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  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  Congratulations to Italy on their World Cup victory. The celebration was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population ... an Italian victory in World Cup soccer. It would be hard to imagine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  defect in the game: The visible numbers turned out to reveal essential ... to more practical concerns. "Once I worked out how much money I could ... own consulting company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. One day, the story

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  interesting to see what the West culturally imported from the East back in the ... Occasionally, we bloggers get together and do cool things that are ... 't until 6 AM by MIT rules. Elizabeth was kind enough to organize a trip to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and ... Baker House. [How To GAMIT 2004] Bruno - A unit of volume equal to the ... 's crew G Unit. While there are always awesome concerts in Boston, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  , at Snowbird in Salt Lake City. Disclaimer: to be fair, I took a tram up ... went from 8:30 to late in the evening, Work Week activities lasted all day -- and I still needed to train in between everything as well. For

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/15/16, at 6:28PM ET

  

  your MyMIT username and password.   In order to verify that you ... I've stopped watching this sneezing puppy long enough to ... decisions online next Thursday, 12/15/16, at Tau Time (i.e. 6:28PM ET). To

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  to stress. MIT is a difficult place - but you already knew that.  The ... 's okay.  You don't come to a school like MIT looking to coast through all ...  combination of classes, psets, UROPs, sports, and trying to maintain a healthy

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  you'll get a chance to be part of the community here. Please let me ... figured today would be a good day for me to hang up my blogging hat. I ... opportunity to help people discover the MIT that I know. Those of you who are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Updates CPW, admitted students parties, the "telethon," and financial aid.

  

  ! And, don't worry, if for whatever reason you don't get to talk to an MIT student tonight, there are plenty of other opportunities to do so. Don ... can make it! CPW registration is available from your MyMIT portal, in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  Things are starting to get quite busy! Now that the Early Action ... big stacks of folders to evaluate, still with summary cards (or "E-3 ... rather canary yellow! Okay, so this might not be so exciting to you, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  I'm spending the summer in Seattle, interning at Amazon, and I've decided I'm in love with this place. A few thoughts about Seattle after my first week here. People are in general really nice and the food, so far

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from ... too much work to do, or hilarious mistakes in my problem sets, or what ... of faces stared in suspended disbelief, munchlessly unaware of how

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  impacted you though, and following a recent trip (we'll get to that) I ... -existent because of the distinct and critical lack of things to climb. Out in West ... 's not entirely true, there was a rock gym in Houston that I'd been to a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  different. I tried to get into a fifth class and didn't (it was too ... to get to try them all. I like knowledge, and experiences, and learning ... itself? To leave space in a schedule, to work out and think, to walk places

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  left or right in response to different noises and then dissected their ... school application cycle in the Fall of 2011. I applied to 27 schools but ... GPA even in Course 9, after turning down the opportunity to "earn

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  so the cake didn't rise but it took so long to prep that I put it in ... should take a shower and I take long showers so I'll get to bed at maybe 2 ... you to have a wholesome Ash Wednesday David S. '21 is only eating the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  dorms you can choose to live in, but I wanted to get a place with my ... don't yet know in a location I don't yet know. I’ll be moving in to a ... my last fall beginnings: in the adult world, it’s up to you to choose

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  get the opportunity to do a more prolonged project where we get to ... of (in good spirit)/ talk directly to specific people from the audience ... a SaveTFP (which stands for Save This F***ing Place) event to get free

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  their laptops on a couch after a hackathon. Again, we don't get paid to ... Okay, hold up. I have a really good excuse for not blogging in ages ... those people who does course 6 in no order whatsoever. Taking course 6 in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  Wartman to learn the ins and outs of dining etiquette and table conversation ... Innovation Economy crowd in Boston: that of iRobot CEO Colin Angle to Erika ... Massachusetts (the first MIT grad to win that crown), and later competed in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010