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  Application season

  

  With the Regular Action deadline just days away, I want to wish all the best to the regular action applicants in finishing up their application materials. Try to get it done soon so you can have a rockin' New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  spend some quality time with my family... I hope many of you are taking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  As you know, I'm a big fan of Indian Bollywood movies, and last night ... the Senior House dormitory), who snuck in just as the film began. I didn't get a chance to talk with him, but as he was leaving I heard his one

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

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  wedding ring on his desk, trying to see for how long he can get it to spin ... a much larger problem. How to travel through time! Prof. Fisher: We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts and Science grad student who works on Grassroots Mapping, and Oliver Yeh, one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  CPW is over. The May 3 reply date is quickly approaching. What to do? How can you make the best decision? If you've made up your mind for sure about whether or not to attend MIT, please let us know your decision

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  On pi day, campus was buzzing with events.  That morning, I even planned out all my pie stops: a Project Manus makerspace mentor social ... social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago this time we had a thing where the students who write for us, and also ... the ten hundred most used words. I told them they can write about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  Silva. He's painted my name at least five times since I've been here as we ... not more, important than doing the same for innovators, I wanted to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  . Today I used it to pry a Simmons window shut when the handle failed. My ... hundreds of disposable plastic utensils I'm not throwing into landfills

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  On sunny days, I like to wander through MIT's gorgeous campus. Below are some images I've collected over the course of the month. Enjoy! :) Messages in the Sky over Kresge Auditorium: The Light between Building 18

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  Cory and I paused for about an hour and a half while looking for Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke in the Hayden library stacks this ... looked through is leftmost. And there are many, many more. I am happy.

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  twerking, MIT style need more be said?

  

  . (if you don't know what twerking is, I direct you to the Oxford Online Dictionary.  Or maybe innocence is bliss?) I think the variety of dances

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 8, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  , Cross Products, Resonance, Ohms, and probably some other groups that I ... - who, if you recall, I'm a big fan of. ...and there was dancing

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  I'M SO EXCITED I'M SO EXCITED I'M SO EXCITED and you should be too ... musical was written. And by full-time, I really mean full-time. I lived with ... graduated and moved away, much to my distress), and I can testify that laws of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  So I just happened to come across two articles this week related to MIT, both involving RFID technology (for those who aren't that tech ... of explaining what he does than I can. Anyways, enjoy. Hope y'all are

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  One last bit of advice Before all hell breaks loose

  

  admitted students. Things don't always work out the way we want, but I ... , because everybody hates that guy. Also, I say this twice a year, and it

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  ! Yesterday, a student came in my office and said, "Pink! I've never ... pink) There are many, many applications to be reviewed. I know some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  In case you haven't checked your MyMIT account lately, I thought I'd mention here that the MIT Overnight Program is open for business. You can stay overnight on campus beginning on September 30th, and since we need

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2011 arrives… Orientation programs are beginning, and the campus is really starting to come alive.

  

  , hundreds of freshmen are all around campus. Today, I saw Snively '11 from ... great to see everyone. Note to '11s: Ben, Bryan and I are generally around

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2007