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  Very, Very Important News That title is written to tantalize your RSS readers.

  

  that has been on my mind for the last half hour and will probably consume ... ! Okay. Back to my regularly-scheduled life...

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 6

  

  Today I got in early, giving me a chance to read my copy of the New York Times; also, Ben and I had a nice conversation about the Clay ... ), and getting ready to head off to my usual Tuesday night trivia contest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  my favorite Valentine's Day traditions at MIT is the serenade. Various ... sitting in class my freshman year, listening to a (differential equations ... from the subway to my office, I ran into the Logarhythms, MIT's all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  Today's Mystery Hunt puzzles: the two puzzles in (my) Mystery Hunt ... yesterday, because I had lost my trusty Swingline stapler, one of my crucial ... your effort in your applications! It makes my job very stimulating (but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  Before you ask where my blog title ("The McGann Factor") came from, I ... do to numbers. You could not imagine my joy when earlier this summer I realized that my nine-digit social security number is prime. I don't quite

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

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  to the new site, and my travels around the country for the office, I ... , I apologize! You've asked many questions, I'll do my best to answer ... ! ------------------------------------- Brendan wrote, "My athletics coach only sends letters of recommendation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  Italy after begging my parents into debt to pay the EF Tours fee, and then ... going to my dream destination! I have always wanted to go to [annotation ... Midwest. So for four-ish days my girlfriend and I went to visit my cousin

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  clubs, activities, groups, and opportunities. My CPW & first ... began during the pandemic from my bedroom. Interestingly enough, MIT ... figure out the things I wanted to take part in. As I mentioned, my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  In my junior year of high school, I started taking single-variable calculus at my local community college. I began to feel like a real college ... looked like. So I ate my mathematical-vegetables and went on with my life

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  Recently, my friend rejected several people who were interested in ... 's like, they were inputted into the neural network of my brain and the ... lot of time inside my own head: I always want to know why I'm choosing

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  through my open window almost every evening. [caption id="attachment_69249" align="aligncenter" width="384"] (blurry) view from my window - you can ... [/caption] Living on my own for the first time and spending most of my day on research

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  I decided this summer was the summer I’d get my life together, once ... confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and ... research. Some of it provided clarity for what I didn’t want to do—my destiny

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  One. Two weeks ago my phone's charger suddenly stopped working. I ... next few days I used my laptop for my morning alarm instead of my phone ... claimed it arrived when it, in fact, had not. I checked my mailbox, I asked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  I was browsing some of my old blog idea Google docs the other day ... four books sitting on my shelf - part one of Haruki Murakami’s new book ... out of practice with my Japanese for a while, the Japanese books get

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  much can change in that four-year gap. The summer before my senior year ... .12."]scientist[/annotation] for the rest of my life. I didn't know which schools to ... leadership experience on my resume, and I didn't want to go anywhere north of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days”. For documentation purposes, my last last day of school will begin with ... my last penultimate day did not end until 4:05 am, courtesy of some

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  , tiger (shoutout to my little sister Mikayla), spaceman, firefighter ... things that you need to know about me before I continue. I lost my birth ... devote the rest of my life to cancer research. As time went on after that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  College students have to be productive. In trying to manage all my ... . After trying dozens of them and seeing which ones most of my friends use ... search for them in my notes and instantly see every book, article, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  with not having enough time to pee, then moves to my poetry class, and ... was putting together my Freshman Spring schedule on the wonderful planner.mit.edu, I quickly noticed that my schedule would have a very low

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  . Let me be frank: If you were to look at my external transcript, you ... .13 (Organic Chemistry II). And you might conclude a few things about my ... class for me, so my attention was divided between a sort of limerence for

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012