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  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  As many of you know, Random Hall has come to represent much more than a dorm to me -- it's a living space that houses some of my most ... will not be able to experience ever again in my undergraduate life here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel a little since I tend to talk about glass-blowing and truffle-making and there's so much more happening that I wish I could participate in

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

  went out to the deli to get turkey meat and an exciting new cheese ... enough adventure for the day. I wanted to photograph the Charles River for ... floor. The rest of B entry had gone out to Memorial Drive to watch the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we could go to our wait list this year. Every year, we always plan ... unprecedented, record-breaking percentage of admitted students choosing to enroll

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  Blogs wide game of Funny Farm. It is pretty much impossible to solve ... , largely consisting of doing nothing, making random trips to Steak 'N Shake ... right there with year-ago-me. Yay, you now know where you're going to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  applications. It's been hard to find time for much else (like blogging and email), though I've been sure to take some downtime for Heroes, Veronica Mars ... tries to remember my blogging username/password. So then, where have I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80 ... Columbus Zoo. I managed to make my annual trip to the zoo last summer, but ... withheld dinner from me until I agreed to go to the movies. Being wily and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  musical, but I assumed that when I came to MIT, music would play a much smaller role in my life. I was very wrong. When I came to MIT last August, I decided I wanted to be in an instrumental group and a vocal group. I didn

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Enjoying the Little Things In which I ramble about happiness and taking breaks

  

  because it would be far too much effort to try and embed 26 drawings into ... -changing moments (of which I've had none in the past two weeks, to my knowledge), I decided to make a vlog about the little things that make me happy. If you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  much to bear. You can relax, because today I’m taking the high road ... I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to ... with Bacon!*)? Perhaps a photo of SPAM carved to resemble some bit of

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.

  

  , are very much looking forward to CPW. In short, we're all very excited ... back from his trip to Italy) If your assigned host is back from Spring Break, expect to get a call/email from them tonight or tomorrow (you may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  . The first thing my colleague did when Mail Services called him was to ... it to the front page so more people would see it. None of this makes it ... certain folks to stop with the cheap shots, I would really appreciate it. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  . There will be much more to say about the reading process as November ... Things are starting to get quite busy! Now that the Early Action ... big stacks of folders to evaluate, still with summary cards (or "E-3

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  I'm going to have to make this quick today, since I have to study for ... 'm having to study quite a bit because I haven't learned anything about plants ... too much consequence in my graduate school application, since I already

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  Thanks to Kiersten for being my 4000th comment! Also, thanks to Jeff who, in the 3999th comment, provided a link to this interview with MIT ... prominent scholar in the country devoted to examining pastimes often deemed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 1

  

  . Tomorrow is a new day, and a new tie. I'm very much looking forward to ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   I wore a tie today, which might clue you in to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  quite busy here in Admissions lately. In addition to the requisite 4 ... -related meetings. Today was pretty much consecutive meetings from 9am until 7pm for ... entry, I'll be going home to relax tonight. Things are starting to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I'm much busier than I thought I'd be: behind on email, behind on blogging ... , with no Central Meetings to do, I'll get to catch up with some friends

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  me blog her results sometime. ;-) Anyway, I need to go get some things ... every year.) Having said that, there are of course many of you to whom we were not able to offer admission, and I am feeling equally sad about that

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each ... freshman advisee, Sha-har '09, selling baked goods to support the MIT Mock ... actually did know her, and rescinded his statement. In addition to Mock

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005