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  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has a front ... , with nothing to block its view, and relatively smaller crowds, becomes a ... , the sun begins to set over MIT, while a blimp flies overhead; next

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  heads against the wall so hard their brains are going to fall out. In ... think you have an answer to a puzzle, you fill out a little form on the ... operator, I take other people's answers and call them in, so I also get to

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  Saturday at the Moakley Courthouse in Boston. The event was a smashing ... courthouse. Not very impressive, is it? Every guest had to pass through a ... , turkey, stuffing, pasta. The event space was in a gorgeous arc shape

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Late Night Dial-Up Users Beware!

  

  stars. We're going to turn this thing into a YouTube phenomenon, alright ... handle it? I've decided to post all of the YouTube videos that I've favorited since I've gotten here. "What does this have to do with MIT?" Look

  • by Snively '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  committee strives to design a ring that we, as students, can take pride in ... member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring ... ", published in 2006. After a quick history of the Brass Rat, Matt catalogs all

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean ... your finger to a problem set and then fall asleep, sitting down, half an ... tired of hearing distorted whatever, I decided to pack up and call it a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Unveiling the New Varsity Weight Room let's get buff !!!

  

  now open! Accessible to all those who participate in a varsity sport at ... vwr[/caption] It was super cool to get to lift in the new VWR. In the ... Athletics Department took the initiative to build a new weight room that will

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  the only thing we can do is to take things one semester at a time. And ... -is-becoming-pretty-standard hard And waking-up-in-time-for-your-9am-class-that-you-slept-through-consistently-for-the-past-month-is-a ... units to be considered a full time student) might be the solution. But we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  advantage of a new opportunity that allows MIT students to visit the Isabella ... , historic home in Boston. Only the signs really give it away as being a museum ... them as stipulated in her will. This rule is followed to the extent that

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  use all of them. They're just good to have in case of an emergency. That ... ! Honestly, I'm amazed, I have tweeted exactly 10 times in over a year and I ... details of my life. I'll tell you things I want you to know in my blog, but

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  would obviously be a bad idea. In other school news, for those of you who ... problem to someone else suddenly makes the solution clear). Rick is in 6 ... by itself, but it becomes a lot cooler when set next to the "I forgot

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline

  

  - feel free to post comments here if you encounter further issues ... problem and are working as quickly as we can to resolve it. If you can't log in, don't worry; we'll be flexible with the Regular Action deadline

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 31, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Collection of Curious Creatures at the MIT Zoo terrasaurs, quetzals, and portal cows, oh my!

  

  appear that some hackers decided to turn the Infinite into a zoo, featuring ... student groups. I'm happy to report that -- arguably unlike regular zoos -- you will notice that these animals are allowed to freely roam the campus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  54, was built on stilts in 1964 to circumvent Cambridge’s height limit ...     If a 5-kg pumpkin is tossed through a snowstorm such ... pumpkin meet the ground in McDermott Court? How much time, in seconds, does

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  celebrated the series a number of times in the way we celebrate: with hacks ... building were relabeled to represent rooms in Hogwarts. (The number "9 ... in Boston, the two biggest movie theaters, the Boston Common 19 and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fold, Throw, Recycle I used to get in trouble for doing things like this.

  

  In kindergarten, I used to get in trouble for throwing paper airplanes in class, but apparently, that's not the case at MIT. I received this email just now in my inbox. I might try to revive my skills. For

  • by Bryan
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In ... , hypercubes, the Black Death, and more, taught in a fun/crazy style by MIT ... Important note: the weather forecast has a 70%+ chance of rain Friday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  Today, MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, published a story with our current number of applications: 12,440. This represents a 9% increase over ... ... Guessers within half a percent either way [12378, 12502] were Anonymous (from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  the weekend to have such a terrible end to it - see Anna H. '14's post ... creation?  In the outside indent between buildings 6 and 8, there was a giant ... were interested in becoming bloggers or at least really excited to meet

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch Ceri on SciShow! teenage mutant YOUTUBE NERDFIGHTERS

  

  prolific blogger/vlogger who graduated in June with a double-major in 7A ... , writing and editing science content for the show, but a few days ago she went in front of the camera to nerd-fight SciShow creator Hank Green

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2016