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• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  my neck for staring up the whole time, but I still managed to have fun as chunks of pumpkin splashed in my face.

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  when I am wealthy and powerful (no doubt as a result of my MIT education ... and exotic vacations, I'm just going to use my fortune to pay people to ... to the 44 people who checked out my blog yesterday even though I haven

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzle: Are we going to win? another puzzle to stimulate your mind

  

  My friend Brian, Course VI '07, came up with this puzzle. I'll give you one hint for now, use this website for help. I'll be travelling ... ? "Here is my schedule. I just can't seem to get the times right. I need a

  • by Bryan
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  So on the MyMIT Admissions site, the 2005-2006 undergraduate ... view an online version. I sent my printed-out-PDF application via snail ... a wheelbarrow full of salt, I remind myself of the wise words of My So

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

  It’s The Time To Disco

  

  soldering! My sources tell me that when Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ... . Where are my bellbottoms?

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  I do relatively well in just about all my classes. My interests are ... my case, something I REALLY like and I'm REALLY good at, at the same ... Management Science at the end of my junior junior year. How do students choose

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which means that I am highly ... to break my heart in a lot of ways. Anyway... Tonight feels like xmas

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  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