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• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  , but I have decided to remove the photos until I can fix this problem ... friends seem to be coping pretty well. In fact, a few students apparently had so much spare time on their hands, they actually decided to provide

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email in place of the snail mail?" Yes, send it to admissions ... . ------------------------------------- John wrote: "IB appeals to me because of its variety and it's coursework

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your ... incredible intellectual feel to it. Ok, so if I were only in love with Boston ... gives you the full month of January to participate in these independent

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  turn to this hobby time and time again when I picked it up at the ... started measuring time in units of how long it took me to knit a headband ... in neck trying to see who can outsmart whichever trashing algorithm we

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  give me steady enough footage to not cause motion sickness. Whoops. The timelapse component of the video kind of failed, too. It turns out that when you try to speed up an already-wobbly video to 800%, it becomes a blurry

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  at Yale (I don't need to use Google to know that Yale is an amazing ... ? Or does it mean I shouldn't go?" Hmm... tough to know. I can understand ... MIT when I first got here. But it can be hard to know whether that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one ... Columbia as he is helping to develop the University's master plan. It is hard to present MIT in 20 minutes, especially when you're used to having

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology is giving its best scholarly treatment to a ... to the show said they were taken aback by its piquant language and ... you pulled a hack (though the hosts said "prank")? Is it wierd to be in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP ... suitemate at the dinnerware class (i.e. which fork to use, is my bread plate ... team =) Anyway, it was amazing to hear these guys talk; hearing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  (and I know you're out there) can buy it here. Dylan is currently hard ... , and one of the topics dealt with writing. It got me thinking about some of my old college friends who are writers, and two quick web searches

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  CPW is over. The May 3 reply date is quickly approaching. What to do? How can you make the best decision? If you've made up your mind for sure about whether or not to attend MIT, please let us know your decision

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  it too quickly can separate its molecules and cause it to become gritty ... Laboratory for Chocoloate Science. According to their Wiki, LCS can be ... the surface or "bloom," causing it to take on a whitish sheen or oily

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  black people can relate to each other and speak to each other - it's a ... : enough to show him he's in the wrong but not enough so that it can't be ... . "I can't publish this," I think, "I can't even look at it." I close the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  you have room to fit. If you can't fit it all, that's fine -- as you ... using clips from my wrestling matches, I gave it to the coaches before, but the team no longer exists :( Can I submit it to the admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  or the yoga pants Liz decided to wear into the snow. You can also wear ... lightheated... And then people went for it. By 5pm we were able to catch ... early dinner. A beautiful end to a snowy day. Although it's back

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  . You’ll work hard, really hard, but you can get used to it; you’ll strike ... this happy ending and tore it to pieces. There was still a lot I had to ... system of the first semester worked for me, and I had adjusted to it. Then

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  , etc., but were only ever able to practice those things independently ... actually had it's first birthday a couple weeks ago, where we went to the ... to pass through. What actually came out of it was so much more! In the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  over you, and all you can do is pass the ball. It’s hard to see past the ... your body is saying, “Can we do this?? No, we can’t!!” (Also quick ... just can’t do it… As I'm sure you know by now, “you miss 100% of the

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

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  used to be. I have been trying to help TIM the Beaver get an internship ... ready for the geek-in-chief. President-elect Barack Obama used to collect ... his inner geek, but you can tell it's there," especially when he goes

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  catch the production in its final days. That was all we planned to do. But ... White House Office. I think I had reason to raise an eyebrow because it ... forwarded it to my friends to ask if they, too, thought the email was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024