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• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will ... worry. We do not assign blame on why we don't have it, we just know that ... processed it, you should fill out the Conducted Interview form on the My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  then, I don't know. Also, we will begin notifying some students on the ... on the waitlist to about 500 people, and many of those people accepted a place on the waitlist. But it just isn't ethical to keep that many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there ... before putting their work to the test. Keeping their eyes on the grand ... students on the show was admitted to MIT early action, so maybe she'll be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal ... on Monday about the importance of small farms 4. Brigitte Madrian ... few weeks ago on the ways form logistics affect retirement savings Read

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  (Yeah yeah, right now it's Saturday but I wrote this on wednesday ... /finishing/making minimal progress on my 8.03 problem set when I remembered I haven't updated ... :52am. I am really quite ashamed to say I've been working on this since 8

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  The UA Committee on Orientation has come out with a report on ... . :) A lot of what is in the report is based on the data we collected ... Dormitory Council Special Committee on Housing & Orientation) Erik '09 (4

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  . ''Usually a degree in engineering means you'll eventually be working on cars ... here's just one example of a) how hands on the class is, and b) how it focuses on using technology to solve problems in developing nations. We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  .edu domain (and, I might guess, those on rpi.edu and cornell.edu). Relatedly ... on campus: The rigorous freshman physics class 8.022 (also known as ... question, which was forwarded on to me by the awesome Nick '09: Alex isn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  , startles, and really makes you think. On the train on the way back from a ... genomics research, had the following teaser on the front page: A Later Split ... economics research on the controversial topic of executive compensation

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

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some pressing questions as the talk goes on... First, some CPW answers. I know ... dorms he imagined for MIT on Vassar Street; Simmons is the second from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  Three-day weekends seem like the perfect opportunity to catch-up on ... of numbers, I found that they are very, very different. We arrived on ... partner stops you from falling two stories if you lose your grip on the wall

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic ... immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... level of education on a footing equal to my new classmates by simple

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  that you want on a 3D CAD program like Solidworks (see image below of a ... tool paths. Then, open your file on the computer connected to CNC mill or ... pictures. But, the flywheel has little mice on it, the bearing plate has bars

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  break thing. All of the dorms were like "oh we go on these awesome trips ... value of the study break a couple of weeks ago when I was working on this ... move on to the next. I took one look at the question and just burst out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  So on Sunday, I turned 20. I am now OLD. Now since I have a summer ... the festivities tonight: 6:30 meet on kresge oval for a picnic 7:00 the first secret is revealed So over the course of the day on Monday, a

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  While I was busily at work on your Campus Preview Weekend (April 7-10, register today on MyMIT!), I came across this article on the MIT Athletics ... team, Tech placed first in air and free, and sixth in standard pistol. On

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  seat Kresge Auditorium on campus. Here on my blog, there has been a lot ... science and technology. The Task Force on Student Life & Learning -- aka ... be worked on in groups; cross-department labs are very common; MIT is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... . Here, one team is working on "Drawing Conclusions I" (try it yourself at home!). Still trying to solve Drawing Conclusions I... Working on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  received a decision by Wednesday. On Friday, we'll begin giving decisions ... . The early pool this year was very strong. On the topic of the strength ... comments on this or any other blog did not have any bearing on admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  have everyone on the subcommittee agree what the right action (admit ... stack for another subcommittee to decide on. Then we take the next case ... email, or available on the phone. I'm happy to report that this year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004