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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  Following up on JKim's entry about excitement for the unveiling of ... officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and once, halfway through, for

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

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  enrichment summer program for promising high school juniors who are interested ... entrepreneurship. The Research Science Institute (RSI), sponsored by the Center for ... Camp (HSMC) Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS) The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  this list, as an 8.02 exam, psets for 5.12 and 18.03, and being CPW rush chair for Senior Haus eliminated any chance of getting some of that. $10 ... your parents what to expect over the next year. (She's visiting for a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  practices for analysis and design of manufacturing enterprises. Emphasis is on ... include process physics and control, design for manufacturing, and ... is the first time in my life that I've participated in Lent. For the

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  The postmark/submission deadline for Early Action is tonight! How is ... , for the pieces that come via snail mail, we have to open the envelopes ... send your entire case to the admissions staff for review. At peak times

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  skating rink. Students got to ice skate for free in their creative Halloween ... Halloween event of its own. Thanks for all of the great costume suggestions ... time to go shopping for supplies. I settled on dressing up as Trinity

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  wish to be considered for an admissions blogging position, and we've made ... considered.) While the traditional schedule will remain true for this year ... decided to add an Early Action (EA) round for a couple of reasons - first

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... fabric of reality, that if it changes its schedule for even one day without ... Close. Caroline was totally unable to go for some reason such as sickness

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  garden insulates the building and offers a quiet haven for residents ... National Real Estate Investor reports that "a green building can pay for ... -filled apartments is quite steep. For $3000-4000 per month, you too can live in a one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  MIT alums are known for many things, but i's not everyday that one ... recognizable real-estate moguls in the world. For those of you who haven't heard ... spotlight for himself? Comments, anyone? Anyway, he founded a multi

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Overall, a good first day on the road. Woke up early, packed for the ... Paris or Nicky though) and grabbed the MIT boxes that were waiting for me ... perfect match, but it's close enough for me. After that meeting (which

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  Hospital for the meeting, thanks to one of our Educational Counselors who ... throughout the meeting -- thank you for sticking it out. I hope the meeting was ... on this day. To acknowledge the day, I asked the Miami crowd for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for ... for the rest of eternity. There are two things I consider to be the ... uniresidential singles. I lived in A-Entry for three years, and am going to move to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  excited, sure, but the third win in four years for the Pats is nothing ... -Pakistan test matches, Six Nations rugby, why people shouldn't cheer for ... up on. I've been writing this entry for a while now and am less than

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took Thursday off (it was a holiday for MIT people). But Weds, Fri, Sat, and now ... the 30-minute read, except for the new guy (that's me). My average is

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  writing mood for the last couple months, but I'm back and I'm excited to ... here. I stayed in Boston for June-July and then traveled and saw family for August. I was continuing my research with the Isola lab on inner

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  I signed up for a healthy and sane schedule of 48 units and a UROP ... have all semester to CAD our designs, CNC molds for them, injection mold ... fish Tui and La from Avatar. Shout-out to Audrey for designing the fish

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  Twitter. Since my blogs do a decent job of encompassing how 2022 went for ... branch out more socially, and probably I could study harder for my job ... and like, if I had Greg's attitude of "it's hard for me to see how I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  Reasoning in AI. Wednesday, 9:30 AM. Stayed for the entire class. This class is a replacement for Artificial Intelligence, so it would fulfill a ... Learning. Wednesday, 11 AM. Stayed for the entire class. I took part of this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... really could've prepared me for the reality of it. It's a genuine timesuck

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022