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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  Jobs. In the beaver's right hand is a candle with a screw jutting out ... name, got his Master's in City Planning, and in a way, he planted the ... . A pack of Brass Rats, in their natural habitat What's that? You can

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  its [annotation note="this is a work in progress"]edgy vibe ... What is Infinite Magazine? Infinite is a student-run magazine seeking ... with either that spread or my experience in the club — I felt a little

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  , admitting 16, with 14 enrolling in the fall. This season's admits are a ... admission is tough; with a 6% admit rate, it's especially true for transfer ... . Transfer admission is a small program at MIT. Transfer students, though, are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  No. Really. Finals week starts tomorrow, and my 8.01 final is in ten hours, but I've been studying quite a bit this weekend. Stalling=blog post ... - it is for a class) had been moved to the East Campus courtyard

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  things going on. Here are a few that caught my eye in the CPW schedule ... more, taught in a fun/crazy style by MIT students. Awesome music at ZBT ... the Sox won 14-3. Fenway is a pretty short walk from MIT, about 15

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  yeah, here is how to (im)properly get an independent study, a sequel to the list we made in this post. Come up with an idea for a project ... seem to be responding to your email Notice that he is not in his office

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  in response to this degradation – degradation of a noble activity ... folly of my cynicism. In fact, she is the person who inspired me to start ... -Sevana, a home for sexually abused teenage mothers in Sri Lanka. No amount of

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  significant weight in the process. If you have something that is a significant ... conducted - is it done in a day, or over a period of time?" We are still ... , and certainly being born in 1988 is not a problem for the Class of 2009

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  phone call at around 1 AM (which is only 10 PM in Northern California ... awesome, and had been reserving a spot on the Esplanade right in front of ... interested in coming. Truly, his breast is full of the milk of human kindness

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  is no doubt that WISE holds a special place in Daymé's and Asia ... to fit in because she was cool. She applied anyway because MIT was a ... remember going to House 2, a living group in [annotation note=" one of the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  . The delta in my personhood is literally entirely due to MIT. So, as a ... that is a big component of what i look for in good friends. freshman year ... 's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  my state, is a must-visit attraction if you’re near North Carolina in ... countryside to escape the Boston bubble for a few days. I’m in a club called ... was trapped very tightly in a parking spot, and I can’t parallel park or

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  . This is Professor Junot Diaz. This is a book that wrote, one of my all ... genuine. I'm so happy that he is on the faculty of a place like MIT. Hearing ... never be thankful enough for a good teacher, and in some ways you won

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  specific songs define the distances in my life? A walk from East Campus to ... . How do you measure a year in the life? ... measure a year, I began to wonder what units I use to measure my life. The

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... 's entry) to the Club Med in Punta Cana and everything was wonderful except for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  I love MIT, because starting a sentence with "Speaking of mu..." doesn't get you looked at funny. A quick rundown of tonight's activities: I love living in a city, if for nothing else but the food. Last night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  point is--there's a Halloween theme. Basically you could eat the cost of ... me look like I was a little paunchy, but not like I was in the middle ... is as a Bond girl with Carter '07. Now that I think of it, I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Faculty Luncheon for Local* Admitted Students *local: from New England or New York, or anyone who just happens to be in…

  thing is about 2.5 hours in length, and not quite as life-changing as the ... Hello, everyone. This is probably the first time anyone has heard of me (maybe that's a good thing?), but I come to you today with important

  • by mitblogs
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  . Today, I'm wearing a tie, which is my custom for days on which the ... ) applications is complete. This morning, we begin regular action selection ... about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  're doing. 12:45pm – In which I decide to write a poem because I don’t feel like writing prose right now Sitting in a Chair (A poem about sitting in a chair in Hayden Library. Although arguably, it’s just a bunch of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014