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  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  definetly worth flying down here from Tallahassee. ( I was the girl with the ... accept supplemental material with the freshman application? Like, say I ... ...could I send that in along with my teacher and guidance counselor recs? Or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  of me with bad hair. Hee. And yes, sum1, MIT does have a marching band ... picture of the cheerleading squad, with my poms together right above my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  interesting. :-) In a nutshell, I'd had trouble getting in touch with the ... rockin' (usually we have to bring that stuff with us). They had a free

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  in it with me, which is nice since it means I'll always have someone to study with. I've had some interest in genetics since I was a kid. The one

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  week, where you can go an get one-on-one instruction with either your TAs ... about. It might be the only choir on Earth with a director who invokes "PV

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  the lanes with the gas pumps on the right had much shorter lines than ... witness a dramatic transformation. I loved our room to begin with, since it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  QWERTY keyboard was created with two goals in mind: a) minimize the number ... studies with improved layouts, such as the Dvorak keyboard, showed that the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  official statement about what we require: SAT I [] or the ACT [with Writing ... calling with questions. In an effort to answer these questions, here is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  I am super-psyched about. My quandary currently is with my fifth ... Senses). I took a class with the professor last term, and I really liked

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  is a spaghetti covered with chili, onions, and shredded cheese. Twas ... . My less than 24 hour visit home was filled with visiting family that

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  --down-to-earth and yet on the cutting-edge with a hint of a retro sensibility. Favorite ... antiques, books, and CDs. Cambridge is a hip, progressive city with the feel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  risks + be truthful + be fearless + you are awesome! be yourself And with ... something that matters to you. Also, you can share with us something special

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  A few entries back, I was asked by amino21 how I got hooked up with my internship at the National Institutes of Health the summer after ... summer was great; I lived with my (and Mitra's) friend Rose '05 in Francis

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  Every journal has to start off with some sort of introduction. I've been keeping journals since I was 9 (I've always liked keeping ... ) through a maze, and the other of which is concerned with examining protein

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  of going with a wax model. Steve Asles, his stand-in, attended and ... with MIT references in anime. This view is modeled after the setup of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 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 ... beautiful equations." With so much left to understand, Wilczek looks forward

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

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  hole particle jets over the course of a year with NASA's Chandra X ... detail how these jets change with time and distance from the black hole

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  Things are actually pretty calm here in New England, even with the ... (18.01) with an AP test, so I could take multivariable calculus (18 ... ,000 applicants to 1600 or so admitted students. We take our time with this process

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

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  - that I'll get faster with experience. I wish Matt would offer a seminar ... at - the little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  ), which I'm currently reading. So, I sit here on Amtrak with the book, and I ... with her guidance counselor. Her parents and peers, often without knowing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004