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  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  Happy holidays from the admissions office! I'll be leaving in a bit for a week of vacation (YES!) - back on January 2. I hope you all have ... it out. The requisite embarassing picture of yours truly. Marisa

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  Meet Edmund Jones, a member of the Admissions Office staff (and Sam's freshman year advisor) I ran into him yesterday in Lobby 7, snapped this ... with mother of pearl pickguard, ash body with maple neck and rosewood

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.

  

  to Yale.) And WAIT! This really is not just a rivalry of two schools, MIT is in the mix too. MIT has a long standing tradition of hacking the

  • by Bryan
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  you out of your reading chair and into an adventure, each applicant's folder is a story. When I'm "in the zone," I don't notice the monotony of

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  even told it at a Harvard party that we went to, with an audience of ... American Mathematical Society Journal, called Foolproof: A Sampling of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  ZigZag 10 A new episode of MIT's video podcast, hosted by me. And there's mariachi.

  

  Episode 10 of MIT's video podcast, ZigZag, has been released. It contains a piece about the annual Freshman Photograph, the Kendall Square Bio ... valedictorian). Anyway, "White & Nerdy" is a parody of "Ridin'" (Ridin' Dirty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  to the right, you'd see MIT and the Cambridge side of the river), and ... 's Museum of Science, which features a lightning show by the world's largest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Ervin Puskar Bosnia, Ohio, Cambridge. A video news report on Ervin Puskar '10.

  

  Bosnia. While he's proud of his scholarship, he says it's not his biggest ... link to the news video; click on the picture of the video camera]

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Am Not As Lame As I Appear I've just been feverishly at work on the new website...

  

  everything else has been on the back burner. But I got all of your blog applications (thanks!) and I have a file with all of your questions which I

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  World Cup Challenge Results The answers and winners of the World CUp Challenge of MIT international admissions.

  

  The World Cup Challenge was a lot of fun! No one got a perfect score, but on the whole, people did pretty well. Below are the results, with the name of the country in each group from which MIT received the most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  He Zigs, He Zags MIT's new video podcast.

  

  featuring stories that capture and communicate the richness and diversity of ... podcast? What kinds of stories and features would you want to see?

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  After a week of checking, double checking, and checking-to-the-nth, we are ready to mail decision letters tomorrow, and post decisions ... Office of Admissions tomorrow before we close for the weekend at 5:00pm EST

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More quick answers Finaid questions, etc.

  

  Answers to some more of the common questions... ------------------------------------- What's up with the financial aid deadline? All financial aid forms should ... , hopefully allowing you plenty of time to make a decision before May 1. The

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

  For My Fellow Coffee Lovers Out 3 choices will soon be 4.

  

  coming of Anna's. Let's face it, you can't eat burritos every day, but DD ... palatable (people seem to have strong opinions on both sides of this argument

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Same as it ever was The more things change...

  

  After struggling to figure out what to blog about today, I decided to see what it was I wrote about one year ago today: For those of you ... applications. Lots and lots of applications. It's been quite busy here in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  that its persons of the year are Bill and Melinda Gates and U2's Bono ... Executive Director of the Poverty Action Lab. Bono (above) & Banerjee

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  big screen in our floor lounge. Anyway, thanks to the apparent lack of finals in the department of urban studies and planning, she's exploring new

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  it to the front page so more people would see it. None of this makes it ... want to spend a lot of time on the boards and the blogs, but a guy can

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  Engineering) but this picture made me envious of everyone who is. The bridge is ... current 4 million tons per year to 7 million tons of goods in 2015. Some

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  drove downtown to JR Masterman, then back up to Central. Those of you who ... the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that ... NJ. The Central Jersey meeting went well that night; nothing out of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005