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  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  for you to share your thoughts and feelings with a broader audience. My ... 't write this just to butter us up; also, don't fear that writing this will ... , and home state or country. There is no prize for "winning" except that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  friend Shana. I also woke up at 5 AM and watched a tape of Celebrity Duets ... years at MIT, I was always able to make time for the American Idol ... last two shows nearly started a war for control of the Conner 2 floor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  so friendly and caring that he ended up becoming my unofficial mentor ... , seeing your friends for the first time after the summer, and helping a ... in, but we went over and hung out for a while. My friend Mark made a t

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  Institute of MIT and Harvard was headed up by David Reich (also an assistant ... ] suggest that the higher salaries for chief executives can largely be ... history, compensation for executives has risen with the market

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  of time to work at the lab -- I'm scheduled for 16 hours per week this term, although I may end up working a little more or a little less ... huge vacation for me. I thought today I'd share a few class schedules

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  alarmed. Today was "Laura's going to catch up on sleep" day. I don't usually ... dinner for her roommate Adelaide a lot. (Adelaide does the dishes in return ... is the Spanish class I'm currently taking for HASS credit. Today we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  tables and are asked to solve problems too complicated for one. So, they tap their social network, divvy up the equations and trade measurements ... high fidelity business. For the next 15 years, he designed equipment and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  Well, it's pouring rain outside, and I managed to get myself up at 8:30 as usual for my 9:30 Tuesday/Thursday class, 9.15 (biochemistry and ... got to the classroom and discovered that class had been cancelled for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  dishwasher (ha!), pick up your sister, study for the SATs, fill out college ... cu. Ft.), I hope and pray that somehow, perhaps for Christmas, a ... sink, where more water ends up on your clothes and the counter than on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  Journal (MURJ) is looking for submissions (due October 10th) for our Fall ... have your work published for all to see!!! I'm on the editorial board and ... up your very own copy at the end of IAP!

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  bridges, the Ponte Celestia and the Portanuova, for a military area of Venice that would soon be opened up to the public. Her boss gave her the ... young age and for pay in Italy. This internship opportunity gave Laura

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  helping with Macgregor rush and in-house rush for my entry. Somehow I got ... grad schools to which I'm applying are setting up their online ... . Stupid illogical brain. I guess for me, like for you, there's nothing left

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  ?" It rocked. Today Sam's Mom and I went for cheesesteak at my favorite ... gave me plenty of great recipes for Apple Bake, Burton-Conner's annual ... 't sleep for days so I figured, hey, what the heck, I might as well write a

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

  Post-wedding update

  

  to catch up with many old friends, and of course to see my old roommate ... Doctor (resident), engineer for Sony Consumer Electronics, medical school ... for Exxon-Mobil, city planner, chemistry PhD student, and, oh yeah

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  's photos Rob's photos Ash's photos Eric's photos CPW is a crazy time for us ... 's just as we thought -- for example, Kiersten, who's as sweet as you ... showing up (thanks!). We made root beer floats (yum). There was much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  our hosts will be before we get there? I know you're just matching us up ... : n. MIT jargon for prospective student]. It involved many late nights ... hosted meetings with the MIT student hosts for CPW. One meeting overflowed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  ) Lex lives in a house called "Malkovich." Coming up with a name for a ... already work for Admissions, so I wasn't subjected to such an interview. I ... the office, bound for Ducksberry...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  was born and raised in India but for the past decade or so had worked as a project manager for NASA. He goes back to rural India to a village ... to get a turbine to generate electricity for the village -- can it get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  to be a blogger and coming up with this piece the day before the ... came from a particular student who started an email list for her ... ended up in my spam folder bc I guess my email decided that it doesn

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  lyrics you’re coming up with right now aren’t your best. You keep singing ... mushy-gushy song? That’s not super abnormal for you. You use love, romance ... , even if that “person” is a metaphor or completely made up. We’ll see

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020