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• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  Hi everyone. I'm so exhausted so this is going to be quick, but I ... supportive comments. You guys got me through today - I seriously don't know what I would have done without you. This situation sucked for all of us

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  "How do I get to New Amsterdam?" "Just follow that road and don't be ... moments, then you'd never know you had one. (3) Time and time again I've said that I don't care, that I'm immune to gloom, that I'm hard through

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.

  

  No, I'm not talking Clark Kent here. I'm talking about the speed of light! I'm talking about what happened 100 years ago today. Don't tell ... , I only discovered this little snippet of information yesterday while

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX continued The rain killed my hawaiian outfit.

  

  years I don't know where I've been while it was happening. East Campus ... , trebuchets, and catapults. Burton-Conner, I believe, was also responsible ... wheel - a lazy river - a bouncy ball drop Monday, I planned on

  • by Bryan
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  One year ago tomorrow -- August 6, 2004 -- I started the first of six ... blogs up and running, I feel very proud of what we've been able to do. Over the past year, I've learned a lot about blogging and how to best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  When I got my first guitar at age 3, I immediately began dreaming of playing with (and for) other people. This dream took many forms when I got to college - I played solo in coffeehouses, as half of an acoustic duo

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  I think FUN would be a good way to describe this weekend. THURSDAY Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump ... The Patriot which is a movie I have yet to see in it's entirety

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  until we hear back from everyone. With postmarks on May 2, I don't expect ... coming up quickly for you, too, and I hope that you've found another school ... Tuesday is the night I do pub trivia with my friends. One of last night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  MIT stationary, I cannot begin to tell you how sorry I am. That is ... . We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I ... be angry with us. I know that it was insulting and made an already

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  First off, I'd like to thank everyone who comments on this and the other blogs. I do read all of your comments, and even if I don't respond, you should know that I have read and thought about your comment. Having

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  out Bryan's latest post) Rushil wrote, "I have a question regarding the MIT application. I have made a research project on a space settlement on the moon(that was used by my school's team( I was a leader of that

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

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  subsidized. For me, the big reason I wanted to go to PUMAC was to meet a bunch ... Kendall Station at around 1:15 PM that Friday, two weeks ago. I’m travelling ... it became more like seven. I had prepared for this and brought some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  for clarity. I promise that the frequent snide remarks are all in good fun! Day 1: culture shock Greetings from the west parallel! I have yet to find a souvenir store in the faraway lands of Putz, but I will send

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  I usually reserve these kinds of posts for life-changing classes, the ... world around me and see things in a perspective I've never really ... the last semester the class happened being Spring 2014. I remember when

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  lorde made my nyc itinerary and i started blogger beef?

  

  meeting where Caleb M. '27 and I had a heated argument over who had the ... ="121523" /] And I'll admit he out-Lorded me on the blogger wrapped. Fine. Whatever. But today, dear readers, I raise you a new level of Lorde devotion. In

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 22, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  An MIT Acronym Quiz how many can you decode?

  

  , though, I have finally learned how to spell Massachusetts Institute of ... show up in my inbox and in conversations regularly, and even if I don't know the exact words that they stand for, I usually know what entities

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  here. Over the past 3 weeks, I’ve found myself doing all of these - but ... . Now, the important stuff: When I first got my acceptance to the program - I was super intimidated for a lot of reasons. Growing up as the

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  with the average broke-college-student budget. Andi and I were both on Bus 3, so I sat next to him and we yapped incessantly about research and ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] i drew this on my phone[/caption] Skiing! I missed the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  I met up with some alumni at [annotation note="the pub that for some ... sure our performance was as hype as possible. after, I headed to Felipe ... . on Friday, I finished a pset, got lunch with a friend in Somerville

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  It's been—checks watch—two weeks since I last posted, which is a week ... favorite styles. I decided to narrate a scene from last Saturday night. I ... which? Homeoptotes On a certain date, I carried a crate with a lot of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022