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• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited ... 's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  As I wrote in a previous entry, I signed up to run the Back Bay 5K last Saturday. Results here. I very intelligently chose to walk across ... freezing. I attempt to curl up to conserve warmth (not tie Sam's shoelace

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2006 Day 1 Campus Preview Weekend has begun! [photos]

  

  : Registration began at 9am with a huge influx of people. It was great to see so many familiar faces! Mitra helps to check in one of the first students to ... brought along their pickle-powered VU meter to show off. 2x4 Jenga! The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  hope that all your hosts have had the forethought to contact you, and ... , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to ... I'm planning to attend. THURSDAY CPW Festival (9:30 PM - 10:00 PM

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  working hard to finalize plans for the ~500 events we're going to cram into ... ), please do so ASAP! CPW is my favorite time of year, as I get to meet so ... have to come here to check in and get your meal card, etc., so be sure to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  Mollie has decided that she doesn't want to write any more "this is how my interview weekend went" entries. So seeing all she has to talk about these days are said weekends she's asked me to write something about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Small Get-together Friday An informal reception for HMMT participants and others visiting Boston on Friday.

  

  (and hence won't be able to informally meet with folks otherwise or attend HMMT), I want to be able to take some time to see the MIT Class of ... me as well. For those of you in from out of town, I'll be happy to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  I am excited to let you know that things are looking fairly good for ... juncture. I'm hesitant to post this because I don't want to get your hopes up ... , and things look good, but we need a few more weeks to be sure. Due to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for running up five flights of stairs to get some Neosporin for me from one of ... waited for the bleeding to subside. Props also to the Medlinks program at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Same as it ever was The more things change...

  

  After struggling to figure out what to blog about today, I decided to ... Admissions lately. In addition to the requisite 4-5 reading days each week, we ... short: we continue to read applications. It'll be like this for another

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  decided to email the grad student behind the project, Barry Kudrowitz. From: Barry To: Bryan "that's great that students are interested in it! we are actually in the process of pitching the concept to the discovery channel

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  11,231 Applications

  

  (this number will probably change slightly by the time we get to selection ... applications this year, both record highs. It is shaping up to be an extremely ... applicants I've already seen, I am disappointed to know that we won't be able

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Birth Of Baby Nance Regular updates from labor through delivery (guest-hosted by Ben).

  

  7AM to tell me that his wife's contractions were 20 minutes apart. (Next time, Bry, just stick to the 9AM report unless they're 20 seconds ... thread to make predictions on the exact time and weight. The closest time

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Decisive Battle The one examining "Turkey vs. Spam" on the almost-literal level.

  

  witness to the ultimate showdown between Turkey and Spam. Despite a two-hour food coma immediately after dinner, I think it's pretty safe to say that I emerged victorious. I wanted to turn the turkey carcass into usable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2005
• 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'm going to see MTG's Star Wars: Musical Edition on Sunday, so I really have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  Yesterday one lucky prefrosh got to be hosted by me through the MIT overnight program. Be sure to sign up early and sign up often, to increase your chances of getting to meet me and Mitra! You could see such amazing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  There is such a thing as a free event Collegefest is going on this weekend, go get yourself some free junk!

  

  Another busy week of classes has come to end! To celebrate, I went with a few friends to the Collegefest in Hynes Convention Center (it's next to the Prudential Center.) Admission is free if you have a Student

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  excited about it. It's physics! What's not to be excited about? What's not ... tested out of physics but not calc, I wasn't eligible to take the class in ... .) The professor said he was willing to make an exception but that the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... commodius vicus of recirculation has brought me back to Turkey vs. Spam and ... the other night, I was about to go whitewater rafting in Maine with my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  I'm back to work tomorrow, hopefully posting a new Questions Omnibus tomorrow evening. While waiting to be called from the jury pool, I had plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005