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  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  importantly, did you remember that the registration deadline is this Thursday ... drive that point home. If the W3C weren't meeting down the hall I'd even be tempted to break out the blink tag. CPW is an enormous event. It

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  EA Admits: Hopefully, you got Dave's email about the admitted student ... didn't get the email or lost it, let me know in the comments (leave your email address) and I'll get the information to you. It should be fun and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.

  

  cast your vote for Ksplice in the Forbes "Boost Your Business" Competition!) One of the aspects of MIT culture I most enjoy is the Institute ... to make the world a better place. Another cornerstone of MIT culture

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  blog entries that I completely lost the motivation to finish as soon as I graduated and went home to spend a wonderful summer outside in the sunshine. (To answer the questions from my previous entry: no, really, I graduated

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  grad student, submitted this video for the Nanonation Video Contest ... the more common questions: Is there a nanotechnology major at MIT? Not ... opportunities to focus on nanotechnology. The primary majors connected to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  runs out the door* *begins epic journey on bike across campus (~1.5 miles ... not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the ... from place to place. I'm dead serious. --- Happy May! Yay. It's the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  -MIT Exchange. This is the actual exchange program. CMI is the Cambridge-MIT Institute that promotes partnership happenings between the two universities. They are the people that started CME and have been funding it for the

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  applying to college. Not just applying to MIT, but the entire college ... there who are just like you, going through the same anxiety, the same excitement, the same fears, the same pressures. I'd like to provide an outlet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  something due every day of the week. Monday: 18.310 test corrections were due. 18.310 is Principles of Applied Mathematics, the discrete version (18.311 is the continuous version). In this class, the tests are deliberately

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  Poker Authority"), will be on the Bravo reality television show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." Yes, tonight (Tuesday, June 20) at 10 p.m., Ed will get made over by the Fab Five as part of their new season in Las

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? On keyboards in German internet cafes, the y and z keys ... I should make good use of the .25 Euro I just spent. So, a blog entry ... weekend in a charming rooftop cafe overlooking the Mosel River. Anyway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  So in hopes to show you more about what classes are like, over the ... .007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and ... deposited in holes that looked like the windows in Simmons. Did you know

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  the contestants on the reality TV show Beauty and the Geek 2 (guess ... the geek category: alums of Caltech and the University of Chicago.Regular action applicants across the country are concerned about the processing of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  the question, "What's the typical MIT student like?" and then they have to say something like, "Oh, the campus is incredibly diverse but all ... office--you really do an excellent job--but I think I just came up with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  'm not famous for being a rockstar. :-) First, the "rockstar" bit. We had ... comments in the previous entry - so hysterical and creative. Reading that thread helped me get over the end-of-vacation blues - many thanks. For the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  Hiya. So on my way back home to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, I took the ... Philadelphia, but it's the best I've got on my home computer. Anyway, we arrived ... . Since I watch The Amazing Race every week, I knew that the first things we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made ... only recall one fisherman (fisherperson?) from the thousands of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  Those of you who have been following me on the blogs for a while - or ... since I first played it in 8th grade, and the characters and the story ... qualify what exactly about it has stuck with me for ~40% of my life - the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  guy by the name of Matt McGann visited my poster at the Intel Science ... offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the ... Science department, and the little dome barely visible behind it. Before you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  formally welcome you admitted and delightful goobers to the Institute. Four ... expletives (that I can't post on the blogs) with my dad. I earnestly hope that ... . Thursday morning: Spend the morning with my 20.380 group working on our

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013