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• 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
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  Your Mystery Hunt puzzle of the day: Dead and Gone I finished up work at 6:50pm tonight and was in the mood to do something interesting, so I pulled up…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  One of IAP’s most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students and others team up to solve…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   I’ve been promising a post about international admissions for a long time, and (finally!) here…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  I was just downstairs in the records office, where the mail continues to come in heavily. I decided I’d help with the buckets and buckets of filing to be done.…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  Happy new year everyone! I’ve been out with the flu most of this week so I’m feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick just blows. Most of…

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively “How…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  Today in IAP individual events (I might go check out the Man Vehicle Lab talk/tour this afternoon…) Ben has been out of the office all week with a three-digit (in…

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

  The mail, and more

  

  Happy IAP! Today’s events (sadly, I missed the Experimental Chocolate Truffle-Making, and am currently missing the OrigaMIT Paper Folding) I’ve just returned from the records office downstairs, and boy do…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  It’s a beautiful day here in northern Virginia, where I’m celebrating New Years Eve with some of my friends from MIT. Since there’s a bunch of unanswered questions, let me…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  With the Regular Action deadline just days away, I want to wish all the best to the regular action applicants in finishing up their application materials. Try to get it…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2004
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  In my email this morning: Hello fellow Young Alums! As you may or may not have heard, the Class of 1997 is throwing a “e^2” Reunion to commemorate the 7.4-year…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. Two nights ago we did our traditional decorating of the tree. Just 2.8 miles from my house (according to…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  I’m back at my parents’ home now (watching reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), after spending a wonderful long weekend in Boston with them. On Saturday, we started at China…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  This is a long one. Apologies in advance! First, a quick response to this… I’d just like to remind folks that blogging is not in my job description, nor is…

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  As you know, I’m a big fan of Indian Bollywood movies, and last night was the premiere of Swades, the latest film from Oscar-nominated director Ashutosh Gowariker (Lagaan), starring Shahrukh…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  Hi folks – a comment I received in response to the last entry: I happen to know that girl (bus driver) and it is unbelievable the amount of impact an…

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  While the period known as “End of term” certainly brings finals anxiety, it also brings many events and traditions celebrating the conclusion of a great semester. You’ve probably already heard…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

    December 16, 10pm MIT Intramural C League Ice Hockey   Aeronautics/Astronautics 1 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 1   Alumni goal: Matt MacLeod   I came out of last…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Biological Engineering major

  

  From Wednesday’s faculty meeting… Motion for a Bachelor of Science (S.B.) in Biological Engineering Moved, that the Faculty approves the proposal of the Biological Engineering Division to offer an S.B.…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004