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  Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.

  

  Required reading (from folks who are better writers than me): Ben Jones: It's More Than A Job Marilee Jones: Sending You My Best Also ... , know that my best wishes are with you today.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  morning, I felt a faint red soreness on my uvula, which can only mean that I'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the ... component of force that my will would experience tangent to the wall during

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial Aid Tracking + Evie Pix Some quick updates.

  

  with financial aid tracking built into MyMIT. In the meantime, please feel free to contact my office by email at finaid(at)mit(dot)edu or by

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  , sorted, entered into the database, filed, and reviewed. My advice to you ... MyMIT. Remember that in the past two weeks we have been receiving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• 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 / 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 / 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 / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  labelled none of my perfectly plotted points and promptly got a 0. My mother ... this the next year when my next teacher assigned mandatory reading -- and ... dissected every day and the feeling that I was a lizard-person trying my best

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• 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 / 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 / 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 / Athletics

  I FINALLY PASSED THE SWIM TEST!!!! 3.5 years late hehe

  

  [caption id="attachment_110809" align="aligncenter" width="427"] right before battle with my cheering squad + diabolical swim cap goggles combo[/caption] [caption id="attachment_110811" align="aligncenter" width

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  actually happened in my life since September. I also feel a little bad for the negativity in my previous post, though I do stand by it, so this is ... want to be. I’ve always struggled with how I should fit Russia into my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  Lunar New Year!!! I finally made it around to making this video about my ... impressions, my day to day schedule, and things like that. I want to do at least two to three more posts going into more detail about my time abroad

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019