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  Busy times

  

  For those of you hoping for an Admissions status update, here goes: we’re reading applications. Lots and lots of applications. It’s been quite busy here in Admissions lately. In addition…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  Just got back from interviewing design firms. We’re embarking on a redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year from beginning to end. We’ll choose…

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  It might seem like you’ve been doing nothing but filling out forms for the past few months. First, for some students, there are early applications to fill out. Then, of…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Saves The Pact God bless Stu's hairy face.

  

  Just when I thought I couldn’t make it through another minute of the agony of yesterday’s events, I walked into our weekly staff meeting to discover that Stu is HAIRY!…

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

  More questions

  

  Today is Registration Day at MIT, and tomorrow (Tuesday) is the first day of Spring Term! I’m a little behind on the questions, so here goes… though, due to my…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  Pictured above are some robots from the 6.270 IAP competition. I’m writing an article about the tournament for the MyMIT website, so I won’t write much here. On Friday, I…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  Folks, it is a sad, sad day in the MIT Admissions Office. Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor. His face is as smooth…

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP this year (aside…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  When you think of people at MIT, maybe you think of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, or perhaps you think of President Susan Hockfield. You probably think…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  Okay, here’s that “real entry” I promised yesterday. First some pic explanations… The Beard. As you’ve probably noticed in the picture above, I’m getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin…

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

  Match Game

  

  It may have been snowing outside, but inside, it’s raining applications. Unfortunately, I missed another classic IAP event last night: the annual 6.270 Robot Competition. Modeled after MIT’s world-famous 2.70/2.007…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  Well here it is, the reason I’ve been hiding for the past couple of weeks. Hope you like the new site. It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests,…

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one, which I haven’t yet answered. It was: “It would be good if you could talk about private vs.…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  Welcome back Mitra! I spent all day yesterday reading applications at home, as I’ll do today. I really do enjoy reading your applications. When reading, I’m most likely to be…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

    January 18, 10pm MIT Intramural C League Hockey   MIT Canadian Club 5 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 0   (hey, they’re Canadian, what could we do?) Today, the…

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

  Likelihood

  

  mit_hopefulgirl asks, “I was wondering if MIT actually sends out “likely admit” letters for RD applicants before the actual deadline? I know some other top colleges do.” For those of…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Normalville

  

  Congratulations to the Random Hall dormitory team (“Physical Plant”) for winning this year’s Mystery Hunt! I really enjoyed the hunt, and our team did better than we ever had before…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt in progress

  

  The Hunt is on! I’ll be back to regular blogging, and application reading, and sleeping when it’s over…

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

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  1) I’ve almost fully recovered from the flu 2) I turned 31 – I AM OLD – spent my birthday reading apps 3) My app reads have been particularly awesome…

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  Today’s Mystery Hunt puzzles: the two puzzles in (my) Mystery Hunt history that I solved extremely rapidly. Ringside Seat, 2002 Abducted!, 2003 (this puzzle, instead of a word answer, has…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005