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  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  I'm kind of confused - if we want to commit to MIT, we simply bubble ... the registration desk! I promise to entertain you! 3:00pm-4:00pm Intro ... one I'd put on my "must do" list. Academics are only one part of an MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.

  

  ." -- Jane, California "I discovered a super-secret poster of the next ... from it to the 8.01 students. I got the original picture from the page

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  So about a month ago, back when I actually wrote blog entries and stuff, Ruth ‘07 spent a week in New Orleans, so we, her floormates ... used to commemorate Ruth’s return. Ruth's reaction? (I think this is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  I've been working with Daniel on advising a group of freshmen this year, and in exchange, I get to tag along on group outings. On Friday, ten of us went for dinner, dessert, and an off-Broadway show in downtown

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Day at the Beach: Quick Trips From MIT The ocean is only a short train ride or drive away!

  , there are some good beaches right in Boston or its neighboring cities. I took one of those very quick trips this past weekend when my friend and I

  • by mitblogs
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Videos and photos and more Lots of cool coverage of MIT stuff from sites, blogs, and vlogs across the web.

  

  folks across campus this past Thursday (I, of course, missed it for the 11 ... and his ASSIST project. I promise you, this is pretty cool.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  Today, two quick items I've recently seen on the web (more substantial entries to come this week): First, I saw a link on a military blog (Naval Open Source Intelligence) to a relevant MIT OpenCourseWare course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  Some random links I've been accumulating: The New York Times asks Professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT's Poverty Action Lab about ... before settling into her own blog here in about a month.  I don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  EA Blogger Application Decisions The results are in.

  

  I just want to say on behalf of the committee that we are truly impressed with all of the applications (and there are MANY). Your collective ... Blogging Year 3 is going to be unparalleled. I'll shut up now and give you

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San Francisco School of Circus Arts. After some short training on the ground ... confirmation, take 8.01: Classical Mechanics.) (I did this on my second try, but

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  anytime soon. I find this sort of depressing, but I find a lot about human

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  He Zigs, He Zags MIT's new video podcast.

  

  , sports, and the occasional hack." I hosted Episode 4, check it out! Hosting is harder than it looks! I have a newfound respect for Jon Stewart

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  hacking history comes to a close. I, for one, was quite impressed with the students behind "Howe & Ser." For the memories, I've below tallied some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  fire it at important events. Guess where the cannon is as I type this ... 2006 Brass Rat: Another view of the Brass Rat: I heard someone ask

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Updates CPW, admitted students parties, the "telethon," and financial aid.

  

  A few quick notes for the Class of 2010... The deadline for registering for Campus Preview Weekend is tomorrow (Tuesday). I really hope you ... pictures and reviews to me; I hope to post some here. Finally, if you have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  online on Saturday. I want to urge you one final time: if you have not ... . Our office phone number is 617-253-4791. With that said, I'm now leaving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 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 see what it was I wrote about one year ago today: For those of you hoping for an Admissions status update, here goes: we're reading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT Problems – EA Deadline Now 11/4 EA deadline extended to 11/4 - details inside.

  

  operating smoothly now. I'll spare you all the gory details of what happened ... servers - we're MIT and we have kickass servers - but sometimes I think the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  . ``Obviously it's not built for the road,'' he said.   I don't know if they were issued a fine, but if so, I'd be more than happy to help defray the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  There's a story from the MIT News Office today about my friend Joanne (Jo-Jo) Chang '03. I first met Jo-Jo my senior year at MIT, when I was serving as President of the Undergraduate Association, and she was serving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005