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  A Very McGann Christmas Happy holidays.

  

  attendance. Just a few miles from my house is the famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to ... The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art in the Infinite, Vol. 2 MIT meets King Koopa.

  

  the good ol' days of Nintendo. The small dome with it's very own Mario and pipe. This is my roommate Rob. He willingly accepted my plea to jump up for this photo. The things I get people to do for my blog. Today

  • by Bryan
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  to go from general physics to anything astronomy-applied is far to ... physics major. Funnily enough, I didn't apply to MIT as physics, and it was ... beauty that is 6-7. I instantly called people I knew to tell them I knew

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  _ forget it. Not to mention it really _is_ the basis for the beginnings of ... , which, it turns out, is probably not as scary as you think it is. So I got ... label. The end. It's actually a bit harder than that, because you have to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  for a circle of artists to sketch. Life drawing is essential to a ... planes and contours. It's fun to choose which ones to emphasize with such a ... is being scrutinized from every angle, and I try my best to approach

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  i’d expected it to be. god, it’s so hard to think about how my home is ... , and reading it made me tear up. our community being split up is ... ’m still not emotionally prepared for it.   but, again, the renovation is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  general, the GEM is better than other detectors because it is safer to use ... well-known physical principles. When a voltage is applied to the foils, a ... surface would be amplified below. It may be easier to think of the GEM as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  exciting picture of what you're doing this summer! You don't have to be in it ... . My email is up there in the banner - I'm curious to see what all of ... . You'll like it. lesson one: LEARN TO PEE, lesson two: LEARN TO POOP

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  reasonable hour. NOPE! It's 3:58 AM here in China. ---- My birthday is in ... to writer's block is to have a nice cup of tea while listening to some ... right flavor. I bake my post to perfection and let it sit for about a day

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  on Friday. What's a girl to do? So, here it is: It doesn't really ... it was 364.4 smoots + 1 ear long. Google even considers the Smoot to be ... . He is one of the few people to win a Nobel prize in the sciences

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  text. For example, it is sufficient to write "B+" rather than "B+ (Final ... The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at ... Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  reason I love working with Holly is because she's always down to try ... listen to it whenever and however you like. I listen to a lot of podcasts and radio shows, and used to run one for my college newspaper, so it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  for a couple weeks it’s time for anyone who wants to blog to let us ... Here’s what it means to us to [annotation note="bee?"]be[/annotation] an ... to help our students communicate what MIT is actually like. We do this

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  student and person she is. It occurred to me that we admissions officers ... and reputation, it is often discounted. So, at the end of each of my ... school I'd write about because I refused to apply to it, despite it being

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were ... get to redo my first year at MIT. Whether I liked it or not, whether I ... it's already beginning to have an (albeit mild) affect on my life. For

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

   alumni—each graduating class is over a thousand people—that it isn't easy to generalize ... a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... Tournament and Math Prize for Girls. It would be easy to editorialize, to imbue

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  every night to update her on what major I now am looking at (It literally ... talk about the daily routine after my work is done for the night. It was ... Cambridge that are my favorite places to walk around or visit. MIT is quite

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  saying it is bad to be influenced by those around you, in fact that’s how ... personal biases and cultural influences. It wasn’t until I took a moment to ... food but the Ethiopian side of me is so used to people begging you to eat

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  spontaneously gathering people to celebrate took walking 20 feet from my room. it ... graduating seniors, the summer is our last chance to vibe before we start our ... ...," nor can I quantify the anxiety it evokes. I did a "senior sale" to get

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  in at least some small way. He created this community and made it what it is today. His writing has entertained, informed, and inspired. And ... As Ben wrote last month, he will be leaving MIT today to take up a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008