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  Why It Pays…

  

  Why it Pays to Be a Math Geek (from msn.com) Selected passages: “Surviving those advanced integral calculus lectures and organic chemistry labs meant downing gallons of coffee, but that math-…

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

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  Hello out there in TV Land. I’m Sam Maurer. You might remember me from such blogs as Mitra’s Blog. I’m sticking around MIT this summer turning turkey refuse into oil.…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It’s nice to meet you. I’m a new freshman at MIT, a member of the Class of 2009. I was admitted early action and received the news around lunchtime on…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  ABC has a new reality television show called The Scholar, which is a college admissions-themed scholarship competition. The first of six episodes aired last night. ABC describes it like this:…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Commencement On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on Killian…

  

  On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on Killian Court for the MIT Commencement ceremonies. For the curious, here would be your projected MIT…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference of the New England Association for College Admission Counseling (NEACAC), hosted by Boston’s Northeastern University.…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Guys Are Used To Getting No Sleep, But I Am Old To those of you who have siblings: what's the one piece of sibling-related parenting advice…

  

  Just when my 2-year-old finally starts sleeping through the night, we decide to go and do it all over again. What were we thinking?!? :-) I’ll be out for most…

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  In a recent post, I wrote, "Our yield was even higher than we had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class soon (though preliminarily there are…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final game of the three-game set between the archrivals Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees.…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my favorite restuarants in Chinatown: Taiwan Cafe. Taiwan Cafe is the best place in town for…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  It’s The Time To Disco

  

  If you’ve haven’t yet read about (or danced on!) the MIT East Campus First East Disco Dance Floor, then what are you waiting for? First, go to the website Then…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  Thanks to Kiersten for being my 4000th comment! Also, thanks to Jeff who, in the 3999th comment, provided a link to this interview with MIT professor Henry Jenkins on Star…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  Like many of you, I caught Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith this weekend. If you stayed through the credits, you saw the name of my old…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  I’m on my way now to my brother’s graduation in Pennsylvania. I’m not really sure how it will go, or how it will compare to MIT’s Commencement, but I’m sure…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The Admissions Staff It's my pleasure to introduce you to our current team.

  

  I’ve been trying to think of a good way to kick off the new admissions cycle (class of 2010 – woot!) and it’s finally come to me. We had our…

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

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  I had a great time last week at ISEF. This is what it looked like: 1400+ students and 1100+ projects from across the world were at ISEF. One of my…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  Yesterday’s New York Times had another article about the new SAT, and Marilee was quoted. Here are those paragraphs: The director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  I finished finals yesterday (Tuesday), so now I am pretty much done with the first half (2/4 years) of MIT. That is both an exhilirating and scary thought. Here are…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  Yes, I’m in the American Southwest… Yesterday, I had ice cream with some of the MIT Class of 2009 folks who are here for ISEF: From left to right: Nick,…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  I’m in Phoenix for the International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF). I got in yesterday, and last night I decided to take in the Arizona Diamondbacks-Washington Nationals baseball game at…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005