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  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  I'm on the West Coast now, and things are great. First, I flew into Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the ... team?" I've also had to perfect the sort of fake smile and forced giggle

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  : check out the back of a US$5 and you'll find Daniel Chester French 1871's ... For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip ... , but well worth the visit and time away from the office. I'm still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  (just kidding! I did my share of the work! Promise!) and taking pictures ... the craziest and most entertaining lecturers to grace the front of 10 ... proceeded to tell us about the discovery of the element administratium and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  , however, I ended up on the opposite side of Mass Ave from my building, and ... again, and ran back out into the middle of the road, plying passerby with ... It's beginning to warm up here - still in the 20s, but sunny and nice

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  since I first played it in 8th grade, and the characters and the story ... note="and watched youtube videos of the ones i couldn't"]I could get my hands on[/annotation], and literally cannot count the number of times that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  ever-worsening condition of Senioritis and the stress of knowing that we ... pi and not the digits of your phone #? --You are one well ... with make-up on, and maybe ride in a limo, but in the end you’re just

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  lots of people, both among the students and among the staff. I don ... It is term, and now I have classes! Five of them, right now. I hope ... drop back to four. I've provided my first impressions of each class

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  of my meeting I popped open my PowerBook, accessed the score, and ... the same talking points. I have plenty of stories, and I know waaay too ... Hackensack, NJ something that wasn't true. In this neck of the woods, people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  whatever. In the first half of the course, each lovely transformation and ... Game in the middle of his lecture slides* and then inexplicably flings ... than VIBRATIONS AND WAVES. Coincidence? I think not.). The first one may

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  back to the intensity and rigor of MIT, has been these daylong or two ... took the T into the city and visited Seaport for the first time since I interned in that district the summer between my First and Second year. And

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  refuse both the medal and the $1,000,000 prize awarded for solving any of ... "that thing from the first five minutes of Good Will Hunting." If you ... beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday! (a.k.a my first video blog) vlogging? MEAT CAKE!

  

  Hallo blogger faithful! Undoubtedly you've noticed that the times, they are a changing. The air is crisp, the trees are ebbing into their autumn palette and just as winter comes every year, so too do birthdays

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 30, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  -game was a series of 5 games played over 5 weeks. The first-place winners of ... involved "wits, skill, and the teensiest amount of luck," to quote the ... this post, I've analyzed (with the help of the Gamemasters) and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  , and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... "]Randomites,[/annotation] namely stories of the engines revving through the day, and swarms of bikers ... , and needlessly difficult. I recalled the first time I'd driven a car

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  the first day. How did I find myself at one of the most incredible ... Hotel Pennsylvania and it was amazing. Most of the people I talked to were ... attendees and found out that a lot of them came all the way from the West

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  except (a) the parents are real (and well-acted) characters and therefore actually part of the plot and (b) the kids are just so much more intelligent and witty than their counterparts of yesteryear. But it's still... The

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  media is, in fact, drinkable. It comes in a whole range of pink colors! It ... anecdotal evidence. I haven’t tried many of these, and you should try none of ... (including biotin and vitamin B12) Taste: 8/10 “Like lemonade, without the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  Opener!! We had our very first game of the season on our home field! I ... , Boston has nestled its way into my heart and joined one of the many places ... is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  the whole thing, I got to see a couple of rounds of competition. Maybe ... for my laptop and am in the process of reinstalling everything ... because right now I'm a little too tired to do a coherent entry. The end of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  approach than just leaving the recommendation form on their chair and running away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010