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  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  have received. Now we're really ready to read applications! This is a ... Transcript, Evaluation A, Evaluation B, Testing Requirements (we should have ... wait a while longer before having it evaluated to give you time to send

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  And It’s Over! The end of the madness

  

  Congratulations to the Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight. They found the Mystery Hunt Coin at 8:28 PM tonight. They're a great team ... be a good year.

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  the rest of your life, which for a lot of people, is perfectly ... has a bookstore, most named something like this: ~> The Cornell ... an enigma wrapped in a riddle. For one, it's housed in multiple

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  's utilized for a bunch of classes (including many for freshmen) and is generally well-liked. I mean, it's a lecture hall, it's hard to love a lecture hall, but 10-250 is very put-up-with-able. A little over a month ago an

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn ... the workload. This is evidenced by our test subject, Jon, in Exhibit A: Exhibit A Jon is the one closest to you, sitting at his computer after

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  when I was going back to MIT, I couldn't help but sigh, just a tiny ... actually said that, though, I'd be met with, at best, a raised eyebrow and an innocent query of “What's...IAP?” Or, somewhat more likely, I'd receive a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  doing well at MIT is figuring out what costs you can bear. I had a lot of class this semester. Here’s a snapshot of my registration: 69 units is ... ’t do particularly well in any of them. I ended up with a 3.9/5.0 semester

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  So where have I been? Short answer: doing work. Or just at work. I just got a UROP doing chemistry and molecular biology-related stuff in ... needed to be posted on the blogs. Expect a real post from me this weekend

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  only had a ridiculous amount of fun, but also left the City feeling ... wined and dined and stayed in a fancy hotel, the beauty of the whole event ... support your big ideas can become reality. On a side note, thanks to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will be present at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Albuquerque this…

  

  The MIT Office of Admissions will host a reception for participants ... international students at ISEF, I will be presenting a shoptalk: Admission to US ... (rescheduled from 1pm) Ruidoso Room In a session designed specifically for ISEF

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put up "no later than this Friday." Two and a half Fridays later (or ... from way back in February, which are back with a vengeance (although

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  After a ridiculously awesome weekend in New York, I’m home for Spring ... professors have created a software tool to model interplanetary supply chains ... their Blackberry devices “Melissa Mazmanian, a fourth-year MIT Sloan

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  A few updates for the Class of 2011... Tonight MIT students will be ... students now have a whole bunch of stuff on their MyMIT portal, including: Class of 2011 Guestbook. Sign in, learn about your classmates, post a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  This year, we received 12,443 applications for freshman admission, a record number for us and a 9% increase over last year. We admitted 1533 ... 499 students a place on the waiting list. Decisions (and, for admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  , is taking a little bit of adjustment. Speaking of adjustment.. This semester I applied for and joined ESG (Experimental Study Group), a freshman ... 's a pretty big shift coming from the typical freshman classes of 200

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  Hi there, blog readers! Now that we're a week into IAP, I have a ... references in the name?), a large conglomerate of students and alums of the ... , so we get a lot of random alums in far-flung locales who want to play

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Has Been Found! Mystery Hunt 2007 is quasi-over.

  

  Hunt is quasi-over. At 5:30 PM today, there will be a wrap up session ... seeing what the puzzles were like, either email me or leave me a comment

  • by Bryan
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a ... thesis advisor? Professor James Poterba. Now that he's a best

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ‘Twas the night before Christmas Happy holidays to everyone!

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with dozens of McGanns in ... traditional decorating of the tree. Just a few miles from my house is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  undergraduate science majors and more than a third of the engineering students are ... mathematics.” It seems that MIT is increasingly cited as a paragon for the ... visitors and family friends that MIT has a 50:50 gender ratio, I am always

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006