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Blog / Personal Travel
Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.
students give presentations on their research and the chair of the admissions committee gives an overview of the program. Recruits go on San Francisco tours ... interview. Berkeley puts the 35 of us who are also interviewing at Stanford on -
Blog / Admissions
More quick answers Finaid questions, etc.
know and can announce it, we'll post it here on the blogs. -
Blog / MIT Life
Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!
valentines. More on classes, work, and your strange obsession with leaving -
Blog / MIT Life
For My Fellow Coffee Lovers Out 3 choices will soon be 4.
palatable (people seem to have strong opinions on both sides of this argument -
Blog / Admissions
The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…
Taking a break from reading today, I saw Matt's latest post and had to chuckle. In looking back a year, he references this post, in which I discuss embarking on our new viewbook project. I can't believe it's been an -
Blog / MIT Life
The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.
, but luckily I keep band-aids on hand. Yes, for the next day my finger -
Blog / Admissions
Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…
Since my earlier post on MIT's summer programs was linked from the MIT homepage today, I've been getting lots of traffic interested in summer programs. To that end, here is a further list of some terrific math -
Blog / Admissions
MITES, RSI and WTP applications due next week The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT have their application deadlines next week.
hands-on experiments and team-based projects. Please note that all three -
Blog / Events
Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update The title says it all.
other teams are still working on it! But it's so awesome to be working -
Blog / Admissions
2006 Already?!? Back to work tomorrow... wow do vacations go fast!
real holiday falls on a Sunday. So you should be able to submit stuff -
Blog / Academics & Research
Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.
Ohhhh, finals week. This year, I have the distinct pleasure to only have two finals -- but they're almost maximally temporally separated, since I had one on Friday afternoon and the other is Thursday morning -
Blog / Academics & Research
Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.
if a few electrons were to come near the foil, the charge on the ... positron based on which direction the particle turns in a magnetic field ... continued through the summer, where she mostly worked on using scanning -
Blog / About Decisions
Selection? They're selecting the earlies...
I can't believe it. It's been a whole year. An entire year. They're selecting Early Action applicants. Yes, on a Saturday. These folks are amazing. I hung around the Infinite today and caught Ben and Matt as they were -
Blog / MIT Life
The Decisive Battle The one examining "Turkey vs. Spam" on the almost-literal level.
Engineer drank on and said, "It's only gasoline." Thrilling -
Blog / Admissions
The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.
's what a stack of application folders looked like on my table yesterday -
Blog / Admissions
Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.
This evening, as I sit reviewing some of the first early action applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the blog from a posting on another site asking about admissions officer blogs -
Blog / Admissions
Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.
bearing on your application, as ~50% of our admits end up majoring in ... with: "on the same note, should we have October scores rushed to MIT ... anyone with an 800. Focus on the things that are actually used to select -
Blog / Events
PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…
expression on her face -- she obviously is a fruitarian. (I suppose -
Blog / Athletics
Dirty Little Secret? Free concerts rock my socks.
So I began this entry on Sunday night, but am just getting around to finishing it now. I'll share why. So at home, we had a little pipe burst in the bathroom that decided to spray water all over the house. While fun
