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  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  . Here, one team is working on "Drawing Conclusions I" (try it yourself at home!). Still trying to solve Drawing Conclusions I... Working on ... home. In my next few entries leading up to the Mystery Hunt, I'll link to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  With the Regular Action deadline just days away, I want to wish all the best to the regular action applicants in finishing up their application materials. Try to get it done soon so you can have a rockin' New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  spend some quality time with my family... I hope many of you are taking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  As you know, I'm a big fan of Indian Bollywood movies, and last night ... the Senior House dormitory), who snuck in just as the film began. I didn't get a chance to talk with him, but as he was leaving I heard his one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of ... published on the MIT Office of Digital Learning blog here.   I continue to ... thrilled to tell me about their projects, and I wanted to try all the demos

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  Update: although Pilot 2021 was canceled, I'm leaving the section about it ... a dining hall. I strongly believe that you shouldn't pick a dorm based ... me: I cannot cook. I had a meal plan during the first semester of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  students.” I was very pleased to endorse the report, along with more than 100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think ... expect. I believe there has been a growing mismatch between what students

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  I've talked a lot about Tagalog, and Tagalog songs, on the blogs, so ... they're shared between many other Philippine languages, so I think it ... parts of my identity, like Tagalog. In the post, I also mention OPM, an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  , back in April 2019. I had no conception of what the Bombers were at this time, but since I was staying on campus an extra day, I heard tons of students talking about the ongoing party. I had no interest in parties at the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  last year, i lived in simmons hall. simmons is known for many things ... floors.   my room last year, which i shared with my two roommates ... .03 (waves and oscillations), 8.04 (quantum physics i), 8.044 (statistical

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  I’ve been home for winter break since last Sunday, and it’s been a ... ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... .[/annotation] Or, well, [annotation note="it will not be"]it will be when I post this

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  , where we made a giant oven and cooked a giant pie in it. Kristen and I ... last semester, over IAP, and basically until it was uploaded, and I ... /logistically difficult), and finally, this. Kristen did a bunch of thermo (0:07), and I

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For ... -edge labs around campus. I have been UROPing since freshman spring, but this year I'm starting in a new lab. The group is in MIT CSAIL (the Computer

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  Freshly minted prefrosh! Three years ago I was in your comparatively ... without my future dark green double-canopy umbrella. I got lost in the Infinite Corridor. I used a power drill. I got my arm signed by Chris M. '12

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for 8.03 (Waves and Vibrations) with high expectations. I was not ... education to drinking from a firehose. I'd like to go out on a limb and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about ... ’re here to study), and I bet you’re really eager to come ... visit an archive to read the full story, but I've pulled out some choice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... days before the deadline, which I have posted below:   I submitted my materials, so why don't I see them in my portal yet? Due to tremendous volume

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  ] While these are nice or whatever, I find them to be a bit generic. Here's what the list would look like [annotation note="Disclaimer: I am fully ... 's bound to be overlap."]if I wrote it.[/annotation] [annotation note

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Last week, I raised my right hand and exchanged a Vulcan salute with ... acting and told him that he would be better off playing the accordion. “I ... nominations than I have years of life. It’s probably very difficult to include

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  I didn't mean to write this entry. I sat down to write about some recent events I've been meaning to blog about for a while - and well, I ... a UROP in their lab, or anything else. This is how Melis and I got an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008