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  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  It’s been four days since the beginning of sophomore year. That means ... coming into fruition has been an enlightening journey. The Journey of 8,726,400 SOS When I look back at the blogger I was at the beginning of freshman

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  So the other day, I was totally out of food. Like, completely. I ... kind of creepy. The bar corresponding to what's currently going on with ... books checked out of the libraries- plus another 2 from the Boston Public

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  got the chance to buy one of these things. As it turns out, the Grad Rat, the version of the MIT ring that's available for graduate students, is a fairly recent tradition; the first redesign of it came about in 2008. But

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  The class of 2011 all got this e-mail this morning: Class of 2011 ... this well-deserved summer break thoroughly. Towards the end of the school year, the class council announced its decision of a ring committee

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  . The School of Engineering will be renamed the School of Imagineering and the campus will move to Orlando, according to hackers who altered the ... cluster. From the MIT Hack Gallery: On April Fools Day of 1998, hackers

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  schools may be the smartest applicants of all" http ... importance of attending the "famous schools." This one features our Dean of Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  advance screening of Blades of Glory by the Lecture Series Committee (LSC ... ), technologists (Steve Wozniak, Jimmy Wales) -- the kinds of cool people you ... others. The talk by Jim Ross fits into the category of speakers I never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  , Ohio, which as you may or may not know is the violet capital of Ohio ... scared of flying, and Adam always tells me stories about the tolerances of ... favorite place in all of Columbus, the Columbus Zoo. I hadn't been there in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  picture of MIT at night, looking out over West Campus. You can see the West ... large chunk of Cambridge, and part of the Charles River, with the Museum of Science off in the distance. When I first got this blog, and was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  good at answering over the past couple of months. So I've decided to ... tinnnnnyyy little country in Europe. It's about double the size of Boston by area and about a tenth of the size by population. So by U.S. standards

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  ." Second, the Boston Globe had this photo and caption today: A ton of snow was delivered to the front lawn of MIT Fraternity house Chi Phi on the corner of Commonwealth Ave. and Hereford Street in the Back Bay to welcome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday ... , Koch Institute, Division of Student Life, MIT Dining. Meanwhile, the MIT Museum took advantage of the day to announce their new home at...314 Main

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  (where the sidewalk ends), I'm from Bethesda, MD (a suburb of Washington ... just got back from my second visit to the beautiful town of Punta Cana in ... spent a lot of time reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson by the pool

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Finalists the "name bryan's fish" contest continues!

  

  And the finalists of the "Name Bryan's Fish" contest are: Mr. Chang Voltaire Groker Fabio Matsya Gelatin White Dragon Sushi Vote for your favorite by posting a comment or emailing me at [email protected].

  • by Bryan
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  about this, the tech center of the world was likely to have tons of ... found a suitable copy of the opening ceremonies. I downloaded it, watched ... distribution of copyrighted material violates MIT Policy and the MITnet Rules of

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my ... match of the season, instead of the spry, bright-eyed youth that I should ... summer free of academic worries had stripped me of the urgency that just

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2010! By now many of the Early Action admitted students have received "Da' Tube".

  

  By now many of the Early Action admitted students have received "Da' Tube". Let me hear from you! Are you excited? Are we your number one choice? Do you have reservations? Are you still in shock? Drop the Nance

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  as Patriots' Day, which falls on the third Monday of April ... with the hubbub of CP✱, this year's iteration of CPW, and my general enjoyment of walking long distances, it seemed like the right weekend to try

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  By now many of you have seen our new promo video on the website. And ... video to be featured right on the homepage. Its part of our overall ... videos like the one we featured of MIT’s amazing acapella group the

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Early Action: Admitted A forum.

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2015! Good job! Go ahead and introduce yourselves :)

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010