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  The Suite Life ~20 pictures, be careful (Updated Wed, 5/17/06)

  

  Cambridge edge (Cambredge?) of the Charles River. To the east of my dorm are some fraternities, and then Baker, former home of Matt '00. To our west are an independent living group and MacGregor, home of Mollie '06. You

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

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will host a reception at ISEF in Indianapolis.

  

  The MIT Office of Admissions will host a reception for participants ... located above the intersection of Washington and Illinois streets in ... required) to Associate Director of Admissions Matt McGann. I hope you can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  an impulse buy of some Star Wars: Episode III valentines the other day ... tonight, I noticed that none of them are really appropriate for showing true ... fly with me anytime!" Only the last one of those is even close to being

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  software Picasa, unsurprisingly affiliated with Google? At the request of ... Mitra would secretly like to erase all evidence of her existence from the ... one about people and expect nobody to ever post videos of you. Once

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of ... a pirate certificate for the completion of a certain set of PE classes ... 'll do an entry on MIT campus legends, if I can recognize enough of them

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Check Is In The Mail As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or as they…

  

  of 1300 GMT the decisions were at Boston's South Station (the main post ... those of you not familiar with the 24-hour clock, or zero-hour, that's 9 ... this year is 12% down from 14% last year. I know that many of you will

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... wrote down "computer science" on the line of my application indicating my ... computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 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 ... lot of free food (ice cream, hummus, coffee, cannolis, etc.), free stuff (water bottles, tons of t-shirts, posters, CDs, etc.), free manicures, free

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia. Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... 'm pretty excited about all of those places. Should be a great trip. While I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  , strolled down the quaint streets of Berkeley, covered my eyes through War of ... episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I woke up early this morning and was ... . Hopefully, you'll find something of value. Otherwise, that will have been

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 1

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... a selection committee meeting: it was the first day of international ... conclude selection of the international class. Relatedly, I had a great

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

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  fantastic applications, the highlight of the day (for me) was my making mango ... Castle (one of 13 Indian restaurants within a mile of MIT, according to ... . Tonight, I'm going to a screening of the Oscar-nominated short films at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  year. It's another strong applicant class. The reading of domestic (US ... action) for the MIT Class of 2009! Selection committee will continue for about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Normalville

  

  Fellowship Of The Duck Cookie Monster Dogs Playing Poker An Ax to Grind ... to start solving the puzzles...   We had a wall full of unsolved puzzles to work through.   Of course, we also solved many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read ... gather for our meeting to get us prepared to read your thousands of ... makes a good summary of an application. I just finished reading and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it ... . Because school systems vary outside of the U.S. and many international ... /principal to upload your official transcript (with three years of subject grades
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications ... comfortable evaluating your application in context. A committee of experienced ... application will be reviewed within the context of the resources available to
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  ='this review provided by the father of one of my friends. Incidentally, the phrase "one of my friends’ dads" feels very natural when spoken, but ... few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  that sort of analysis is too rigorous for this blog post, and also too ... of post for restaurants before we all got kicked out of Cambridge, but ... permanently humongous backlog of video games that I barely manage to make a dent

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day. We had bathrooms on every floor of the dorm building, and they all ... went to the bathroom on our floor, found the guy at the end of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017