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

  

  One year ago tomorrow -- August 6, 2004 -- I started the first of six blogs MIT Admissions would launch in 2004. Now, with more than a dozen ... being published, I'm enjoying some down time in Taiwan. But today I do

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

  excerpts

  

  musical i ever saw, back in 2011, and so this really would be coming back ... highest priority in life right now, I haven’t been doing near as much reflecting as I usually do), and so many things have happened in life that I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  special things that I would never get to do in America (you've already heard ... in training. In any case, I am rapidly expanding my musical knowledge ... [by Patrick '09] On Tuesday, I went to Trinity College chapel for

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  .   Everything is jarringly British in Bristol (wow what a shock). I know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song ... happy about my living situation, mostly because I'm in the same apartment

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  last checked in, I was just settling into my new life in Cambridge, MA ... bit of butter. With this in mind, I set out to find a tortilleria or in the very least, good quality tortillas in a super market. Not only did I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  to consider the factors I would need to put numbers to, in order to ... presumably the odds that I would have the same birthday as any random person is ... likely to be born in February than in other months, so given that I'm born

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  in a HS setting. How would you recommend that I display these sort of ... another major or a minor or two. You can also change majors (as I did in my ... immediately recognize it. As for emo, I'm not sure under what context it would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  parents' computer to mine-detonators in remote Third World countries. When I ... the Midwest or whatever. If I cleared one of the smaller minefields in ... with you, but at this transitional, trans-semester stage in my life, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  Breathe in. Keep breathing. The prefrosh I was hosting, or my ... couch you'll sleep in, I'm gonna head to class now. The first class I had ... leaves. I put on rain clothes and walk to the admitted student welcome in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  decisions I've made over the past few weeks across all sorts of areas in my life. In [annotation note='i don’t wanna order this by order of ... decisions and let the little things in life pass you by. how would one even

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  coming up with stories, making worlds that I wish I could live in, or ... animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes ... less than five days. I screamed in anguish with my friends on [annotation ... fact that my time with my living community would be cut short, that I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  -day weekend! Wooohooo!!! Yesterday, I decided that today would be perfect for a ... evil physics test on Thursday!" "I am locking myself in my room and never ... SOMETHING today. So I made a nice schedule: I would wake up at 9:30ish, watch

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next ... (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  Well, there’s certainly truth to that. I arrived in China almost two ... , touring, eating lots. There in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan Province, I ... kindergarten! I tried to go in, but got kicked out after 2 seconds. Qin

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  alarm had gone off, I'm not sure I would have responded to it.) I ... sleeping bag into the little bag I had carried it in. Each precious second it ... Uber would be arriving there and that I was on my way. Ask your host

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  would go anywhere[/annotation]. As I mentioned in my jobs post: I am ... myself two weeks in the past that everything would be okay. I'm glad it all ... . That being said, this is definitely the semester in which I think I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  Saying that I was excited to go to college would be like saying that ... manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my ... yearbook. While I'm sure any of them would have been happy to talk to me, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who ... : My Mom mom and I in Shanghai! Yesterday was Mother’s Day, so I thought ... I from preschool all the way through AP Physics C in high school

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  education. But in truth, I can talk to anyone. Well, mostly. Some people want to purely engage in small talk– and that’s okay! If I introduce myself ... second spiel about how I’m majoring in math and really interested in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022