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  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  Today’s interesting read: Jay Mathews’ Washington Post column on merit aid (free registration required) On to the questions… FWD wrote, “I’m so confused. MIT has a beaver? But so does…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  Now that CPW is over, things are a little less hectic around the office. Mostly, we’re catching up on work, answering individual questions from admitted students (do you have any?…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  Here’s the long-awaited guest blog entry on the Cambridge-MIT Exchange (CME)! For background on the program, check out the CME website. CME is MIT’s flagship junior year abroad program, allowing…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  I’ll start off by linking to some of your photos: Anthony et al’s photos Rob’s photos Ash’s photos Eric’s photos CPW is a crazy time for us, as we finally…

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

  CPW Feedback

  

  For those of you who attended: How was it? What was your favorite part? What would you tell those who couldn’t attend?

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  Spring has sprung at MIT, with flowers in bloom across campus… The awesome folks at the East Campus dormitory built a giant hammock (!) stretching between the two parallel buildings.…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Today was dominated by the Meet The Bloggers Party – it was SO great to meet all of you! But before we get to that, the rest of the day……

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Another insane (in a good way) day! Got to MIT early; checked in with my fellow admissions peeps. Not bound to the Reg Desk today, I made the most of…

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  Last night was the CPW Festival, an evening event with different MIT student groups doing fun activities. 58% of the admitted Class of 2009 are currently at MIT for Campus…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Hi everyone! CPW is in full swing. I haven’t been this tired in a long, long time. :-) I got here a little after 8AM, worked the registration desk until…

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  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