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  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  advance screening of Blades of Glory by the Lecture Series Committee (LSC ... ), technologists (Steve Wozniak, Jimmy Wales) -- the kinds of cool people you ... others. The talk by Jim Ross fits into the category of speakers I never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  picture of MIT at night, looking out over West Campus. You can see the West ... large chunk of Cambridge, and part of the Charles River, with the Museum of Science off in the distance. When I first got this blog, and was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  , Ohio, which as you may or may not know is the violet capital of Ohio ... scared of flying, and Adam always tells me stories about the tolerances of ... favorite place in all of Columbus, the Columbus Zoo. I hadn't been there in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Finalists the "name bryan's fish" contest continues!

  

  And the finalists of the "Name Bryan's Fish" contest are: Mr. Chang Voltaire Groker Fabio Matsya Gelatin White Dragon Sushi Vote for your favorite by posting a comment or emailing me at [email protected].

  • by Bryan
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday ... , Koch Institute, Division of Student Life, MIT Dining. Meanwhile, the MIT Museum took advantage of the day to announce their new home at...314 Main

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  (where the sidewalk ends), I'm from Bethesda, MD (a suburb of Washington ... just got back from my second visit to the beautiful town of Punta Cana in ... spent a lot of time reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson by the pool

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  good at answering over the past couple of months. So I've decided to ... tinnnnnyyy little country in Europe. It's about double the size of Boston by area and about a tenth of the size by population. So by U.S. standards

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  ." Second, the Boston Globe had this photo and caption today: A ton of snow was delivered to the front lawn of MIT Fraternity house Chi Phi on the corner of Commonwealth Ave. and Hereford Street in the Back Bay to welcome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  about this, the tech center of the world was likely to have tons of ... found a suitable copy of the opening ceremonies. I downloaded it, watched ... distribution of copyrighted material violates MIT Policy and the MITnet Rules of

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  was a slobbery, deflated mess on the floor. For the sake of writing a ... one of the most heart-wrenching phone calls I’ve ever had, during which ... influenza. 1. Shock For the duration of the phone call, I don’t remember much

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  as Patriots' Day, which falls on the third Monday of April ... with the hubbub of CP✱, this year's iteration of CPW, and my general enjoyment of walking long distances, it seemed like the right weekend to try

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Events

  So You Want to Make a BrassRat? A very very very long year in review.

  

  in the footsteps of another blogger, Jessica Z. ‘27, and serve as the chair for the Ring Committee of the Class of 2028 with 11 other amazing ... changed to include a number of events related to the Brass Rat, such as a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 31, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my ... match of the season, instead of the spry, bright-eyed youth that I should ... summer free of academic worries had stripped me of the urgency that just

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  based on the idea of having students with the same advisor live together ... and illogical to keep a few freshmen out of the rest of the system. In ... , and so I raised enough of a fuss about it that I was one of the lucky

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... losing funny points in front of Jonathan, the constant struggle of man to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  understand? Don't you know that the view from the bottom of the Lobby Ten steps ... ? Don't you know the sky is the same here? Don't you see it? The base of ... now. I thought I would've been hardened entering the doors of Lobby

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  I realized the other day that, despite the fact that most of you are ... experience. (As some others of you may also be dimly aware, I was in the ... cheering the water polo team to a 5-2 lead at the end of the period, we left

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  my summer internship

  

   the joys of signing an NDA.

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • August 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  By now many of you have seen our new promo video on the website. And ... video to be featured right on the homepage. Its part of our overall ... videos like the one we featured of MIT’s amazing acapella group the

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Early Action: Admitted A forum.

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2015! Good job! Go ahead and introduce yourselves :)

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010