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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better as applications rose and they could become choosier in assembling a class--which in turn raised the quality of the whole experience on campus

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Vacation A week of total relaxation didn't stop me from thinking about MIT constantly.

  

  I am back in the office, did you miss me? :-) St. John was awesome, but not as awesome as MIT. Consider the evidence: Sigh. But a week ... MySpace Survey The Xanga Survey Look for some actual substance in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue

  

  , but in a few minutes I will watch the Germany vs. Italy semifinal match ... 've got my money on Germany. Good thing the weather conditions are better in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has a front ... and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles ... much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m not swollen anymore!

  

  Okay, so I agree that it's been far too long since my last update. I've been dealing with work issues, and have been in California for the last ... occupied for the balance of the summer. I have to say -- the weather in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 21, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to ... other person from my high school, and he was going off to live in New ... much top secret). - You can't live in your fraternity during your

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  15 with a minor in 14 [in layman's terms: a double major in Mathematics and Management, and a minor in Economics] What's next: Working as a ... Random Variables with Prof. Richard Dudley. It was a class in probability

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  myself.) Since it's really warmed up in Cambridge over the past few days, Adam and I have been ODing on ice cream -- we went to Tosci's in Central ... the summer. This is my third summer in a row in Cambridge, and I wouldn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  's pretty cool to look at a page I created and take pride in its...artistic...nature. Right. In other news, I chose a major! It's an awesome choice that doesn ... to say. And it's still in the running for actually becoming my major

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yet Another MIT 2010? Alex Doonesbury needs to choose a college.

  

  In the comic Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau, the character Alex Doonesbury is still deciding on colleges: RPI, Cornell, or MIT? Now, her ... nanofabrication start-up" in Bangalore, or "following around an influential Seattle

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  oftentimes embark on library crawls, during which I visit up to 3 libraries in ... minutes sitting, slouching, kneeling, and wiggling around in various chairs

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?

  

  playing this game in elementary school on those good ol' 3.5" floppy disks ... I will be at a formal on the 33rd floor of a building in downtown

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  among men in the 19th century. Mitra usually does not allow me to take ... run in TWO WEEKS!

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial Aid Tracking Portlet Now Available You should now see it in your MyMIT account.

  

  Just a quick note - after this morning's build, you should now see the financial aid tracking portlet in your MyMIT account. If you have ... 'm getting a bunch of comments in response to this post with financial

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A few quick answers The skinny.

  

  international applications, in parallel to the selection of domestic applicants ... selection will occur in a few weeks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day = Mail Day? Too Early To Know No official mail date yet.

  

  Hi everyone, There have been a lot of comments in the blogs that we're going to mail on Pi Day this year. This was indeed the case last year, but ... - it will indeed be in mid-March, but Mail Day depends on a variety of

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower ... ] the menu of the most expensive restaurant in New York City -- good thing ... free tickets to see the US women's soccer team play against China in NY

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

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  MyMIT. Remember that in the past two weeks we have been receiving ... is more than 40,000 application pieces to be processed in a very brief

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  started way back in 1997 as a part of a seventh grade cultural heritage ... liked cooking, and it's actually really come in handy in college, since my ... thirteen chapters of this textbook learning about in 10.302 last semester

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ack, finals!

  

  quite a lot, and I have three finals in the next two days. Blah. Oh, how I ... pictures of the new 5th East kitten on it. While I am busy in testing hell

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 19, 2005