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  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  'll celebrate it with my favorite pig in the world! [I promise you, the below biography is true] Peggy ("Pigasus") Peggy grew up in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and started her ascent to stardom by starring in the Abercrombie &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  joined in and made my earth-shattering waffles), and then went back to ... '07 came rushing in with a bowl of salad. "Hey, where're you going ... work stand in the way of food. And seeing as I had been sleeping, as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  I conducted my first of ten meetings this fall in Hartford this week. I think the meeting went quite well; the ~250 people in attendance ... during the Q & A section that had me flummoxed. A young man in the front

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  policy problems in depth. The problems range from economic growth in the long run to government finances in the intermediate run and economic stability in the short run. Many economic models used today are surveyed

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  masters in aero/astro. He and I are moving into Westgate, which is an MIT ... gone -- don't! I'll be living on campus. You'll probably see me in Laverde's all the time. I'll be continuing to work in my undergrad lab full

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... stunningly brilliant example of a diatonic descending 5ths progression in A ... in the Fmaj7 and Bhalf-dim7 chords. Every good theorician knows that in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  glasses, and gloves. If Anna Teytelman, a sophomore in Management Science ... her UROP in such attire, her boss would probably, no, definitely, laugh ... Assistant Professor in the Foreign Languages and Literatures (FLL) Department

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  different high-tech and economic development projects in Buenos Aires, including the MIT $50K Global Startup Workshop actor in a one-woman all ... , obviously) completed PhD in finance at Stanford, research associate at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  , wrote. Interestingly, Abrams is directing Mission: Impossible 3, in which ... in Boston. On the hallway thingy that connects the plane to the airport ... , in the local accent) Okay, anyway. I'm now at MIT! The first thing I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  , stepdad, and four siblings in Louisville, Kentucky, and will be there for ... . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  work at 6:50pm tonight and was in the mood to do something interesting, so I pulled up today's IAP calendar and realized that in 10 minutes, a director would be screening a really interesting documentary over in Building

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8 ... comeback against the Yankees, my mom scanned in an old "baseball card" of myself in a Red Sox uniform taken sometime in the late 1980s: While

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and Cognition," known around MIT as Course 6-9. In this post, I'll describe my ... departments! It was announced in the spring of 2019 and remains MIT

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  I loved living in Macgregor. Every weekday, I woke up at 6, brushed ... :30 sharp, clad in sunglasses and head-to-toe rain gear, I yelled at my teammates to start warming up. By 6:50, I would be perched in the coxswain

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  of amazing as well. First thing in the Fall, I'm trying out for both ... . There were 8 admitted students in the central Texas area, plus an admitted student from Houston who was visiting his brother in Austin who I happened

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  text in the art for accessibility (and because my handwriting is very mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot ... , but I'll try to find my peace in this sprawling city, in you.  You

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  write. I'm hoping to come back soon, but, in the meantime, please accept ... 'd paint you a walk along the river, in this nimbly crafted post; I'd tell you how I love this place, about its gentle paradise, all in prose that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange masks. I hadn't been to that park in forever, which isn’t all that surprising, given that I’ve only lived in Tucson half the year. My cousins

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  I feel like I’ve been involved in science bowl forever. In 8th grade ... can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who died 1 week ago :(']buzzing in[/annotation] as soon as they know the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  's something that I've simply convinced myself to be true, but MIT in fact does ... shifts in perspective that make a huge difference in the way you feel: Midterms really don't equate too much in the grand scheme of things. Work

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019