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  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  symposium that I attended on Friday was quite a different assembly. Held at ... glucose levels. I was famished by the end of the talk, but luckily it was lunch time! One chicken sandwich, cookie, and bag of chips later, I found

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this ... resources. I think you'll like these; I know I do. MAKE: It all starts with ... Instructables, I have to mention howstuffworks.com, since it is another favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  ,'' Elizabeth Lozada said. ''I just remember thinking it would be the premier ... about the inevitable goodbye. ''This whole week, I've tried not to think about it,'' the Lake View High School secretary said. ''I told my co

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  crazy things happened yesterday, and I totally blame/credit this whole ... important that I had to wake Mitra up from her nap to tell her. Now, I like to ... , but I'd still like to paraphrase a particularly excellent quote from Voo

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  -down version of what alumni receive. I, along with 100,000+ other MIT grads ... -to-date on their classmates' developments. This summer, I was elected to a ... was this weekend. As I was writing it, I realized how interesting my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the New York Stock Exchange (maybe I'll see fellow MIT alum and NYSE CEO John Thain '77). On the bus ride down, I was reading today's New York

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... ceremony is a black tie event; I was sporting my tux. It's a pretty swank ... , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  regular action, and I'd guess that number will be in that neighborhood again ... action decisions in mid-March. In my experience, I don't find extra formal essays to be particularly helpful or insightful. I generally do not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  Last night after work and before the Red Sox game, I went out to ... ? Not my favorite version, I must say. The night was otherwise incredibly ... excitement in Boston now is like nothing I've felt before anywhere else. Yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  -to pizza spot for many MIT students. But not me. I am A4's biggest hater, as I believe their pizza defies all known laws of reality. For one, the ... ="This was exactly what happened the first time I had a slice of A4 pizza three

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  Communications and Special Projects — I am doing more writing than ever, but the ... like [annotation note='In fact, now that I think of it, many aspects of working at MIT are like playing Elden Ring. When I started working here 15

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  activism, dialogue and solidarity. Throughout the weekend, I tried to keep track of everything that was happening and I will try to recreate most of ... , Sarah S. ’24 and I meet in front of McCormick to head to South Station to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  Last fall, I took STS.S20, Tales of Two Parallels: East Campus ... fall, and I want to encourage people to take it! [caption id ... other by sight or name were quick to meet. I came in fresh from REX and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad ... ="aligncenter" width="438"] I couldn't have done it without them![/caption] My team ... placing third, with a total of 103 climbs! I climbed the Green Building a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  Welcome to my seventh and final(!) tourist-y post. Previously, I have ... Boston, and three Boston adventures. This time, I'm moving away from the ... campus). CAMBRIDGE ON CAMPUS BAHFest This April, I attended my third

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon ... nine entries, A-J (minus I because it's ~imaginary~), in a highrise stack ... Mollie B. '06's post re:MacG remains true, but I may need to update some of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  from throughout the duration of last year that I would not have any ... them. I think it’s interesting to look back on all those little ... things. Or, more often, they’re just fun, and, well, random. I tried to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  Cue Monday afternoon. I'm hungry because I decided to not spend money for lunch and just wait for dinner. -Minutes later- I was walkin' through the Stata Center, when out the corner of my eye, I saw this pretty

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of a building, and with it, inspiration and optimism. I’ve searched high and low, from Facebook to Instagram to Reddit but to no avail. Motivation was nowhere to be found (a.k.a. I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  opinion of it. I’ve been thinking about it throughout the day, and felt it ... modification of language which many people would think of as controversial. I don ... non-binary pronoun like “they” to refer to everyone. When I was talking

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016