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  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  will be another free sneak preview in a couple weeks (just before CPW ... appropriate moment I yelled "LSC!" and got a reply from somewhere in the large ... ). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  through the back-front door and I check in to my room. It's hot and it ... classmate, "pissed off." When I do talk, it's in a monotone that's deeper than ... . I had NRed 5.12 and dropped 6.00 and gotten a B in a HASS class and a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... be turned in on that same day. If I start sounding unintelligible, it ... that "thunk" is actually a word. I hope they meant it was onomatopoetic

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  impressed/satisfied with the amount of space you get. I live in a double that ... every few weeks. In my opinion as a humble cookie-eater, I can confidently ... out in the lounge, and I thought that I would fit in well. I also knew a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  While I'm working on a longer post, I wanted to write a quick post and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It's a window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  in Texas. It had snowed before. Anyway.  The first time I walked down ... Ethiopia to the United States a few years before I was born, so their entire ... years and change as a student, minus the days I slept in and cut lecture

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  take away, and the things I wanted to leave behind. There's a world in ... did they go from a person I said hi to in the halls to someone I will ... :40-3:04): "I'll be gone \\ In a day or two... \\ In a day or two." The camera

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before ... , I don't think I have ever in my summary of a student used high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  really cool and there is a special place in my heart for CubeSats because I ... -and-coming celebrities; for example, today I met Planet Labs, a start-up in San Francisco ... rockets.If you haven't noticed, I'm a gigantic SpaceX fanboy. And you should

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct ... before dead week is pretty stressful, as every class tries to cram in that ... standards in speed, accuracy, and precision. Back in IAP 2006 we gave it a

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  actually cook, I envy you a lot). Do things you’re gonna miss in college ... decisions. Here is a list of things I came up with. (PS sorry it's all ... . Build a thing You are creative. You can do things. I know it. Does your

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  'm pretty excited about all of those places. Should be a great trip. While I ... 't get to do a Questions Omnibus before I left, but I promise to do one ... Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  puzzle before I have to go to lab meeting in 20 minutes ... ahh! Update #2 ... noise) mike: what was that? douglas: i had a meatball and it was tasty ... just been absolutely crazy and I'm just waking up from a power nap. I don

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  commuter rail. What I was saying is that..." So we set up a counter! Every ... ![/caption] Back when we all lived in East Campus, one of my housemates had a huuuuge ... . (It's also kind of cool to look at it as a chart of what times students

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  campus. I said yes. I ended up pulling an all-nighter the night before a ... place. I skipped class a lot more frequently than I did in my upperclass ... during term). I ended up with a B+ in my HASS (9.00, intro to psychology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  up. it's been a sad week. i think of what it must feel like when ... orientation meeting in a conference room somewhere. we watch a prerecorded video ... seems like i have to install or [annotation note="in the git sense

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  cannot afford the costs of the travel [...] Since I cannot make it, what should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how ... board recently; it is such a good start to answering your question that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  first time I even considered applying to MIT was in January of 2022, when I received a January MIT Newsletter and saw a summary of Ankita D. ‘23 ... .  (Ankita, I'm sorry I'm using your post from last year as a direct guide for

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  stairs, Tried a whole lot of things that I should’ve cared  Enough to ... beginning of my ~emo phase~...[/caption] “I am not cool” said a teenage girl ... ’t take a lot of pictures.   “I am not pretty. I’ve got a big heart

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in ... I delete this gene, what will happen to my parasite? There is a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015