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• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  to work on it. So Kim, who is a good painter, asked me if I wanted help ... back in place the next day. We didn't know that if primer dries on the ... . Although my belief is that one should pick a living group based on whether

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  ), Andrez (an awesome hands-on engineer), Nathan (already saving the world ... not, I hope you'll drop me a line here on the blog to say hi. And if you sent me an email after ISEF, I'm still catching up on those... also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the ... , you add me to your list of friends on Thefacebook ;) Your important ... . Back in the fall of 1996 (we had to wait until we were on campus to get

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

  The Ides of March

  

  On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... was David Bauer from New York City, who did a project on quantum dots ... struck me on the day after Einstein's birthday, two weeks after an article

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

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  , including one on some awesome undergraduate research. A snippet: An MIT ... at MIT and lead author on a paper about the result. "SS 433 provides a ... 's trivia: Which US President is pictured on the $1000 bill? (The answer is in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  applications as well as giving a presentation on MIT & admissions to a group ... MIT on a moment's notice and still do an okay job. And people laughed at ... -registration). Basically, all I needed was a signature on a form from the Harvard professor

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

  Likelihood

  

  some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... committee. At some other schools, some admitting is done on the spot -- when ... on Pi Day. I don't know when we'll mail this year yet, but it will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  students participate in them, you knew that every athlete on campus was just ... , Baker House, like most of the dorms and halls on campus, was very involved ... Club of Boston also fields an IM Hockey team. So I have participated on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  totally list that as a talent on your application). Number theory is fun ... this up to one of my housemates, Josh, who was on the winning 2003 ... for going off on a large Mystery Hunt tangent without talking in depth

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  keep my finger on the MIT pulse and chase people around campus to get ... begin by telling you my thoughts on this new portal. Lots of schools have ... get to explore MIT on behalf of all of you. I'm new around here and so

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  Cambridge Half marathon last fall, I accepted. But first, I went on a run ... get back into running. I’ve been on break for too long, and it’s time to ... a lot of things, but don’t follow through. I reflected on myself and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  teammates, I saw the determination etched on their faces. I knew that we all ... answers. Four on one side, four on the other, verifying that all the buzzers worked. I was in the “captain” spot on my team, a symbolic position that

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT ... in touch with MIT – updating the coach on my SAT/ ACT scores, letting ... the right place for me. Five months later, I was on campus stepping onto

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  that’s all you need.' — paraphrased from the instructor on the first day of MIT's pistol class [annotation note="unfortunately I was on the ... I harp on in English about topics they’ve only ever found the words

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Admissions bloggers. I lived on 5th East in East Campus and I majored in course ... Distance Medley (a 5K, a 10K, and a half-marathon, put on by the same organization that puts on the Marathon) for the past two years. [caption id

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  ,742 minutes of music on Spotify, Apple Music, and *checks notes* YouTube Music ... ,029 minutes and 86,156 minutes respectively on Spotify (about 2 months nonstop each)! On the other end of the spectrum, we have Allison and Emiko (the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  twenty in four days.  I always cry on my birthday. I think this is a ... difficulties that I cannot, and don’t need, to handle on my own.  At some point ... friends. Hold on to the people you love. Hugs and hot chocolate can fix many

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  full spreadsheet is linked here, but to expand on/summarize it: I spent ... at least it’s an improvement on past years (I think). I know my ... concentrated on the date when I borrowed the book, but I likely listened the most

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  what? An post-mortem of the exam I did not do well on this exam ... mathematical notation I did not do well on this exam because I had four midterms ... pretty well on the psets, where I can look up what terms like "marginal

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  Jepsen just had a large impact on everyone's psyche in elementary school. I ... it on my shiny new Spotify account and listening to Favourite Colour in ... , Favourite Colour, and I Really Like You. And then we went to the Carly concert on

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022