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  A Day at the Beach: Quick Trips From MIT The ocean is only a short train ride or drive away!

  , there are some good beaches right in Boston or its neighboring cities. I took one of those very quick trips this past weekend when my friend and I

  • by mitblogs
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Videos and photos and more Lots of cool coverage of MIT stuff from sites, blogs, and vlogs across the web.

  

  folks across campus this past Thursday (I, of course, missed it for the 11 ... and his ASSIST project. I promise you, this is pretty cool.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  Today, two quick items I've recently seen on the web (more substantial entries to come this week): First, I saw a link on a military blog (Naval Open Source Intelligence) to a relevant MIT OpenCourseWare course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  Some random links I've been accumulating: The New York Times asks Professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT's Poverty Action Lab about ... before settling into her own blog here in about a month.  I don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  EA Blogger Application Decisions The results are in.

  

  I just want to say on behalf of the committee that we are truly impressed with all of the applications (and there are MANY). Your collective ... Blogging Year 3 is going to be unparalleled. I'll shut up now and give you

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  hacking history comes to a close. I, for one, was quite impressed with the students behind "Howe & Ser." For the memories, I've below tallied some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  online on Saturday. I want to urge you one final time: if you have not ... . Our office phone number is 617-253-4791. With that said, I'm now leaving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT Problems – EA Deadline Now 11/4 EA deadline extended to 11/4 - details inside.

  

  operating smoothly now. I'll spare you all the gory details of what happened ... servers - we're MIT and we have kickass servers - but sometimes I think the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  I'm a bit under the weather today, and I'm still working on the next ... , November 11. I saw Hot Hot Heat on a previous tour swing through Boston, and ... Thomas the week before, and Ludacris is in town tonight) Last entry, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  . ``Obviously it's not built for the road,'' he said.   I don't know if they were issued a fine, but if so, I'd be more than happy to help defray the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The Admissions Staff It's my pleasure to introduce you to our current team.

  

  I've been trying to think of a good way to kick off the new admissions cycle (class of 2010 - woot!) and it's finally come to me. We had ... , and set new goals for this cycle. I'm very excited to embark on my

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  I finished finals yesterday (Tuesday), so now I am pretty much done with the first half (2/4 years) of MIT. That is both an exhilirating and scary thought. Here are some photographs from Ring Delivery, last

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  international selection. It was extremely difficult, but I'm very excited ... had a quick item about stress and the college admissions process... I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  entry, I'll be going home to relax tonight. Things are starting to get ... you're not planning on doing architecture at MIT, I still encourage you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  friends and I decided to travel to Iceland!! This was my first time ever ... trampolines, and the wind was trying to eat us. It felt so very college :D I won’t bore you with the details, even though it was AMAZING and I feel

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  genre. Today I’m just going to ramble about minor happenings this week ... which nobody was very attentive, I’m sure), and, at the appointed time ... the first floor of Burton-Conner (and by first I mean second, because we

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  the best cookies I've ever had. Rocking the Oculus Rift. Hacking, as ... . The second-place-winning project of HackMIT 2013, in the making. I...am not a hacker (yet). I went into the hackathon with a mild curiosity for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  Professor Maier, teaching is not a one-way street. I believe she thinks that ... undergrads, are often so swamped with work from our technical classes that - I ... on the wall at Independence Hall. I find it amazing that American

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  Despite the constant intrusion of multivariable calculus, I think I ... “go with the flow, ride the wave of life” mentality is so fulfilling – I ... , don’t they. Most of my minutes will probably come from Taekwondo. If I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  . In an attempt to alleviate confusion, I sat down with my colleague Mc ... belong, but don't stress out over it. McGreggor and I also brainstormed a ... /Queen, "Most Likely to Succeed," "I have read all of Modern Library's Top 100

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009