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• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  Sort of. Do you remember the nursery rhyme about the London Bridge falling down? It really was sinking into the River Thames, so in 1968, the city of London put…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  This was one of those days on which I just did so much that I can’t even write about everything that happened in excruciating yet charming detail like I usually…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to demystify what admissions officers do.…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  Assume = Ass + U + Me. Assumptions, generalizations, stereotypes: they have no business in the admissions process – in either direction. First, an applicant should never assume something to…

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  Sunday, my friend Jen, ’08 – Course 14, and I went out pet shopping. We went to PetCo by the CambridgeSide Galleria. (The Galleria is the closest mall to campus;…

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  Mmm, it’s a hot one today (93oF, or 38.9oC for those of you who use a logical degree system)! Days like this make me glad for two things: 1) my…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  On Friday evening, I was lounging around being bored. There were other people on 5th East doing the same thing, so we sat under the red lights of Black Bemis…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  Two of my dear friends, Gary & Sherveen, wanted to host a BBQ this weekend, and enlisted me to help organize. My main contribution, besides insisting that we serve corn…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  First of all, friends don’t let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to check the blog server…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  During the warmer months, every Friday and Saturday, Haymarket, a farmer’s market near the Government Center T-Stop comes to life. Saturday, my friend Diana and I thought we’d take a…

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the film “Fantastic Four” (it got a “thumbs down”), and one plot point caught my eye: When Jessica…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Matt McGann ‘00 Name: Matt McGann; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Hampton Bays, NY

  

  Name: Matt McGann Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions Hometown: Hampton Bays, NY High school: Hampton Bays High School College: MIT, Class of 2000, Course 15 (Management Science) Favorite things…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sam Videos Hurry, read this entry before Sam comes back from Maine and forces me to delete…

  

  Allow me to combine Bryan’s impressive video posting initiative with Sam’s undeniable nerdiness and my own insatiable appetite to document ridiculous things my friends do. Here are two videos from…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  So, being an incoming frosh, there’s really not much I can talk about. Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in to…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  Correction from my previous entry: I’m told that you can paint your room in Burton-Connor too, as long as you clear it with the house manager and paint it back…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And here I am!

  

  Well, I’m back in the States. I thoroughly enjoyed everything but I think my soul is still roaming around the south of France. Anyone have five thousand miles of fishing…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  Just thought I’d reiterate, for anyone who’s applying to MIT this year (or next year, or in five years… whatever, I don’t discriminate), that I feel your pain on the…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  It looks like I’ve already been outdone with this entry; I must say that Bryan’s two entries on Independence Day weekend are both fantastic, and he was able to get…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  Nicole R asked, “What is the policy for supplementary material when applying? Can I send any?” Yes. We’re happy to accept extra materials if you feel there are things that…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a 5th East alum, primering the room into which I’m supposed to be moving (which was her room…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005