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  11,231 Applications

  

  Today’s issue of MIT’s student newspaper, The Tech, accurately reported that we have received a record high 11,231 applications this year (this number will probably change slightly by the time…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  The Tech published an article today that contains some significant factual errors. In particular this statement: “Although MIT limits the number of international applicants admitted to 10 percent of the…

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Up To Date! Tracking your application.

  

  Our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we have received. Now we’re really ready to read applications! This is a good time for you to check…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  It is currently 10:53 AM. I have been at work for three hours and fifty-three minutes, and I want to take a nap. Since that is not really an option……

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last Saturday. Saturday (sans Sam):…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Music Man is my least favorite musical ever. The only reason I even like Meredith Willson is because he wrote “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  In an engineering class with a lecture format, you get to learn a lot about physical principles and how other people have applied them. A formula is written on the…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Highlights Highlights from the Hunt complete with the first puzzle we solved!

  

  Soon I’ll be posting some photos and such from the hunt, but for now I’ll leave you with some of the funny quotes from the weekend. Also, this week, I’ll…

  • by Bryan
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Is Found! The Mystery Hunt ends after 36 hours.

  

  Sunday, 12:31 AM: The coin was found by The Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight in a refridgerator in the basement of E18. It was a great 36 hours…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  Mystery Hunt has begun! Prof. Moriarty from the Evil Institute of Technology has plans for world domination through weather control. It is our job to stop him! At 12:17pm today,…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update The title says it all.

  

  Well, Mystery Hunt is in full swing, and let me tell you, it is quite the adventure. I just took a quick trip back to my room so I could…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Live from MYSTERY HUNT Live from Mystery Hunt

  

  Now blogging live from Mystery Hunt: FRIDAY [12:17 PM] Meet in Lobby 7 to begin the hunt [12:48 PM] Now in Baker starting to solve the puzzles. If you want…

  • by Bryan
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  On Broadway My first few days of fun in NYC

  

  On Tuesday after work, I saw The Producers — not the movie, the show. Some friends from MIT, UC Berkeley, and NYU took care of waiting in line for the…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  This entry is a double cheat — I was trying to think of something to write about while cheering for tonight’s MIT mens’ basketball game, and I realized that I…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Lovable Rick Santorum, the junior US senator from Pennsylvania, is an alumnus of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity. I wonder if he ever stays at the MIT…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  I’m going to do things backwards today, and start with… Responses to comments: Daniel: Hey, the EMT class sounds cool! I had no idea how to pronounce that medical device…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt begins tomorrow A fun puzzle to solve.

  

  The annual Mystery Hunt (history here) begins tomorrow at 12:17pm in MIT’s Lobby 7. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I’d post here one of last…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Birth Of Baby Nance Regular updates from labor through delivery (guest-hosted by Ben).

  

  Hi folks, Ben here, with an update from The Nance, who called me at 7AM to tell me that his wife’s contractions were 20 minutes apart. (Next time, Bry, just…

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  Mystery Hunt is almost here! (Bryan is pretty excited about it, too)I’m almost not sure if I should mention this, but my friend Ankur ’03 is one of the contestants…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  (from the MIT campus newspaper, The Tech. This comic was published in January 2002, which was before I was here… but my sophomore year I developed the strange habit of…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006