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  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 / 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