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  MIT Commencement On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on Killian…

  

  would be your projected MIT Commencement dates: MIT Class of 2009 ... don't begin until 10am. In the meantime, there's a "pre-game show." This ... of families in attendance took lots of pictures. Inside the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  ? undergoned? underleft?) over IAP, but in the meantime I’ll recap my January and ... dropped before ever attending. In Pokerbots, I worked with Jeff ‘18 and ... university to offer this topic (in case you were wondering). Anyways, I’ve got

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  -over study guides, that I asked aloud, “What is 7 times 47?” In the space of ... , procrastinatory research project that I adopted in the dwindling time before my ... three methods: *i.e., everyone likewise procrastinating in one of Random

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  men) will give their Winter Concert in Kresge. I went last year (to the ... studying in the library for 20 hours straight (with your signature "I've been ... fun before the real work kicks in? Here's some stuff going on around

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  comments, so I thought I'd help her out. Dionysian said: "Why are you guys ... hacking is exploring the hidden ins and outs of computer systems and networks. Michael said: "Hacking per se doesn't get you in trouble -- being

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  Naptha trending the front page. I've blogged a couple of times already about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of experience, learning, and motivation they can give you in the space of ten or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  Yesterday afternoon, I walked back to my suite in Burton-Conner after ... taped to my door.   OK? I opened the door, stepped into my room ... , “Wait, it gets even better!” and pointed to my bed. So I walked over and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  're Course 9, and you like Dr. Phil?" As promised, I headed over to the MIT ... thoroughly as I had hoped. For one thing, the integrals were incredibly, unbelievably, brain-screamingly difficult. I mean, it goes without saying that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• 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 / 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 / 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