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  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
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  I posted a version of this as a comment in the last thread, but decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it.…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Stop You're hurting the wrong people.

  

  To the person who keeps posting hurtful things to my blog and to Matt’s, pretending to be “YJ” and others, please stop. It’s one thing to mess with me or…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you who were admitted, CONGRATS. You completely deserve it and you should be very, very proud of…

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

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  A quick response to some of the questions we’ve been receiving: you won’t notice any change to your MyMIT account until we’re confident that everyone has had a chance to…

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

  The Ides of March

  

  On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel Science Talent Search (STS). As you may have read, this year’s big winner was David Bauer from…

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

  π Day

  

  Happy Pi Day! I’m in Washington DC. Seeing as yesterday (Pi Day, 3/14) was also Einstein’s birthday, and seeing as I was right next to the Albert Einstein Memorial at…

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

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  Hi folks. Hope everyone had a good weekend. Mine was good until the DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it could have…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT homepage

  

  By the way, if you haven’t been to the MIT homepage today, you should check it out!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  As many of you know, I’m an avid reader of the New York Times. Reading the Sunday paper is a favorite part of my week. During less busy times of…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  At 3:08pm today, we completed the preparation of the decision mailing, and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I missed the photo of…

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

  In The Mail Well folks, the time has come. The letters are in the mail.

  

  Well folks, the time has come. Note that the pic up top has changed to reflect the clean-shaven face, as promised (sorry mootmom, but a pact is a pact). :-)…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  Waited until midnight so I could post on the 11th officially (EST, anyway) – we’ll be mailing in less than 24 hours. Wow. For me this is a huge thing.…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  On to the questions… Arvind wrote, “‘One more favour please’, can I get a written form of that lecture by Prof. Franc Wilczec, it seems so very interesting.(I have a…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  Yesterday, I wrote, “I’ll be back in the office tomorrow, assisting with the last parts of our process before decisions are made final and mailed out on Friday!” It seems…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005