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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Engineering Hero One of the coolest professors at MIT

  

  MIT. ...This might have also been possibly one of the best lectures I ... successful when designing. Four Bar Linkage: This year's contest table for 2 ... "), numerous machines for textile manufacturing and an automatic page turner for

  • by Bryan
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . Over the past year, I've learned a lot about blogging and how to best ... for you, please let me know! First entry: Hello, world First Omnibus ... plan to enjoy a Happy Blogiversary celebratory bubble tea. Thank you for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  's something to be said for watching people do really random, stupid, amusing things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room for countless hours solving really hard puzzles on little to no sleep

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house; I happily settle for some oolong tea. As I think more about the cocoa ... hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  have What I do for fun Food eating habits Thoughts about making ... questions that you may have for me. (Note that you can comment anonymously ... Fun stories that I might have from the past four years Clubs I was

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  pretty much covers the exciting things that have happened. For Halloween/fun ... (wonderfully blogged last year by Michael) is tonight. ‘Tis the season for ... up on work/sleep/fun/etc. Personally, I seized the opportunity to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  . It's awesome. It's lots of fun. You should do it when you get here. Or ... addition, the Operator is responsible for "calling in" answers. When you ... pretty rarely, for the record—we're averaging less than one an hour). So I

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2020 blogger wrapped, wrapped

  

  , so I'm honored to be able to take up the mantle for what will be my ... [/caption]   It turns out the bloggers really like the 2000s - except for Paolo, who purportedly plays Billy Joel's Vienna on repeat a lot: [caption id

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  up for the freshmen and other hall newcomers. We have tasks to complete ... ), but also personalized lists for each participant. Some of my items ... ” writing a party invite email for a party that isn’t happening and send it

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on ... i contributed to in my urop at the center for civic media:   ... from mit. even when you're not on leave. i went to a documentary play

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  , started and finished an entire novel finally visited pika for the first ... - sunburn thing gone sailing for the first time (sailing and learning to ... river played guess-the-summer-camp with all the high school students on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  the blogs, for the office. And I'm still helping Kris out with them and ... achievements. I'm new to the position, but the role it plays in our office is ... duties for many years before then. Essentially, my job is to find some of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  interesting things - for example, spelling errors. [See also: Matt's blog entry ... big deal; we're not sticklers for that type of stuff (and hey, nobody ... most often noticed and/or most common pet peeves for our staff): The

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  like tennis, both playing and watching it. Thus, I'd guess a lot of the ... Federer and Rafael Nadal once again face off for a Major title, this one ... excellent job for the ATP." Andy Roddick also had some nice things to say: "I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  at MIT's Center for Materials Science have completed constructing a ... Engineering and Computer Science, has worked on this project for two and a half ... 's advice to people looking for UROPs is to make sure to look for UROPs that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  from the corners they’ve been sitting in for years. “Okay let’s donate ... character, and then post it on a fan page. But no, we wrote this essay for no one, but us. We did it for *art*.  In eighth grade, we had an

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  precious I’ve stripped away hobbies and for-fun activities and learned what I ... reestablish some continuity of self—to read, to go for walks, to look people in ... missing—skiing and then пельмени for dinner, forests and rivers and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  day, which was neat for me because I was actually born in Philly. My ... at Tangerine. Not cheap, but I'd been eating junk for a week so I ... meet with the guidance staff there. After a fun meeting with about 10

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  The Maslab 2007 competition (the culmination of the class for which I ... proudly sent out some photos of their robot without giving any context for ... ). The idea is not to play hero and to attack a mugger with a gun who would

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  voice-leading possible. He sat down at the piano and played through the ... . This is what he played. "Now you can never forget what a descending 5ths ... less dangerous things available for me to accidentally inhale over the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005