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  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  -Called Life's Angela Chase: "People always say how you should be yourself, like ... just being myself in my life, right where I am, is like, enough." So go

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  Last night the MIT Sport Taekwondo Club sponsored a demonstration by the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I decided to head down…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  I pulled another all-nighter this weekend. The last one I pulled was for Mystery Hunt. Now let me tell you why. I woke up Friday morning getting ready for casual…

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  Let’s start this one with a picture. So, we went to see the weekly midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Loew’s in Harvard Square. That’s me…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  Hello to all of you readers! I’m the latest student admissions blogger. I’ve been following Matt’s blog for several months now, and if you’re one of his regular readers you…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  So another school year came to a close, and so begins the season of sun and fun. The class of 2005 graduated, and it was really awesome to see some…

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume that we get a several month long summer vacation like students do. But that’s not…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  Like many of you, I caught Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith this weekend. If you stayed through the credits, you saw the name of my old…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  While we are still waiting to hear from everyone, and hence it is too early to know anything about the waitlist, the Next Big Mailing (NBM) is on its way…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  've gone by "Ben" my whole life, that actually comes from my middle name - my

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  Today’s Mystery Hunt puzzles: the two puzzles in (my) Mystery Hunt history that I solved extremely rapidly. Ringside Seat, 2002 Abducted!, 2003 (this puzzle, instead of a word answer, has…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively “How…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  immersed myself in a truly diverse environment. It was a truly life ... the important people in your life. Mostly, we just hope that you see

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  Yes, several days without blogging. I’m sure you’ve been waiting with bated breath. Where have I been? Well, for the past ten minutes, I was down in the Admissions Records…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8 or 9 years old and have been ever since. After the Red Sox’ big…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  . Current music: R.E.M., "Life's Rich Pageant" (their best album... and they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  Before you ask where my blog title (“The McGann Factor”) came from, I’ll just come right out and tell you: Ben made me choose it. But I’ve grown to really…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  was the boldest decision I made in my life, but also one of the best. I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  Isaiah N. ‘26, and they told me a little bit about life as an MIT lax bro ... lacrosse, I’m also a member of Greek life, a senior chair on the Chem ... . The game was super close but we came out on top.  Day-in-the-life in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  commitment to this school? This isn't to say I'm the 10000%-always-on-the-grind-my-life ... as much as we spit out the phrase "work-life balance", I feel like [annotation note="As much as one can, considering my life is also on campus and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025