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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ‘Twas the night before Christmas Happy holidays to everyone!

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with dozens of McGanns in ... famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A Very McGann Christmas Happy holidays.

  

  always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to ... The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with 40+ McGanns in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Planned Mail Date: March 11

  

  In case you missed it: We plan to send freshman admissions decision ... -wracking it can be to wait, but please give the mail a chance! If you don't get ... being put together in parallel with everything else going on. If the mail

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  also the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in Back to the ... getting really bored. Besides, I wanted a faster way to get around campus ... skateboard. Getting the board After asking some friends in the Class of ‘25

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  thought from the beginning to the end of a chapter, in which three or four ... ’m inexplicably in love with someone I don’t know how to talk to?? What?? 2) Rooney ... relationship between Peter and Ivan, and I get that Margaret was supposed to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  decorations. It's always easy to know what to get your mom or significant other ... 3 webcams in the lab. Feel free to tune in. Live, from the Lino ... in the MIT Glass Lab this week. Since space is so tight and so tightly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  -togethers in their hometowns for students admitted to the class of 2020. These ... celebrate your acceptance after meeting alums in Orlando Be sure to check ... acceptance letters, current students are getting ready for spring break, and

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  say that Nate Silver is as close to a rock star as you can get in the ... currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the ... 'll attempt to do him justice in a few lines.  He is: a prediction wizard and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end ... plan is to post more in depth about this in the future, after I figure

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  " to "Salsa Dancing". Students in grades 9-12 can sign up for classes and ... never even considered or known to exist! If you're in high school and feel ... students everywhere can get a chance to get mindblown by the awesomeness that

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  as good as it gets. I get to oversee all aspects of student life and ... and how MIT helped (or didn’t) get them to their current level of ... not get to hear from everyone, I hope to get a broad sense of community

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  be as good.) The point is, IAP is great, you get a chance to explore ... places in Boston (EDIT: an important "at" was omitted leaving it to appear ... should read "Eaten at new restaurants in Boston" to avoid confusion) 5

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  to get a coffee and read a book in front of the Winter Palace. I don ... This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in ... this, I failed to account for the fact that I am now in the most

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something ... school preview in many ways and I wanted to find out whether I would like ... that helped me be less afraid to reach out in the first place is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  figure out which IFAFs to do due to a delay in getting the budget finalized ... Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW ... wanted to live in, that dorm being Burton-Conner. Burton-Conner has 9

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  than your high school in ways you can't even begin to imagine. A thousand ... in your first year at MIT isn't how to integrate that particularly ... complex organic chemistry reaction. It's how to ask for help. Help in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  ...well, now you have. I chose to do my concentration in Theater Arts. This will ... yoga/stretching type exercise to get us loosened up physically, and maybe an improv activity to get us loosened up mentally. Then we get to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Just 5 Days Left! Mystery Hunt begins in 5 days.

  

  Until Mystery Hunt 2006!!! Here's a little puzzle to get you ... cannibals and put to the following challenge: Each shall get one hat of either black or white (unbeknownst to them). Then, they will be asked in

  • by Bryan
  • January 8, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  Secondary School Report. We have always said that it is most important to get ... unable to write you a letter. We encourage you to try to get letters of ... , and there will be ample space in the application to explain any issues
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  -- after all, the actual words given to nouns in spoken languages are also a ... 'm doing the IB course with HL Math, Chem ang Bio. Say if I get admitted to ... -- they're different) to the courses at MIT. In my statistics class (9

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006