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  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I ... weekend (now the #1 movie in the country): Lots of folks have been interested in 4-145, the Blackjack Team practice room. For example, Chris wrote

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  The MIT Class of 2017 Brass Rat was revealed on February 13th during the 2017 Ring Premiere. I had the pleasure of serving on the 2017 Ring ... culture and traditions, it was an honor to be able to contribute to the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  (title inspired by Derrick's recent blog =D) So, the Early Action ... was very surprised that someone noticed this fact. The note was short ... . It wasn't deliberate in the beginning but I wrote the third entry

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  pictures of CPW, so here they are: Mason '10 (yes, that Mason, from the facebook group you all know and love) helps me make signs for the dorm. Go Mason! The Snack Bar, where we kept the thousand-plus dollars worth of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  Hackers don't waste any time hacking CPW this year. It's the first ... you ever been walking down the hall and caught a whiff of rotting flesh? Maybe heard the sounds of a shuffling creature behind you, limping and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  Confusing screens at Chatelet station, Paris The term's almost over! While I'm excited for the summer, with a continuation of my January internship at the BNSF Railway in Texas, I'll also be missing some of the great

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like ... and ate the blackberries and apple and cheese I brought from home, and the kids trudged past to their classes, and I wondered how I would have

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please ... Raymond's website and you can find the original post here. Part 1 ... designing the model, Raymond knew he wanted a turntable for easily maneuvering

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  sometime around 3 am, sharing food on the sofa of our freshman year suite and ... , like, the best room ever."  "Oh not just any double, THE double."    And thus, The Double was born. The inception of this idea sent us

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  -speaking. Whenever I tell people I'm a theater minor at MIT, there are the occasional ... something. GEL has taught me that this can mean the difference between killing ... is what led Tony Eng, a course VI senior lecturer, to organize the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  The blogs have been quiet lately. Summer is ending, freshman are ... officers are preparing for the admissions cycle (sort of like preparing for ... by the Video4Colleges podcast about the drone delivery video from Pi

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  explanations... The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind this: I challenged the other admissions officers to a "no-shave" reading

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  house and I decided that I really missed the Charles River and the Zesiger Center. A few of you were curious about the facilities, so I thought I'd post some pictures. Plus, you can use the Z Center for free during the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  tomorrow and it's all for you. For four days MIT crams all the awesome stuff we do throughout the year into one gigantic weekend extravaganza with ... the people I polled about CPW, the one event they said meant more than

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  Glamorous moments, in the traditional sense, are fleeting at MIT. There are the occasional formal dances and student runway shows, but it ... the night before, or knowing that you will be spending the rest of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Pennyslvania leads the country in mushroom production, supplying 45% of the nation's mushrooms. California, in second place, provides ... , but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  I'm frequently asked about the students that are admitted to MIT. Who ... mostly come from local newspapers. The stories are pretty inspirational, and the students are going to be great members of the MIT community. A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  's the 8 page draft paper that was due today. Or the 6.004 lab where I have to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  Prologue “Guess what, gang?” Fred Harris – the director of the MIT ... a dozen speakers hidden around Kresge auditorium while the stage transformed into an impromptu dance floor. That Friday, we performed in the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

        On the evening of June 6, 2012, a satellite with its camera pointed toward the sun sent the first 500 GB of its daily report back to base. Clouds covered the world thousands of miles below

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012