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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  THERE. Like, right out my window. For two-thirds of you, it's just going to be a half-mile walk out of your room and across the Harvard Bridge. The other third of you are actually going to live in Boston! When other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  cartoons. This week, I had the opportunity to relive some of the good ol' days of my childhood all in ways related to MIT. Exhibit A: TOMB presented by 5-WITS Childhood Reference: Legends of the Hidden Temple, Blue

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston ... ) and provide evidence of the completion of my music concentration (3 ... you know what happens when you assume, don't you? Well, I guess some of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  excessively amusing. The creator of the group asked the group members to post better photos of Pluto, and I started to look through them. One of the ... to be doing a 2.003 pset, and it really isn't a lot of fun. Adelaide

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And term starts again…

  

  couple of weeks. In the meantime, I'll entertain you with a list of my ... catalogue. 18.310 (Principles of Applied Mathematics) Study of illustrative ... . Chebyshev inequality, law of large numbers, and central limit theorem. My

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  schools may be the smartest applicants of all" http ... importance of attending the "famous schools." This one features our Dean of Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two ... jumped around and had a tour of careers: judge, astronaut, movie star ... was a set of encyclopedias. Then the internet became popular, so HA!) I

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10s in the news A series of newspaper articles about incoming MIT freshmen.

  

  've collected from across the web (via newsfeeds) about members of the Class of ... a week's worth to follow. At the conclusion of this series, I plan to answer all of the questions you've left in the comments.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  a copy of our correspondence: Do you believe what students put on the ... simply because of an internet profile? Do you think it is fair for that to happen? I have heard of other schools using information found online to

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The town of Nice was originally a Greek settlement named after Nike, the god of victory. So, according to the German work calendar, Thursday was "Fronleichnam," or the feast of Corpus Christi. Then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.

  

  Imagination, Laura The Moment of Truth And a few numbers: we received a record number of applications this year, up 9% from last year. At the same time, due to an increased yield (the percentage of admitted students who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out ... . The whole college application process is one of back-and-forth decisions ... hope you are too. Best of luck!

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Meets The OC Be sure to watch the April 6 episode!

  

  Oh, so good. Joanne witnessed the convergence of two of her loves a ... : Ben From: Monica Subject: MIT and one of your favorite shows... Hello ... received an inquiry this week that (as an occasional reader of your blog

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  " event. I probably called fifty or more people, though many of those calls ... was pretty fun, and there was a lot of free pizza and stuff to drink ... composition due in nine hours that has me adopting the identity of someone

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last ... tour of Columbus Circle a jaunt into the Time-Warner Center (where we ran ... ] the menu of the most expensive restaurant in New York City -- good thing

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  one will get hurt." (By "no one," she meant me.) For all of you who call the "Nance Effect" a home of sorts, thank you for your continued ... believe that I've only been at MIT since July of 2005 and this blog has only

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  decisions and dealing with the mail mixup. But it's been one of my better ... morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I ... of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Another post from Marilee A note from Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  "Whaaat? The letters were postmarked when?" by Marilee Jones, Dean of Admissions at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The decisions are in the mail They're on their way...

  

  The postman departs with the last of the decision letters, at 1:52pm EST.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The sky is falling! Either a huge cottonball just exploded or it's snowing.

  

  And so it begins. The first snow of the term has arrived. Kresge in the snow! Later that cold October evening, the snow turned into rain.

  • by Bryan
  • October 29, 2005