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  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  'm proud to be blogging the debut of this year's Brass Rat to the rest of the ... that really disappointed me about the ring - its complete lack of ... , when the point of having all these quirky symbols is to defy tradition

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  days of the week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, I went on ... Braille Press in Boston. We started with a tour of the building. In the ... more stacks of paper when they were printing Harry Potter and the Half

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes ... - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged ... it's been collecting dust. On Monday, at the beginning of my Chaucer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, is one of the most ... ’s Introduction to Algorithms class, and dives into the heart of designing and ... , especially in the context of limited resources. Limited memory, limited

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering ... ceiling of Symphony Hall. We sat at the same table as lovebirds Thomas '05 ... has composed scores for scores of major motion pictures, including the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the contemporary campus. This is not that story. Instead, this is the story of how MIT almost became a pirate fortress in the middle of the Charles. Via

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  political substance of the teacher's comments. Rather, I'm curious to know ... topic that I think is worthy of discussion. Normally I don't enter this sort of territory with my blog, but I think it's directly relevant to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  . Commentary: We watched this video the first day of lecture. Possibly one of the ... the physics and stochastic nature of manufacturing processes and systems ... friends of mine and I decided to see how long we were willing to wear the

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  Boston Public Library - Venue of the Class of 2020 Ring Delivery ... in front of the elevators. It's not shown in this picture, but this ... ? The initials of the five of us (me, Allan, Nia, Karen, and Katherine

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• 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 / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  Sort of. Do you remember the nursery rhyme about the London Bridge ... chainsaw magnate Robert McCulloch submitted the winning bid of $2 ... artist of the statue had never seen a lion before, so he used his pet dog

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Won’t Be Long Now… Some pictures to tide you over.

  

  the rest of the admissions team. Not my favorite part of the job (I'm not the biggest fan of paper cuts) but it's rewarding in that it provides a bit of closure to an important part of the admissions cycle. It

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline. So ... are taken out of the envelope, given an official MIT Office of ... sort of document it is (this is why documents that were sent in the same

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  . Rockapella is probably one of the most famous examples of a cappella.) Kim ... in our undergrad days). These are, of course, just a sampling of the ... Jamboree, All A Cappella Extravaganza, and the 7th Annual Battle of the Bands

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Match Our thoughts, and a request for current MIT students to weigh in.

  

  the better part of the fall. I apologize for this, and thanks to all of ... think make good matches to the undergraduate culture of MIT - academic ... Those of you who are savvy surfers of this site will note that our

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 5, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  academic year is completed, and as such, it's also the time of year that MIT ... contributions to MIT life, culture, and academics. In the realm of arts@mit, this means recognizing the winners of the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  Yesterday marked the beginning of classes, but today marked my first ... anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was ... continuation of the one I took last semester, MAS.110. It's through the Media Lab

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  It's that time of the year where everything winds down and you might ... towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the ... likes our Facebook profile pictures were getting. At the end of it all, we

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  This evening, as I sit reviewing some of the first early action applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the ... . This reminds me that we haven't officially announced that all of the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  Tell the truth, how many current MIT students read the title of this ... Baker (one of our dorms), was uploaded to the internet. The instant ... admissions website. The link has been sent to a couple of dorm lists and is

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009