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  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  It’s time for more questions and answers! sailmaker asked, “How many undergraduate students at MIT actually major in subjects other than math and science?” The Registrar’s office says that 460…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blog Links If you have a blog, share the URL in this thread!

  

  I haven’t disappeared, really! Just haven’t had a ton of things to post about this week. That will change next week when I post pictures & stories from CPW. In…

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  Jane W asked, Matt, I have a question about CPW. Will we know who our hosts will be before we get there? I know you’re just matching us up at…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  The other day, Katharine wrote: Matt, I have a question/concern. It seems that many of the admitted students already have an idea of what careers they would like to pursue…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  It’s really nice in Boston today. I’ve just returned from a walk along the Charles River. Lots of people running along the river (doing a “bridge circuit”), and lots of…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  Thanks, everyone, for your feedback on the admitted students parties. We had some reports from the New York City party. Michael wrote, The NYC admitted students meeting was nothing short…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties

  

  Have any of you attended one of the Admitted Students Parties that our MIT alumni have thrown in various cities around the country (and around the world)? If so, how…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  Great front page article in today’s New York Times on the proposed Human Cancer Genome Project: The proposed Human Cancer Genome Project, as it is being called for now, would…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In Real Life Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party.…

  

  For those of you who will be attending CPW, Matt and I are in the process of putting together a “Meet The Bloggers” party. Here’s the description I just submitted…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  Lupe (who I’m looking forward to seeing at CPW!) asked, “is it pretty simple to travel on train or ? from Logan to MIT?” We’ll be running a bus from…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Spring Weekend Concert Announced: Fabolous and Lloyd Banks

  

  One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always “Spring Weekend,” and the highlight of the weekend is the annual Spring Concert, where a national musical act…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  While I was busily at work on your Campus Preview Weekend (April 7-10, register today on MyMIT!), I came across this article on the MIT Athletics page: Pistol Upends Navy…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  The results are out, and for the second consecutive year, MIT has won the William Lowell Putnam Competition, perhaps the most prestigious undergraduate mathematics competition in North America. Of the…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Bad Haiku What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create…

  

  Seems very quiet around here today. The students are all on Spring Break, and somehow it feels like the whirlwind that surrounded the mailing of decisions was ages ago (due…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  sreraman asked, “matt will u continue blogging (though not frequently) after decisions r mailed out…” Of course! Here goes, catching up on your questions… yeah asked, “anyone ever tell you…

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

  New stuff on MyMIT, and more

  

  I’m back in Boston now after two trips to Washington, DC in the past week and a half. As always, my recent trip meant missing some cool events at MIT,…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question Part 2 An extension of the previous thread, which grew quite long.

  

  Quoting Prashant from the last thread, “Number of ways to compare two applicants from a pool of 10,500 is 10500(C)2 = (10500!)/(2!*(10498!))” I don’t need to win the USAMO to…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is “Can you tell me why I didn’t get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  To those of you who received your letters printed upside-down on the MIT stationary, I cannot begin to tell you how sorry I am. That is inexcusable and all of…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I’ll try to answer the most common questions here (with help from Dean Marilee)… 1) How many people will MIT take…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005