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• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on Protobowl, going down Wikipedia rabbit holes, and playing Sporcle quizzes. I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A Very McGann Christmas Happy holidays.

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with 40+ McGanns in ... spend some quality time with my family... I hope many of you are taking

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

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  my degree in Management Science), I can say that the department is ... undergraduate mathematics competition in North America. Of the top 5 students ... were from MIT (including a student I had dinner with on Friday!). The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  the Senior House dormitory), who snuck in just as the film began. I didn ... As you know, I'm a big fan of Indian Bollywood movies, and last night ... , the theater was packed. The last empty seat in the house went to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  pumpkin meet the ground in McDermott Court? How much time, in seconds, does ... mixed with the remains of over 100 shattered pumpkins in McDermott Court ... 54, was built on stilts in 1964 to circumvent Cambridge’s height limit

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  begin thinking and planning in advance, which I respect and value (one of ... ) I want to quote Mikey from his post announcing these prompts in the past: People often ask me, "How do I stand out in an essay?" or something

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don ... flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  take, and I agree with pretty much everything in this article, but I ... the end of the world (I remember getting a fifth week flag in 5.111 and feeling like my world was in fact ending but this is okay, I passed and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  thinking of them. In fact, I even wrote a little outline of this blog down on ... in a poor test grade. It happens. As the semester went on, I ... (Freshman Preorientation Programs), orientation, and sorority recruitment, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

   "Emergency Morale Booster Night" and the content was: - Salut la maison! I hope ... resident Queen of Party, I've been getting the feeling that some of my party people are feeling a little down and/or exhausted at this point in the

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

  While You Wait… ...why not play Brawl?

  

  . Although I've yet to see the hack for myself, as I've been working in my room ... Brawl, possibly the most anticipated game of 2008, came out today. Can I just say w00t? In commemoration of this momentous event, with a nod

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  lot like "People Are Strange" by The Doors. Hurry up, I think you only ... one... ...and although it's a bit unflattering, I still think it's ultimately better for society that they put a picture with me in it on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  love for a few square feet that I'll have to pack up in about six months ... ="105765" /] I'm not quite sure when it happened, but if I had to guess it was ... 're doubling together, I feel like we could really lock into making our room

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  people in Göd öf Wär III*, I, like everyone else in the office, have ... awesomeness is how to keep track of it all! In the past, we've given our CPW ... introducing some online options, including: iPhone/iPod App: Leading off the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  homework I'm doing right now is part of a unit called Cultura, where we ... and l'IUP in Paris. So far, we've done word associations and sentence completions, where we at MIT enter (in English) what first comes to mind when we

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  , because I forgot the mat in Connecticut a screwdriver with many many ... embroidery floss! in all sorts of [annotation note="I have a weakness for color ... I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  will come to MIT to study, I look forward to seeing many of you at CPW in ... are the global leaders in the near future. One thing that I am certain ... decisions, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a few thoughts, and to thank

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my ... helpful in our math problem set group. Later, I learned that he was the top ... 't really big in that sort of stuff. Rather than be intimidated, I took this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  in Ben's blog: ...I just want to compliment you and Matt for the ... colleague and I were in awe at how exceptionally knowledgeable you and Matt ... Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  dream that I met a girl in a dying world. In it was embedded a set of ... Part One: Getting people together. Abstract. In our investigation of ... hall, and there was a line at the door. I hope you get the idea. He

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007