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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... listening to The Wrens and eating a confetti cookie from Au Bon Pain. About 2 ... hang out and relax. I originally planned on driving back that night, but

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  , Physics professor Scott Hughes, Professor of Urban Studies and History Robert Fogelson, and Foreign Languages professor Margery Resnick. It's cool ... , and more. One of the dinner tables at ZBT; in this picture, you can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  think wild and crazy kids in togas. If by togas you mean suits and ties ... have been my choice in shirt and tie combination. Basically, each ... mousse, flan, and chocolate-covered strawberries. So typically, we just

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  . The Student Loan Art Program allows MIT students (and only MIT students ... Andy Warhol Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a ... online collection (aside from these two and a few others) is only viewable

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  hour (and non-waking hour for that matter - I've been dreaming about it ... 't know what to do other than watch and hope. And I keep thinking "did this ... MIT, but to reiterate: we'll be as accommodating and flexible as possible

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  Yesterday's New York Times had another article about the new SAT, and ... their length and score. "We're very data driven here, so we're going to ... 'Arbeloff, and many more. And, you can be here too -- soon, the webcast will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  tell you that the Admit Letter is 10" x 13", and the defer and deny ... . We feel that the pressures to apply early are too high, and don't want ... admitted students who decide to enroll), have been quite large, and we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... been several things holding me back from that. The stacks and stacks ... I have responded to all of your comments and emails (this time, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  making adjustments and enhancements to the application that generates My ... current goals: #1 Videos Portlet MyMIT just partnered with MIT World, and ... hope to implement a simple portlet that will briefly explain OCW and then

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and recommendations - and in many cases I was dead-on - which means that my "calibration ... and passion for the climb. At the same time, we want each to add

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  closely. of course, that was back when i was a prefrosh and didn't know him ... , puzzles, and board games, and even later i would discover that a couple other things that cj liked, like squares and writing, were also things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  continually found new and improved methods of hosing myself and ... . Other than that moment and a few others, I would say that when I ... and find myself far more productive during those times. That being said

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  school senior from India and thereby an international candidate.I am one of ... revolves around computer science and programming.To pursue my talent I have practically done everything my school has to offer and am also the president of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  Meeting about Amazingly-small Rocks and Computers), and I get to be there ... computers, better ways to power those computers, and even new ways to save lives. And then there's me! I don't have any of those kinds of ideas, but

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  brain of your computer, each engineered and manufactured to near ... )! And don’t even get me started on other things like displays, memory, and ... everyone’s mind and today being National Nanotechnology Day, I wanted to take

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  in psychology and cognitive science is extremely prevalent and ... famous results such as the dunning-kruger effect and the stanford prisoner ... details on experiment setup and validity you’ll have to look into it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  and (2) an analysis showing how MIT students felt about Washlava based ... to the laundry room and then there were no machines available, or I had forgotten something (tide pods, dryer sheets, quarters) and had to go back to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  . True story. I'm going through and tagging all of the bloggers' entries ... back and read all of the old entries. There's some good stuff in the ... some question that's already been answered twenty zillion times. And don

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  "]was;[/annotation] people change, and people especially change over 4 years of college. What's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests ... fun exercise, I decided to go back to my freshman year bio and annotate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  , so I decided to compensate by only taking two technicals and two HASSes ... of high school, but I mostly design and sew clothes for myself. If you ... sketching, and even more watercoloring. In short, it was nothing I had hoped

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017