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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1 ... awesomeness that make me glad to be at MIT (not to mention projects like this ... topic by a couple hours. I think he has my office bugged!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  question, which was forwarded on to me by the awesome Nick '09: Alex isn ... from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... who wrote scripts (computer programs) to "stuff" the ballot box. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He ... idea it was to get that close).   The world often gives us a gentle ... emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  browsing through some stores, I returned home to get ready to head to an ... when I hit 20). To kick off part of the festivities, free hot air ... balloons, the balloon crew let us know the weather was going to be unfriendly

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  I have multiple things to admit here. 1. My arms kind of hurt from ... thing that's happened to me in the last few days is that Adam and I went to Harvard Square for ice cream tonight. 3. I'm not feeling

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing the MIT Application Essays Hurgh. I know.

  

  lil' bit about me 0:36 Why you DON'T need to stress out 1:21 What "being ... you want to study?" essay 5:17 The "how do you improve the lives of others?" essay 6:38 The "describe your world" essay 8:38 The "challenge you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  Oh look, how interesting. MIT seems to have won an Olympic gold medal at Torino. All photo credits go to Matt Peddie '09. A pretty nighttime ... stayed in place despite its best efforts to escape. MIT's victory

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  cleaning spam from my inbox. Join your fellow Student Pugwash members in the ... of Student Pugwash. Pugwash exists to address the effects of science ... Revolution) and STS.310 (Introduction to the History of Science). If I had the

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  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 serve your needs. I hope that this second year of blogging will be even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Matt McGann ‘00 Name: Matt McGann; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Hampton Bays, NY

  

  idealism & commitment to the mission of helping the world Favorite things ... character: Nekobasu? Advice about applying to college/MIT: be open and honest about yourself and your life's circumstances, choose recommenders who can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer Army, Air Force, Navy ROTC?

  MIT is proud to offer Army, Air Force, and Naval ROTC programs on ... MIT provide unparalleled leadership training and practice to cultivate ... 'll have earned not only your degree, but a commission as an officer and
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  yesterday for the 20th annual AIDS Walk San Francisco. Thanks to your many generous donations, I qualified as a Star Walker, and was eligible to wear a ... special. I owe a huge thanks to Tiffany '06 (white hat) and Accenture

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 Pt.2 lecture videos go brr

  

  comes to education-- accessibility heightened by the incredible work from ... to write about a few more of these projects over the summer, but I wanted to give a short update about 18.S190! Just this last week, lecture

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  river to — past the giant catapult.    Yes, there was a hack - a hackapult, to be more precise. According to the IHTFP Hack Gallery: In an attempt to answer the age-old question of how hackers manage to access the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  imagery a bit to claim the first Google search hit for “unreformed by Ikea ... time, collapsed into a high-speed parody of months that used to stretch ... orientation events that turned out to be either unrequired or just plain

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  papers I read every now and then.  I went back to the food tables to get ... huge part of what inspired me to get into computer science research. I ... was for grad students/postdocs/researchers/profs to nEtwORk, but I was

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  play, I was lucky enough to get a tractor in the bonus barn, netting me ... DID YOU KNOW? According to America's Test Kitchen, the best possible ... blog. The reason being that costs me twenty-five cents to send these

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thoughts on Snow quick notes from the journal.

  

  :30 AM (cough. Next House, Monday morning). Your backpack: not as waterproof to it as you thought. Silly: how grass looks like a bad shave when

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi from Cambridge

  

  well, so if you're wondering where I went, I've simply been on the go ... time to put together, and I haven't been in front of a computer much

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  name a living scientist. I wanted to help counter that a little bit by ... South America, but she managed to squeeze in some time for an interview for us! Listen to the full interview here: I hoped you enjoyed me

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017