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  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  for you, please let me know! First entry: Hello, world First Omnibus: November 3, 2004, entitled "(Q & A)^n" First Omnibus with "Omnibus" in ... blogs MIT Admissions would launch in 2004. Now, with more than a dozen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... kitchen[/annotation] until 8:50, which is around when i usually clock in for ... is remarkably unpopulated - peep the tiny city we stopped in for gas in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  Sam, who said, "There is an IKEA somewhere in Boston. It just recently ... 's blog for a whole bunch of cool projects people have worked on. In my ... 's good advice for any topic that you're interested in- after checking the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  her eating habits, she explained that it was part of an assignment for D ... - for an entire week. Recently, I discovered that a good friend from ... students have dreamed up in the Project Portfolio. For even more information

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  shower for the first time in months without having to flop around in flip ... turning off the air conditioning you found for free in your dorm's storage ... So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  , interpreted for patients, and participated in community health outreaches and ... refused to go away. I remembered that in middle school, copayments for each ... kind doctor gave me two ginger ales and chatted with me for about half an

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  final toy. It's the first project in the course designed for students to ... (MIT Model UN) invited Prof. Noam Chomsky to come and speak for us in ... restaurant that we waited in the March cold for 1.5 hours before getting in. It

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  to an apartment in New York City with two other first years for the ... This post includes an in-depth and personal discussion of the ... least, not at first. 3. the [annotation note="for clarity, in this post

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  before the spring semester started, I heard there was an opening for a ... as the Teaching Assistant (“TA,” in MIT-ese) for the 1:00-3:00 section ... an earthquake emergency simulation. In less than 10 minutes, the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  blogger applications; this week, I'm modifying the Maker Portfolio for ... old applications, which got me down to the Institute Archives, looking at old requirements for admission.  Last year I posted our essay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  sprites and an undiagnosed dark force. Right now he lives in East Campus. He ... uncommon perspective in and enthusiasm for mathematics; appropriately, she is ... was specifically about being an effective employee: applying work in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  outside to throw a Frisbee around with two non-French House friends for an ... , sent out an e-mail to the house. It made my day. The subject was ... people are feeling a little down and/or exhausted at this point in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  factors noted for suicide2. Also note in the article below: We also know ... make an attempt. This means that for every college student who dies by ... as the result of an abrupt and intense impulse, often in the context of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just for seniors) right now. My walls are an uninteresting shade of white. I ... the Media Lab, which was great for waking me up at 5am back in the fall

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  ribeye was aged in sake lees (sakekasu) for two weeks to imbue it with an ... war in Ukraine is still ongoing. Here’s an op-ed I wrote for The Tech on ... for cooking. I believed cooking to be an expression of love – to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  ] Daylight Saving Time For some reason, the shift in daylight savings threw my ... state that I have been reduced to[/caption] For people who aren't caught up with Gen Zalpha slang, or people who are reading this in the far

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  joined the rest of the MIT cycling team for training camp in Borrego ... . '14 joined me in my quest for a downhill KoM, but we got stuck behind a ... be clicked for larger versions. You can read more blog posts by and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  waitlist are anxious to hear an update. Although a few things are still settling down, we wanted to give you all an update as soon as possible ... . However, this year, we saw an unprecedented, record-breaking percentage of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  major who has been a campus leader at MIT for the past 4 years. In ... for what I wanted to study. In my junior year I applied to the MITES ... finances were thankfully not an issue. I had the full tuition paid for by MIT

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  , where I find this heart (it looks much cooler in person). Click the photo ... am very grateful for these tunnels as I travel from the T to my office ... traveling in circles. :-) Now that I'm more familiar with the tunnels, the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005