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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The only living boy in New York I get all the news I need from The Colbert Report.

  

  's Lohengrin. Thanks to Zach for that random fact at the suggestion of a "barbarian wedding." There's going to be a great entry about all the fun Mitra and I had in New York last weekend, but I'm not going to write it until

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... reimburse us for taking a faculty member out to dinner, since they want to encourage student-faculty interaction.) My friend Varsha '07 and I decided to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 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 read or listen to the entire story. In the New York Times: Her Mission ... here. They tried so hard to present their university as offering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  -absorbed individuals that are too busy plotting their next breakthrough to pay any attention to their undergraduate students. While I have never encountered such ... with him today and asked him what it was like to receive such a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  lucky enough to receive. You didn't mean for me to parade by myself, did ... their site. Do you have any idea what I'm supposed to look at, exactly? It always struck me as a tad odd that I should be "getting to know" a college

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Ervin Puskar Bosnia, Ohio, Cambridge. A video news report on Ervin Puskar '10.

  

  BG High Grad Gets Full Ride to MIT Amy Bingham / WBKO A former Bosnian refugee is going to the nation's number one engineering school on a ... math, and now it's paying off. He's preparing to leave for Boston on a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Recipe for Fun Learning how to cook is as easy as 1..2..3!

  

  Pepper Lemon Garlic Powder Oregano Olive Oil Instructions: Preheat oven to ... , take your plantain chips, oregano, and garlic powder and crush to your ... me of my voyage to Chowderfest this weekend, but if I told you about

  • by Bryan
  • July 2, 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 ... . Then your left hand. (It really helps to trust the person holding on to your belt.) Then lean forward. (This is where you really need to trust

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

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  remain on the waitlist.Unfortunately, I have to take back what I said in a previous entry: I am no longer able to make it to the Penn State site of the ... math people. I'll be seeing you.To answer some recent comments: Boston

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  The Class of 2010 is beginning to take shape. We know some replies ... government will sell shirts or hoodies with "MMX" or "MITMMX" on it (props to ... be using the waitlist, and, if so, how many people we'll be looking to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  invites you to the official sendoff of the Caltech cannon. Our company has ... prepared to take back their cannon. Although we're sad to see it go, we were only contracted to move the cannon here for CPW, and we respect the speed

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

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  After a week of checking, double checking, and checking-to-the-nth, we are ready to mail decision letters tomorrow, and post decisions online on Saturday. I want to urge you one final time: if you have not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection = Finished Wow.

  

  sadness - because we were not able to offer a spot to SO MANY wonderful people. This seems to be the case every year. You'd think I'd get used to ... letters and packages to be mailed. I'll keep you posted. Decisions will

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  shuttle to take me to SFO for my red-eye flight to Boston.) I'm really kind ... the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost ... at UCLA's interview weekend, I was lucky to have a faculty member tell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MITES, RSI and WTP applications due next week The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT have their application deadlines next week.

  

  open exclusively to high school juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is ... Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) is a rigorous six ... Computer Science (EECS) to introduce high school girls to EECS in the summer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 Already?!? Back to work tomorrow... wow do vacations go fast!

  

  Hi everyone, Just wanted to say hello. Having been out for a week I ... will respond to everything but it will likely take the better part of the week. (So please don't write to me 10 times asking if I've received your

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good ... process. I've made some effort to keep up with current events in Admissions ... applicants have reacted to their decisions, and what they've been saying in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Examination Nation 9 hours to prove that I learned something this semester.

  

  Materials II Before I begin to arduously study for my 1:30 final, I thought I ... morning. To: Bryan From: Matt Sung to the tune of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will ... energy; If I had, then I'd have known How much work you'd give to me! I

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  from the three separate GEM foils that are stacked to make the final ... sheet can be used to detect particles by amplifying ionization patterns by up to ten times. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  Sometimes, when things just don't go your way, it's easy to get ... 0.57 miles long, cost 500 million euros, and took six years to build and over eighty to plan. It functions as a giant bathtub, connecting two

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005