fingers as well, so we had to make a small and a large ring for the ring ... a log cake. It got the most votes for the creative category and tasted ... and then moveout :p) It was a fine and beautiful day. The birds were

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2026
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  travelling.] For months, I've been looking forward to the day I'd be leaving ... something of a college preparatory nature occurs multiple times per week. For seven months, the notion of a new life and future along the Charles River

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  ). * The time it took for Billy Mitchell, father of three and president of a ... for launching such bands as Nirvana and The Shins. * Rain Man, Die Hard ... Weigel's two silver medals in the summer Olympics for speed walking

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A ... for a bit, through the HSSP program, but that’s still not clear at the ... leave you sad for a week. Or that a relay race to the Green Building with

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  to design the class' ring. For such a small piece of jewelry, it has so ... pendulum for brave prefrosh to take a ride in. You can see the double ... for a good half hour. For what purpose was this? ^We lined up with

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  was sweetly setting the table for a proper Spanish meal when they ... of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... my luggage in the past hour was enough embarrassment for all of 2025

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  For the last five years, I have started this post with a jaunty list ... advise creative projects in the office and serve as a touchstone for ... prefrosh and Selam I have built a pandemic platform for lockdown

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  's got a blog of her own, The Fullerene Incident, where she documents her ... -Centimeter Pillow and block-printed Feynman diagrams for the four primary Higgs production mechanisms. (I'm a physics nerd; not gonna apologize for that

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  aplenty. I also learned how to focus a camera, for just about the first ... resisted the temptation to indulge my desire for a giant slab of questionable ... . Faced with a barrage of Conceptual Quantitative Questions as I neared the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  excellent age for wine, or so I'm told by the sommelier app on my phone. It ... MIT. Howso? Well, 18 is the number of years in a row that the Nobel ... . Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides, for their work on "Search Frictions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  in the office and serve as a shibboleth for student culture. We pay you ... autonomy; the blogs are a specific example of this general case. The mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to communicate what being a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  on a spacecraft! The MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is selling the ads to fund their project to launch a student-designed small unmanned spacecraft in 2010. "Choose a location on the outside of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  post (and for maybe any post; the last few months have been either a ... lovers among you: any suggestions for more freshwater fish for a 29G?) The ... double (or triple -- slightly debatable) pun in the title and subtext. For

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  character of the MIT experience for that class but always features a three ... , 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... "] leaf no. 3[/caption]   The open forge is a great set-up for ... , searching the empty cavities of my skull for words.  I was busy and not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  ): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time ... cannot solve infinitely many such problems). A homework problem for the ... Rayo's video on the sizes of infinity for Wireless Philosophy. As a fun

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  justice instead of problem sets for a night. The week continued. I ... farewell gesture. I added a tier for grandeur and skipped over some of the ... A few weeks ago, I started seeing Staceyann Chin's face in the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  to Kresge Auditorium for the closing ceremony. After a few words from ... scenes on the spot without a moment of pause. I relaxed for the rest of ... thankful for all of the admissions staff for (a) letting me into MIT and (b

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  threat and are confused by the need for a chainsaw in a box. They will be ... you ever been walking down the hall and caught a whiff of rotting flesh? Maybe heard the sounds of a shuffling creature behind you, limping and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Battlecode?

  The 6.9610 Battlecode programming competition is a unique challenge ... intelligence. Student teams aim to write the best player program for the ... contest for both beginner and advanced coders. It's a programming project