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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  opportunity to dine -- they don't serve hamburgers and fries there, you know ... , but unfortunately it is 1 AM and I can't remember what they are -- I ... don't believe me. On the MIT skyline, there are two Greek letters, phi

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  top of the world but you don't really know why, or how. Before you know ... cancer. Sounds great, doesn't it? Esteemed persons believe in you and ... for the SAT.) Shock! Your first five exams don't go so well. They must

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  "lynn." I didn't even really consider putting "el en ex" as a choice ... could be sure that the professor wouldn't be there to see me. Not that he ... that I wasn't around to break his expensive glassware anymore, but

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  following gem: "You're an MIT cheerleader? I didn't even know MIT had ... school; your athletic talent alone won't get you into the school, but it ... intents and purposes. They're just not NCAA-recognized, and they don't have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  undergraduate degree in the subject of your choice. You don't have to be a biology ... D program. Master's degrees don't mean much in biology or other sciences ... people know about science/engineering PhD programs: You don't have to pay

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  only one prize in each category instead of two, and my work wasn't so ... is nice, but I guess you can't really compete against school pride ... . Our floor t-shirts. If you'd like one, just send me an e-mail--we've got

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  and see if I responded. Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can ... term was not bad at all, but I still haven't achieved my MIT goal of ... they couldn't find enough people to make quorum and the team gets find if

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  , the class didn't prepare me at all to analyze this production, but I did ... during the play-ending thunderstorm. Still, I can't complain too much ... internet. He also pretended that he doesn't know anything about this blog

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  I mention I'm anosmic?). But other jobs, like the MATCH school, don't ... those that haven't read The Color of Water, it'll make 200 pages of Veto ... engineering a person can take, but I have a high tolerance for music. I don't

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  , which I haven't yet answered. It was: "It would be good if you could talk ... don't even have a chance to meet the hundreds upon hundreds of students ... religious schools of various sorts. This isn't to say that we prefer public

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  It doesn't take long being on MIT's campus to notice all the laptop ... honestly couldn't survive MIT without. The original image is black and white ... of going on my computer; even if I don't like the sticker that much, I

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  I shouldn’t have ranked Maseeh first. That’s the thought that kept ... that, while Maseeh didn’t have the culture other dorms had, its proximity ... I had individual friends in Maseeh, I’d figured, dorm culture wasn’t

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  better. It’s weird to feel so connected to someone I don’t personally know, but my respect for him is very real. I wouldn't have been surprised if ... , daring, and curious. I can’t think of a better speaker. You never truly

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  i haven’t had the heart to throw out, and since today i really needed ... don’t). pnr behaviour, etc. [carousel image1="106395" image2 ... unfortunately didn’t initially click and now i feel a little far from. hall rush

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  things didn't work out because of covid. I chose Germany because of my long ... , I head over to the meeting room. I’m presenting second, which I don’t ... , it’s my turn to present. I’m a little nervous, since I haven’t had time

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  ”, the Physics department at MIT doesn’t follow along this path but instead ... these introductory assignments and sequences don’t amount to a large share ... /presentation don’t affect your overall grade since they’re meant to be purely a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  , but there isn’t really any character design class that we are aware of ... story for VisDev as for character design: MIT doesn’t offer classes in this, and we didn’t have time to cross reg at MassArt for this.  3D

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  won't bore you with the nitty gritty of training but gradually I ... have in many of these park pictures :) I didn't take hardly any naps so I ... to get up early and put our running clothes on.  I wasn't incredibly

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  wound up in Random Hall. I didn’t even recognize her when we re-met during ... things got mixed together, and some things haven’t been separated yet, like ... own without looking anything up, but I haven’t learned any faster

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  as Buddha's Delight and T. J. Scallywaggle's), but many, many ... be ECs aren't the 'deciding factor,' but when the acceptance rate is ~4 ... playing an instrument that isn't taught in school? One last query is, in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006