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• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  Chiara Coletti, a vice president. Hmm... it will be interesting to see how ... writing habits. "It appeared to me that regardless of what a student wrote ... stunned by how complete the correlation was between length and score. "I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 play by play It slices and it dices.

  

  Her name is Betsy, and she got me to the finals of 2.007. This just goes to show you how lucky one individual can be. I actually thought ... long? =P

  • by Bryan
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  by Joyce Carol Oates that we read in AP English. When I read it, I thought that it was the most obvious thing in the entire world that the ... she taught Jonathan Safran Foer how to write, and then I realized she

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  learn how to integrate the techniques for a film. It was also cool to ... as opposed to we-don't-even-know-how-long ... Computer Graphics, but it is unfortunately only offered in the fall. So, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  at 5th East the night before. It's right across the street, and walking ... that if I ever buy a half acre of land, I will build a deck on it à la JD ... painful but doable. But it's Saturday, and according to my 18

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  , unveils it at an extravagant event, and stages a lavish delivery ceremony. How did this all start? The history of the Massachusetts Institute of ... . Why? Because it is made of gold and features a beaver on the front. Why

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  class, RingComm designs the ring over a six-month period, unveils it at an extravagant event, and stages a lavish delivery ceremony. How did this all start ... ring is known as the Brass Rat. Why? Because it is made of gold and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  : "...It would be hard for me to choose which to attend, if I didn't have to ... applications does sound a little bit like I'm complaining, but nothing could be further from the truth. It really is a joy and a privilege to read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  , but two from Harvard. Does that mean Harvard is outpacing MIT’s geek quotient? A: It could be. Or it could be that the potency of geekiness is ... from a "40 Year Old Virgin"-esque chest waxing scene. Here's how Ankur

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  experience. It’s a magical shared experience.” -Sal Khan, founder of Khan ... wonder what I'm still doing here. It's true, what am I doing here?. I can't believe it's been one year already. In this intervening year, I evolved into

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  the early morning and late at night. i wonder how long i can last before ... can only imagine how he has survived without scurvy for this long). I ... lounges, one with a tv, and in essence it is one long hallway. however, two

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  wasting time worrying about how hard or stressful or impossible it seems ... My schedule this semester is, to put it kindly, pretty [annotation ... on time, so I am simply doing it anyway. In many ways this is exactly

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  . We will have to see exactly how it goes, but I suspect that this trip ... discovered how hard it is to get good pictures in the fog, especially when ... magical place where rich people live. It does seem quite mystical from the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  your hand. Now combine it. See how much imaginary fun you're having? I ... , for a Christmas special on how much it'd actually cost to buy all the ... -y - maybe it's that I keep listening to Christmas songs, maybe it's that we

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  harmony given a sequence of notes, and that’s how we automated it. My ... at all. Looking back, I guess it’s pretty amazing how we managed to go ... I’m still working on my post about Mystery Hunt, and I realized it’s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  agreed that the results depend heavily on how students define a “leadership ... trouble, and cheer a lot at races. I don’t even know how I became captain. I think one day my coach just announced it to the team. Now, as a captain

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  UROPs. How hard is it to get a UROP in physics? Since it's more ... reason (*cough* global warming *cough*), it was 54F (12C) and sunny. I got ... -shirts to the crowd. It was a great game -- the last one I'll ever cheer for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  how you will spend it, and how you will remember it. ... , but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has ... your life plans or self worth on it. For another thing, whether you end

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  , IAP stands for Independent Activities Period. It's a month-long ... It's good to finally be back blogging (: As usual, there was the end ... to be expected from MIT right? But I made it through... of course

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  the inside and wondering how long I can keep the charade up) Five ... When asked how their first shift went, most of my fellow EMT students will say something like, "It was good! No calls, though. Pretty

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010