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  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 / About Decisions

  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
• 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