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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  committee's first decision was whether to use the beaver or the Great Dome on ... design process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process of choosing the ring committee, or "RingComm," of 12 class members

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  I didn’t, or else be willing to put in time that I didn’t. And we’re a ... apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any ... mechanics in my psets, but then I felt a resistance to truly hunkering down

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  was nothing like the sleek videos OpenAI likes to tout in its demos ... videos were generated for free, so I didn't expect them to be that good in ... break from labeling videos to eat dinner in the dining hall, I caught

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  hours a day. You're probably used to being in class seven or eight hours a ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found ... should be careful not to overcommit themselves, but working two or three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  to spend all my time sitting in cafés, running around with people, or ... watched reflected light dance in the ocean. I was trying to catch the ... research—and now I want to dip my toe (or maybe my head or my entire self

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  , or might even be in the process of picking one out right now. If yours ... . =) (The girl sitting in front of me during the Premiere happened to be a ... skyline is shown at night, in tribute to the fact that MIT students are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  be majoring in course IV [architecture], or you have to be taking a ... , and it’s where you can put his invention to work in 6.163: Strobe ... next four years in favor of concentrating solely on my classes. To my

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  MIT is going through changes right now in addition to the new phase ... in the middle of a month? Or maybe you live off campus, and the place you're in wants you to pay a whole month's rent when you only need it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... besides, I hadn’t been to a good concert since the Rolling Stones were in ... find a new place to buy clothes. Here's the video Prof. Winston was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  we’re lame, or because there’s not much to do in the first place. It ... . It’s pretty hot in here, but I’m pretty used to it. There are a few ... , careers, deadlines… commitments that, in one way or another, limit one

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In or Out?

  

  Out. I’m pretty disappointed, but hey, it could be worse. So it goes.

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  very well or talk to him very often. time passes. frosh fall was when i ... fast enough to win $400 in. time passes. yannick, who was in cj's pod ... have picked shadows, which happens to be the weakest spirit currently in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  students came in to build their own speakers out of MDF as part of a class ... : an inexpensive circuit board milling machine. In addition to individual ... under a Creative Commons license in case someone out there wants to build

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  , listening to lectures, and training in the afternoon. (It's also the reason ... crawling and bruised, limbs hanging off in stray directions, back to my dorm ... in America right now but I'd love to go to MIT and it just seems like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  anything in the world, mental or physical, if I just put some time and ... --there's a nice one in Cape Cod. Take the Bolt Bus down to New York (not the ... all the way up to Boston. You'll still get in great shape, you'll still

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  [annotation note="to be clear this is the time stamp in the song, I will use ... the 10 minute walk (or dead sprint, tomato tomato) from Next House to ... of my shoulders. I didn’t buy dorm decor and didn’t spend much time in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  ` (MIT`s motto-- had to stick that in somewhere) to ask the right questions and to be creative and innovative in seeking our answers. Without the ... want to be in the thick of things. I needed the GIRs to build and grow. I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  spreadsheet. It is my equivalent of decorating a bullet journal or buying fancy ... in order to simplify all your required math. Solid Mechanics is a bit ... this class more than I expected, to be honest. There are just 4 people in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  prepare presentation in advance, or film with the professor’s back to the ... ! And if you can't make it to Splash or Spark, neither as a participant ... programming skills to succeed in the field. The CodeSeal team is currently in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  decided I wanted to double major in 20 and 5, chemistry. Or maybe even ... , but this means that flights just force me to think. A lot. In the time ... in the back of my mind: what about Course 6? To give some clarity on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019