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  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  keep intruding upon my blogging time. A big part of my next entry will answer a question I frequently receive: "So now that the class has been admitted, do you guys get to just relax until fall travel starts up again

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought I ... : ...not a single person, the entire length of the corridor. It was a bit ... people DO sleep! One of the best parts of selection is the massive amount

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  I'm working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10.302: Transport Processes homework. I have a busload to do this weekend and I ... ANTS. What is even edible in a DVD box? Do I even want to know? Mike just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  've thought I'd be doing my homework with a blogger?" Anyway. On to Woodie ... The field hockey team is doing awesome this year, (The Tech even ... , for whatever reason, I had a ton of energy when I got back, so Javier

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  to get into the Museum Of Science for free. A few weeks back, Diana ... is huge, and it's pretty much impossible to do everything in one day ... their Star Wars exhibit. Just a couple photos from the Museum that I was

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. In a ... year. Our yield was simply too high - unprecedented, as a matter of fact ... convinced that we'd have to admit at least a few from the waitlist. I was

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  've just returned from the records office downstairs, and boy do they have a lot of mail. At least a dozen buckets of mail came in this morning, on ... MIT Tracking System, though this could take upwards of a week. We make no

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

  2,822 applications

  

  So, after two entries that seemed to relax people a bit, I do need to come back with a reality check: It was reported today that we received 2 ... a target on this number). We will go into committee about a week and a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  do a little shopping, I got some good food from Trader Joe's, we walked ... really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare out the [annotation note="curse my room for having such a good view

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  A lot of very stressful things have been happening this month (and ... as we would have liked). But, there were also a lot of really good and ... was probably 70-80 percent of the whole course), it felt a lot like a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  cramming all of your things into a bunch of tiny boxes). Me driving my stuff back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my ... take much longer than it does (usually I split a storage unit with a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  hours doing so i still ended up with a result around 4000 nanoseconds ... project is to compose a movement of a string quartet, and it’s cool because on the last day of class they invite a local string quartet group to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  , or if it'll present itself in a different way. I do think one thing ... position. I have learned a lot about how to do work, how to use different ... conclusions, but I think that I do feel a little better than I did when I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  has no rules do i ever type like this? no but it has a name, poetry ... necessary, i end my sentences with a period. This is how I usually write on ... Kahneman and in it he talks about an intuitive, impulsive System 1 and a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  . He said, “yeah, I don’t do a lot but just once in a while you know ... Mall, and exchange my tickets. A man says something to me--”what?”--the second time around I think it might have been a catcall so I walk quickly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  I was done, though, I had a lot of residual energy to do ... totally a deliberate choice. How does that end up happening? If you ... achieve it, the result is the same: a couple of 24 hour periods each week

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  There are currently a little over 2,500 blogs entries on this site. I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at ... monopoles. Fortunately, the blogs also come prepackaged with a convenient way

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  "prawns" in Australia. However, the incident of a dingo eating someone ... entry was originally titled "Trimalchio in West Egg." About a month ago I ... and 75 units last semester and as a result spent April and May in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  people do, with many generations living in the same place and it becoming a ... I've been thinking about certain things a lot lately. I attribute this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  on your side. Then again, I do feel my critical reading score was a ... exclusive and do not require a student to accept, so a student *could* be ... slot on a subject I already know. What do you think? When you say "I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006