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  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  preparation for the meeting, we were all assigned the same three applications to ... is completely true: we are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers. As we say in our "Preparing For MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  anything Nobel Prize worthy, so I don't really qualify for other scholarships, but I could definitely go for a blogging scholarship." Unfortunately, I ... probably for the better because Jess won $1,000 and probably would have

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  Update for Admitted students: We've been hearing reports that a few ... for Campus Preview Weekend via your MyMIT account by March 31st. If ... them to call as soon as possible. There's more information for parents

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  international students.   This year, we received 3493 applications for ... to regular action for further consideration. I am often asked why MIT's admit rate for early action is so low in comparison to the admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  Tonight was the kickoff event for the Class of 2007 Senior Gift ... as the theme for the Class of 2000 through the Class of 2005: The ... 't bad, though (thanks for thinking of it, Class of 2006). For those of you

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

  Scholarships

  

  for the past few months. First, for some students, there are early ... complete. And finally, there's the scrambling to apply for scholarships. Scholarships are nice. They provide you money for college (offsetting your Self

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  waiting in line for some iced tea this morning the two architecture students ... called transparent concrete. It's really only semi-transparent (for now ... findings, creep could be reduced to the point where concrete could last for

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2012 Profile Posted 49 states... what's missing? And what are the most popular names?

  

  Class Profile page for this year's incoming class, the MIT Class of 2012. Check it out! (If you were looking for the Admissions Statistics, just hold on for a little while longer...) Incoming Freshman Class Profile

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  've missed you! After CPW, I was sick for nearly two weeks, and I got better just in time for a crazy week in the office. Now, I'm off on group travel ... the meetings, and the schedule for upcoming meetings in California, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  , and Sam is awesomely posting this for me. My group has been here for just under a day, and we are staying in a guesthouse near the capital for ... butter), and go to the market to buy fabric for skirts/sarongs. I have not

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record ... libraries to understand cancer and disease, studied addiction, made plans for a new graduate dorm, pioneered a center for synthetic biology

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Small Get-together Friday An informal reception for HMMT participants and others visiting Boston on Friday.

  

  'll have a small reception for any students visiting MIT. The reception will ... that there will be many students around tomorrow for several reasons ... visiting MIT on what is a vacation week for some students across the country

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for running up five flights of stairs to get some Neosporin for me from one of ... waited for the bleeding to subside. Props also to the Medlinks program at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Same as it ever was The more things change...

  

  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 ... much consecutive meetings from 9am until 7pm for me. This morning was a

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

  2006 Already?!? Back to work tomorrow... wow do vacations go fast!

  

  Hi everyone, Just wanted to say hello. Having been out for a week I ... . It's working fine for me today, so hopefully that issue has been ... today as if it were still 1/1 - and no, you won't be penalized for being a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  , and I figure if it's appropriate for him to wear it, it's okay for me to ... Forest Hills. (For you subway people, we took the Red line to Downtown ... made the trip to cheer for our friends on the MIT Cross Country teams

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  ... Got to MIT early, worked the help desk for a couple of hours. Headed ... these blogs!). Back to the help desk for most of the afternoon. At 5PM, I ... LaVerde's to buy supplies for the MTB party (see pic below). $60 of ice

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  committee for domestic applicants (including students deferred from early action) for the MIT Class of 2009! Selection committee will continue for ... . Today, I'm wearing a tie, which is my custom for days on which the

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

  Busy times

  

  For those of you hoping for an Admissions status update, here goes ... -related meetings. Today was pretty much consecutive meetings from 9am until 7pm for ... 's latest post, followed by some planning for Campus Preview Weekend, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  "? Meet Dr. Radia Perlman '73, SM '76, PhD '88, Distinguished Engineer for ... earlier this year. (And, for the record, I think in the picture at right she ... Barlas Radia Perlman had a solution for an information routing problem

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006