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  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  .P classes because of the budget cuts in my school. So only the students with ... that you are spending your time in meaningful ways outside of the ... capable not just of doing the work at MIT but capable of much greater things

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 are now ... Regular Action, 33,796 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2026. This ... being well above the pre-pandemic baseline of about 20,000 applications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  keeping track of how many fire alarms each dorm has has since 2021. to our ... hurt my thumb, but I like the aesthetic. And of course, there’s always ... essays about the destructive yet healing nature of fire. Plants sprouting

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  I scanned the front page of The Tech, MIT’s major newspaper, and saw a ... something that would grace the presence of Arthur Ganson! (http ... on display at the MIT Museum. His machines are incredible feats of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  reminds me of simpler times where the first thing I'd do when I got home was ... . At first, it seems a little boring and janky, but the twins quickly ... unsuspecting town. Not only are the residents of the town incredibly quirky and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  funding for the very first i3 project, and several of my very close friends were the "fathers/mothers" of the project. I'm happy to see it continue ... The i3 project features all 11 of MIT's dorms. The preliminary housing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  incredible opportunity to develop a closer bond to some of the world's best ... and 2-5 friends can ask any of your professors out for a feast, to any ... you only have a few more weeks left. Here's the link to the official

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  ’ve started to realize that I tend to trap myself in this view of the world, where everything is absolute. A view of the world where I feel if I don ... is the whole story. It just keeps on going. Bringing new twists and

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  your legal name and the Office of the First Year may use your preferred ... You should use your current, legal first and last name when filling out those fields on the application. This is important so that your
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  better than two stars). Now, Roger Ebert didn't like "War of the Worlds", and not just because of the whole Tom Cruise/Oprah thing. Rather, he was ... , except that he vastly underrates both Galaxy Quest (one of the best movies

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 1 The first winning entry in the photo contest. What a view!

  

  The Orientation photo contest is off to a great start. The first ... MacGregor House, just before sunset. The left half of the picture is the ... Charles River, Massachusetts Avenue bridge, and city of Boston on the right

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  requirement. Our professor, David Pesetsky, is pretty awesome. The majority of ... last week of IAP, during which I did Women's Initiative. The goal of ... structure out of newspaper and masking tape. Some of the girls started out

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some of the topics Here are some of my classmates' CI-M paper topics

  

  Textile industry and trade Determinants of the price of vodka Access to the ... the real estate market for condos Impact of Vioxx's downfall on ... Impact of oil and gas shocks on the macroeconomy Determinants of prices of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  take up a quarter of the page, and to be printed in full color. Also unluckily for me, everyone seemed to be holding a copy of The Tech on Tuesday ... work stand in the way of food. And seeing as I had been sleeping, as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  had to sew a whole set of beds as well as parts of the roof cover?? Or ... this semester has been especially fun and out-of-the-ordinary. So two ... to be erected on the lawn of the Endicott House - MIT's private mansion

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of ... is one supposed to describe the experience of plunging headfirst into ... learned how to drink from the milk bowl of MIT. I'm guessing this skill

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  exercising now or I'll gain the First Year of Graduate School Fifteen. (I ... 's good for you!) Watch absurd amounts of TV. Jomar '06 bought the first season of Lost recently, and basically our entire entry watched the whole

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  already diagnosed you with depression the first couple of times we met," she ... recently for the class of 2024, and i swear all the sophomores were dropping ... proved over the course of a week. but anyways, i saw a message that petey

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  a bone for the first time, during the first pass of an Ultimate ... I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of ... down time - and it's a lot simpler than trying to approach the speed of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... reputable sources agree on the definition of a pset, there is high variance regarding the proper exact spelling of the word. Are they psets, Psets, PSets

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015