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  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  removed, and it doesn't imply anything about individual decisions. Now that ... and try not to stress - there's nothing left to do but wait, and if all goes well, you'll know in 2 weeks and 53 minutes. :-) [Edit: to respond

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then ... 's Edge") and the Killian Pyramids. See if you can spot what changed ... Waldo Hacks. Now imagine, you were in lecture: And you looked up

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  was nice, and the jacket in that material was also pretty hot. But Heidi KIum said she would buy every piece in Uli's collection, and some of them ... way. And I was going to write a blog entry saying basically, "Anybody

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  Well, I'm back from Atlantic City and have 3 million things to do in ... there, watch some kids and can't do all the cool stuff... Being a ... background of some of the pictures I posted) and the waterpark are jointly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Although three members of Queen routinely sang lead and ... Freddie Mercury, recorded on four separate tracks and mixed together. München! I went to München! Or Munich. But München is more fun to say, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  had to laugh out loud when the presenter hit the button and put the live ... half a squirrel (and not the pretty half, let me tell you). ~300 people ... stuff like this. Zack and RJ (both MIT '09) have completely transformed

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  determine how many students we could take at this time, and which students to ... 'll once again look at where we are, and determine whether we will use the ... offered a spot on the waitlist to just under 400 people, and most of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  with built in Dolby Digital) and watch the latest pay-per-view selection ... immediately began watching (and Tivoing) movies. What a treat! Here were all the movies that I love and some that I always swear to rent next time I'm at

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lip Sync & Toons Real singers and fake singers ...sort of like Jessica and Ashleey Simpson. (~17 pictures)

  

  divided the lecture hall in half and told us it was time for audience participation. My half made saxaphone noises, and the right half made some pretty ... the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and is majoring in Course

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  email and phone calls. On Monday, I finally returned a call I had been meaning to get to, and found out that Ben had just answered her question ... about class rank (her school is considering doing away with it), and I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  - 6 graduate and undergraduate students. She very much hopes that you ... , and then walk over together to the Forbes Cafe at Stata. I do hope that ... stand in long lines in the Stata Center, and have lunch with students give

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  So as a sanity break, I often take a break from work and such and ... that if I went to the laundromat one day and left my laundry there, the ... to an ASA activities midway and has scored a free shirt from WMBR

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... listening to The Wrens and eating a confetti cookie from Au Bon Pain. About 2 ... hang out and relax. I originally planned on driving back that night, but

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  think wild and crazy kids in togas. If by togas you mean suits and ties ... have been my choice in shirt and tie combination. Basically, each ... mousse, flan, and chocolate-covered strawberries. So typically, we just

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  . The Student Loan Art Program allows MIT students (and only MIT students ... Andy Warhol Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a ... online collection (aside from these two and a few others) is only viewable

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  hour (and non-waking hour for that matter - I've been dreaming about it ... 't know what to do other than watch and hope. And I keep thinking "did this ... MIT, but to reiterate: we'll be as accommodating and flexible as possible

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  tell you that the Admit Letter is 10" x 13", and the defer and deny ... . We feel that the pressures to apply early are too high, and don't want ... admitted students who decide to enroll), have been quite large, and we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... been several things holding me back from that. The stacks and stacks ... I have responded to all of your comments and emails (this time, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  making adjustments and enhancements to the application that generates My ... current goals: #1 Videos Portlet MyMIT just partnered with MIT World, and ... hope to implement a simple portlet that will briefly explain OCW and then

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and recommendations - and in many cases I was dead-on - which means that my "calibration ... and passion for the climb. At the same time, we want each to add

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004