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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  (This was originally going to be one entry with the grad school admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of ... mythical. Darn, there needs to be a Snopes for MIT urban legends. One day I

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

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  largest volume of mail you've ever seen. There is a lot of mail to be opened, sorted, entered into the database, filed, and reviewed. My advice to you is to please be patient as you watch the application tracking system on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  from the international mail's speed, but due to the very poor mail system here in Kuwait. It is vital for me to receive my admissions decision ... . ------------------------------------- Merudh wrote: "I was wondering if you watch House, M.D. next to LOST

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ack, finals!

  

  Sorry for my lack of posting lately. This is just a notice to say ... appears to be broken, which makes me sad, especially since I had cute ... , feel free to leave me comments and questions to answer here. I will

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ... :07:33 -0500 From: 2006 MIT Mystery Hunt To: [email protected] Subject: 2006 MIT Mystery Hunt Hi everyone, It's almost IAP -- time to start

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  I'm not quite sure under what category to file this entry, since it ... , "Academics" it is. The MIT Outreach Initiative "seeks to disseminate ... remember, and how fast they can shift from absorbing facts and concepts to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Glass Flowers A trip to Harvard to see the glass flowers (8 pictures)

  

  ?). Early this morning, some friends and I went to the Harvard Museum of Natural History We went mainly to see the Blaschka Glass Flowers ... , everything you see here is made out of glass. Side note: Don't ever go to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing ... idea was that??) (Note: to look up the link for 5.60, I had to go to the ... than by number. I am so fried right now that it took me a full minute to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  actually get two diplomas to show off at graduation (and to hang ... two subjects (stats are here, but I happen to know they're not complete ... majors (perhaps thinking that if they make it difficult to understand, only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  . I want to see it work the way it's supposed to, so, if you're an ... intending to stay there. What value is there for me in looking at different living groups?" Well, first of all, that's not exactly fair to FSILGs, as

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  impressive) bearing my name. I frequently exploit this factoid to arouse ... to be in attendance. Emily's connection to outer space is not the result of a $54 check to the International Star Registry. Rather, Emily has

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  that charge, my friends and I were able to score free tickets to the New England Aquarium to check out Sharks 3D. There was a catch, of course. Before watching the movie, we had to listen to a lecture given by the state

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Breakfast in Paris, Lunch in Geneva, Dinner in Milan Hop on the train and check out some sights leaving France, traversing Switzerland, and entering…

  

  I set out from Paris' Gare de Lyon to continue my journey using France's famous TGV (train

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  math teacher, Mr. Bob Cohen, who had a strange fondness for referring to ... find the roots." "So, similarilarily, we have to complete the square of this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I ... me. First, I went to see "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" with Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  looked at my page, but I have no one around to help me make a new banner ... gorgeous I really am in real life. As you probably know, it's kind of hard to ... collectively as my family) have all been very busy lately. So I decided to pull a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of entries on how to visit MIT and Boston this summer. For those of you who plan to visit, please leave your questions in the comments; I will answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  lifetime is about to come true for one of America's best and brightest high ... Scholar will be the first show ever to celebrate higher education as the ultimate American prize. For the chance at a full ride to the college of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  of my favorite parts of events like this is getting to meet some ... students/projects I wanted to visit during public hours, and I sadly made it to fewer than a quarter of them. Next year, perhaps, MIT will have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be ... and also the Orientation 2005 site. Thanks to Ann's blog for drawing our attention to them. Short entry today, since I must run to a College Fair

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005