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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  The fourth in a series... With a week until the May 1st postmark ... truck in front of Lobby 7; it's cheap and convenient, and really hits the ... another country, and have a kind of stereotype about such products in US. So

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in mind. 1. The third-largest city in Ireland is called "Limerick" 2 ... came up in the lightning round. Do you do quiz bowl? You should know

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  bask in the glow of getting the MIT fat packet. Once that moment is over, get back in the game because you have a big decision to make in the next ... much pain you must be in right now. You too need to allow yourself a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  in Chemical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, and Nuclear ... 'll excommunicate you from MIT, lock you in a pillory, and melt the key MIT's nuclear ... -serving social events I can conceive for the chapter in the coming year. After

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three ... Methods in Aerospace Engineering. 21W.785, Communicating in Cyberspace ... for Computer Science. 21W.785, Communicating in Cyberspace (he's in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  news... A nice article in today's New York Times science section: A ... that you were involved in? Randal Pinkett: Almost as important as what I ... live in a very rapidly evolving society, so a lot of what we learn has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For ... your responses I'm sure that if I put a piece of coal in a chair, and asked some of you to sit on it, in 2 days flat we'd have a flawless 30

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  some people who hate doing the work in groups, which is fine for them ... in the suite lounge, laughing uncontrollably at my pset. The concept ... problem was just absolutely hilarious to me at that point in time. Luckily

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  chemoattractants in a microfluidic device - 2 problem sets 2.005 - Thermal ... friends were present in this dream. Except they weren't normal. They were ... , in the world of math, while I was deriving the equations for the heat

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  blowing so hard that my new umbrella broke in 30 seconds, and then I was ... , and I got soaked from the knees down in the torrential rain. And then I ... , and so I'm sitting here in the cluster trying to figure out the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  Hey, cool, my column's in the Tech! See? My column was a response ... where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... and Interpretation of Computer Programs) test in 20 minutes and was not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... directly. Her boyfriend, Chris, just flew in to visit, so she cooked a real ... 's food was real. Mine came out of a box: This neat little all-in-one box

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

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid ... much for the rainbow smelt population in the river, but it did make for ... about 36 people go, we slept in cabins, we swam, we played Mafia, and we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  has been firmly planted in the back of my mind. But sometimes, when you ... kitchen table on a daily basis is really starting to sink in. It's not that ... years to prepare for that. But I suppose you could say that in all of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  hundred MIT students in the room was simultaneously struck with that exact ... , or characteristic. Some undergrads spent their years in high school ... television shows in the world. Still, I think it's safe to say that the typical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  So, I'm back in the office after this weekend's wedding. It was great ... -listening hotline, for the score. Nightline's greatest service is in peer counseling ... phone call. The nice Nightline staffer reported that it was 4-2 Red Sox in

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

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  from admitted students (do you have any? Leave them in the comments ... ) in Phoenix next month (more on that to come). This weekend is a four ... Fenway Park exit the stadium just in time to watch the lead runners come

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  things a little... It was one year ago. Decision letters were in the mail ... MIT in a designated space marked off w/electrical tape. Then I rigged up ... from school, I can see the SIZE of the envelope! It's still dark here in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  in reading about puzzles, feel free to skip any sections that talk ... -puzzle content in this post too. Worthwhile puzzlehunt information What is a ... overview in my last post. It’s an event that happens the weekend before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... thinking.    In the past few months, I’ve found myself thinking about this loop of thinking in almost every interaction, conversation

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025