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  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  defect in the game: The visible numbers turned out to reveal essential information about the digits hidden under the latex coating. Nothing needed to ... to more practical concerns. "Once I worked out how much money I could

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  any other updates you'd like to provide (new awards, changes to your ... email, but the Admissions Committee will primarily look to the Midyear ... application, or all new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  : 1. You get to watch Spongebob and not even feel bad about it ("I was babysitting!") 2. You get to play with light-sabers and Nerf guns and not even ... get to laugh at the word "pants" and not even feel bad about it ("I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  Jennifer Lai '11 has won the Rhodes Scholarship. This brings MIT's count to ... with a support organization for HIV-positive individuals. She plans to do the M.Sc. in integrated immunology at Oxford. Two stories to share

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  ’s pretty irrational - computers are meant to be used, aren’t they. But still ... digital age that I can't take an architecture class without having to install a billion types of software. Over the last few weeks, I've had to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We ... . This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face-to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  ’m in love with IAP. The recurring theme seems to be: Things get thrown your way...and you go with it, because there’s nothing to wake up for ... , getfit@mit encourages MIT to exercise regularly, dangling a grand prize and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  any other updates you'd like to provide (new awards, changes to your ... email, but the Admissions Committee will primarily look to the Midyear ... application, or all new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  This is going to be an interesting week. For early action applicants ... approaching. For admissions officers, there are many, many decisions to be made ... well, but I was so elated just to finish. Right now: cramming chemistry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  use all of them. They're just good to have in case of an emergency. That ... -3 friend requests per week from prefrosh. To this date, I have accepted ... and potentially prompting them to not apply to MIT. The truth of the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  unsent drafts and attachments old and neglected enough to be hanging out in ... to myself 1.7 years ago during my first visit to MIT: Wednesday: I ... then went to the top floor of the tallest building in Cambridge (later

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  COMING TO MIT. So every year we have this thing called Spring Weekend (the link is to last year's site), which this year falls around Drop Date, the last day to drop classes and have them disappear from your transcript

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  Planning) and really want to pursue a minor but probably won't due to time ... leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... everyone thinks of when they hear "architecture major." We learn how to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  be great, but definitely by the end of February. You may also want to keep us up-to-date with any news in your life. This is not required nor ... , or all new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  So I live in Burton Conner, like some other people, but I happen to ... exposure to Judaism prior to MIT. Consequently, it never even occurred to me ... no bacon, which was pretty much all I needed to know to be convinced

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  don't really know how to write it. There are so many things I want to say, and yet so many of them don't attach well to words - only to strong ... to really process all of this. In a nutshell: after four incredible

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  introduction to physics@mit. This entry has been a while coming. I started ... : To say that I've been busy would be pretty false. I've been doing next to nothing. The IAP tide has crept ashore and I've been simply floating

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  't have right answers to those! Anyway, I'm only posting just now, because ... to keep track of who's working on which puzzle, where they are, how ... heads against the wall so hard their brains are going to fall out. In

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  YOU'RE A PREFROSH AND WE'RE SUPER EXCITED TO TALK TO YOU AND I WANT TO ... roll your eyes at us. In all actuality, I am really excited to call you guys, but the phones are kind of all busy right now so I have to wait a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  This message goes out especially to the juniors... seniors, spread the word to your favorite underclassmen. The three high school summer ... deadlines coming up quickly. All three are open exclusively to high school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008