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  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  A few random notes: Thanks for all the mini-contest entries! I ... Hiro Nakamura on the NBC series Heroes, has signed on to the film 21, a ... it in all the pre-deadline craziness, but a recent entry by Melis

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  Happy holidays from the admissions office! I'll be leaving in a bit for a week of vacation (YES!) - back on January 2. I hope you all have wonderful holiday vacations, and here's to a great 2007! I'll leave you with

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Having Trouble Reaching Your EC? Some advice on getting in touch with your interviewer.

  

  sometimes takes a while to hear a response. Some of this may be attributed to ... ’t hear back within a few days, you should call him or her. If you then don’t hear back within a few days, then you should follow up with the EC office

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  from the past week, with a selection from the piece; click the link to ... said. “It helped me realize what a business we have become, the spin we ... -anxiety college admissions process. The academy discusses this in a new book, Less

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  wrong with that! But no, really, I'm not Jewish. Not even a little bit ... holding a fantastic event TODAY in our Sukkah on the Kresge Oval. We'll be ... was a mistake. Apparently having no apparent religion and a last name

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  . They haven't actually started classes yet - they have something called a ... , so we get a long time to decide our final schedules. I've been exercising this quite a bit with my switch to 5.112, adding my HASS - Disease

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Kim Affair It's been fun, guys.

  

  [ETA] THIS ARTICLE IS NOT TRUE. It's a joke created by The Tech ... the SATs (just by putting your name on it) is a 600, combined. My point is, don't take this seriously. Read it with a sense of humor. Call your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 1, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city ... to walk our bikes down a steep set of stairs, across a path underneath the bridge, and carry them up a steep set of stairs on the other side

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  announcing that it was an "Ashmont and Braintree train." Take a look at this ... now, the real stuff A common concern voiced about applying to/attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  Alfred Wallace, who sent a letter to Darwin describing a similar idea one ... Cold War built right through its center and accompanied by a 150-meter ... percent of it. So, if I were to do a full photo entry on all of Berlin, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San ... , we climb a tall ladder and stand on a tiny platform, where we get secured into a harness. First, grab the [9 pound] bar with your right hand

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Review Photos from the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair.

  

  & Engineering Fair in Indianapolis, Indiana. On Thursday, we had a reception at ... a busy city intersection; at right, the crowd at the reception. Faye ... , I went out to dinner with a dozen of the 20+ MIT 2010s at Intel ISEF

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  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 ... 't let today end without a brief comment about the waitlist. As you

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

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  hacking history comes to a close. I, for one, was quite impressed with the ... the impressive media coverage the hack received, along with a photo by ... Times article was accompanied by a comic: The latest update from my email

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  AIDS Research Center, a world-renowned biomedical research institute. He ... recipient of a Presidential Medal in 2001." I will post photographs of the poster session once I can steal them from the MIT News Office. I know for a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You Heard It Here First Short Skirt, Long Jacket

  

  Band Party Plus. Each year, they host a big concert in their dining hall where they have a bunch of bands come bring down the house at the lovely ... become the greatest band of all time (well, not quite) but they did make a

  • by Bryan
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  there enough air for everybody to breathe?" Just as I've never noticed a shortage of breathable O2, I've never experienced discrimination as a female ... . The fact that MIT is a science and engineering school, and even

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 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 ... of food we get. Here's a picture of the corner of the selection room

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

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  Tonal Forms II this term? Just a thought before I get some sleep: I made ... affection--they all feature sentiments like: Anakin: "To a most powerful ... have my allegiance." C3PO: "To a splendid counterpart!" R2D2: "You can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  For My Fellow Coffee Lovers Out 3 choices will soon be 4.

  

  The Tech announced yesterday that Anna's Taqueria will be getting a new neighbor this summer - a 24-hour Dunkin' Donuts, right in the ... coffee - yep, I think I could make that a daily event, especially in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 11, 2006