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  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  ) after decisions r mailed out..." Of course! Here goes, catching up on your ... from all of the Ivy League admissions offices, and I can tell you that all of these schools look at admissions somewhat differently. Above all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... the comments thread. A lot of questions while I was gone, here we go ... ?" I am! You can see the schedule for the entire MIT Office of Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  I have always loved writing. I have always enjoyed the freedom of ... narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D ... cancer research. As I have heard stories of friends, I have found a problem

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  learned where both of my parents went to college, what their degrees were ... process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  3/22 Welcome to the unfiltered stream of my consciousness. Please ... awesome things (including making this website)-- I'm so proud of them!) We ... want to see awesome pictures of the American Southwest and read about

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  ------------------------------------- Ron wrote: "hey i miss the october test for the SAT because of the ... clash of my exam and i couln't give it. in december i have my exam again ... A's to gain entry to MIT." I'm not sure of the answer to your first

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Glimpses of Haiti Just a small fraction of the things I saw while in Port-Au-Prince.

  

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Portraits of a Campus on Lockdown

  

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Year of the Dog Happy Lunar New Year!

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Evie* and the entire Office of Admissions! *Evie is the dog of Associate Director of Admissions Joanne Cummings, and is my favorite pooch in the world =)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who is the President of MIT?

  Sally A. Kornbluth is the 18th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kornbluth follows L. Rafael Reif, who led MIT for a decade and stepped down as president at the end of 2022.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  Like MIT, Cambridge also gets its share of tourists and visitors. I must say though, Cambridge actually has pretty places to take pictures of ... too many pictures of the Cambridge as an actual town in this blog. So I

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some of the topics Here are some of my classmates' CI-M paper topics

  

  Textile industry and trade Determinants of the price of vodka Access to the morning-after pill and unsafe sex December 1: Impact of Vioxx's downfall on ... growth Demand for Coke vs. Pepsi Determinants of house prices in Newton

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Moment of Truth

  

  Decisions are in the mail and ready to be viewed online. I'm really excited myself, and I've known my decision for a year and a half. =) Best of luck to everyone!

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  family attraction in the country. The MB aquarium reminded me of the New ... spent most of the ride falling victim to a nasty bout of motion sickness (fortunately, no picture of this), but Rose caught a fish. Somehow, we ended up

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  himself an actual MIT class. As usual, Prof. Sadoway (former Chair of the ... music for the five minutes before the official start of class at 11:05am. Today's music was "Seasons of Love" from RENT, one of my all-time favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  When I was in high school one of the most influential non ... "). This landmark book provides profiles of the inner work life of hundreds of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren ... talked about a play called World of Wires by MIT Associate Professor in Theater Arts, Jay Scheib. One of our FASAP advisors, Sara Brown, was the set

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  ,000! I don't like physics. A lot of people seem to think I do. I'd like to ... sorts of majors here at MIT to choose from that have nothing to do with ... cognitive sciences, I could do chemistry or biology, or any number of

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  of the only hub of activity for miles, I waited. I was crouched, poised to act, my eyes focused directly forward. Out of my periphery I could ... coordinated a flanking attack of the enemy. They fought valiantly to repel our

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  Last week was one of those weeks where I had either a test or something due every day of the week. Monday: 18.310 test corrections were due. 18.310 is Principles of Applied Mathematics, the discrete version (18

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006