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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  My old Baker House dormmate, Ed Miller ’00 (a.k.a. “Ed Miller, Noted Poker Authority”), will be on the Bravo reality television show “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.” Yes, tonight…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ecosystems And Web Sites A science question & general check-in.

  

  This is really, really cool. (Link stolen shamelessly from Riley.) Except tell me, you science experts – how does an ecosystem with “fantastic biodiversity” survive for five million years without…

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ZigZag Episode 6 A new video podcast.

  

  Episode 6 of MIT’s video podcast ZigZag is available today. Stories include highlights from this year’s 2.007 Robotics Competition, the “seeing machine”, and the awesome Disco Dance Floor (!). Check…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Vindicated! And the summer of FREEdom begins. (Pictures added)

  

  I’m in Boston until the end of next week for some meetings for the Committee on Academic Performance, but guess what, NO PROBLEM SETS! And thus, when you don’t have…

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Awkward Moment A little anecdote.

  

  Now I have a lot more stories where this comes from… Tuesday, I was walking down the Infinite with my advisor where SAVE (Save A Vital Earth) was promoting an…

  • by Bryan
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…

  

  What: Battle of the Bands When: Saturday of CPW (April 8th). Doors open at 7:30 PM, show starts at 8:00 PM Where: Lobdell Food Court, 2nd Floor of the Student…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

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

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Human females are the second-largest female primate, but Human males are only the third-largest male primate. “Wait… you’re Course 9, and you like Dr. Phil?” As promised,…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in ... life goal magic 8 ball really says that I want a PhD, so right now I ... about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A New Year and a New ‘Do bryan.mitblogs.com gets a little makeover.

  

  So most people start off the new year with a new hairstyle, but since I don’t have that much hair to play around with, the next best thing is to…

  • by Bryan
  • January 1, 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 attendance. Just a few miles from…

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

  Happy Sunday Everyone Go read Marilee's post... NOW.

  

  After spending the weekend away from email & the blogs trying desperately to get my kids to remember who I am, I logged in to publish an “I’m excited for…

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  school cares so much about student life and opinions that she asks students ... . Plus I got to meet Bryan in real life, and he promised he would organize

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  I’ve discussed a number of famous and notable MIT alums here, but I haven’t talked about any MIT alumni K-12 teachers. A number of my friends and acquaintances are teachers,…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  casinos from Vegas to Monte Carlo for millions... but risking his life in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  the video game series Half-Life Sean Maguire (math) and Gerald Lambeau

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote ... tendencies to record and graph random bits of information about my life. When I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Saves The Pact God bless Stu's hairy face.

  

  Just when I thought I couldn’t make it through another minute of the agony of yesterday’s events, I walked into our weekly staff meeting to discover that Stu is HAIRY!…

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  Life Aquatic, Sideways, and Finding Neverland for $3 each

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  Folks, it is a sad, sad day in the MIT Admissions Office. Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor. His face is as smooth…

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  One of IAP’s most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students and others team up to solve…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005