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  Happy Holidays! The bloggers' holiday pic.

  

  Just a quick note to say happy holidays from all of us to all of you. We hope your vacations are fun and safe, and that your 2006 is super.…

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  I’ve been working on this one for weeks, but you guys know what the past few weeks have been like, so some of these answers are super late. Apologies. ————————————-…

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Examination Nation 9 hours to prove that I learned something this semester.

  

  3 Finals this Week Today: 2.005: Thermal Fluids Engineering Tomorrow: BE.370: Quantitative Physiology I Wednesday: 2.002: Mechanics and Materials II Before I begin to arduously study for my 1:30 final,…

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ack, finals!

  

  Sorry for my lack of posting lately. This is just a notice to say that I will probably not be posting anything of substance here until at least Wednesday or…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  “Last Night” — get it?! I took my 14.41: Public Economics final in the afternoon, so I wanted to go out after and celebrate. (I am so confused about the…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  So, if you’ve been deferred, you may be asking, “What now?” Is it all over for me? At MIT, a deferral isn’t just a “polite rejection.” Your application will once…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Admitted Students A quick update.

  

  Beginning today, admitted students can log into their MyMIT portal for new content, including a Class of 2010 guestbook directory (post your picture!). And also, feel free to use this…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I’ll start by talking about my UROP (and for those who don’t yet speak MIT, my lab job). A few months…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  A couple weeks ago, Mitra commented on her CI-M (Communications Intensive) class, 14.33. Sam has also commented on one of his as well. My turn! So this semester, I took…

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Some Notes Misc. fun stuff.

  

  Today is the first day of final exam week at MIT. [read more: schedule] 800+ students & alums came to Kresge Auditorium last night to watch Randal Pinkett PhD ’01…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  Yo, I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I really want to do them all justice, so I’m gonna answer them next week, when my…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  I know it’s been a very eventful week for you guys, waiting for decisions and dealing with the mail mixup. But it’s been one of my better weeks all term,…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  MIT alums are known for many things, but i’s not everyday that one wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most recognizable real-estate moguls in the…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Mario Institute of Technology hack Laura's entry on an awesome hack.

  

  Laura ’09 captured today’s awesome hack… check it out!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Another post from Marilee A note from Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  “Whaaat? The letters were postmarked when?” by Marilee Jones, Dean of Admissions at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  Hi everyone. I’m so exhausted so this is going to be quick, but I want to thank all of you who had my back today and who wrote in with…

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  Sometime late last night and/or early this morning I received a rather suspicious message from someone who would only identify himself/herself as “Jack Florey*,” telling me that rather interesting, picture…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  Responses to comments: Edward: Hey, thank you for answering my question…though you kinda took your time but all in all I really appreciate your answer. You play field hockey at…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Bernanke to speak at Commencement!

  

  MIT just announced that Ben Bernanke ’79 is going to be the graduation speaker for Commencement 2006. Bernanke has recently been nominated by President Bush to succeed Alan Greenspan as…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  Concerned Parent brought up an issue in Ben’s blog (about halfway down the page at this point) about increasing class size at MIT, and how this would merely require more…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005