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  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  to help clarify things a bit. Scores: We don't need to have your full ... expect to see first quarter grades. If we need them, we'll call your school ... can call our office at 617-253-3400 to see if we have them. What if we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  app (or take it to the post office for postmarking). I am pleased to see ... procrastinating! A few answers to common questions: Please remember that if ... 'd like it to. We're reading for content, and we're used to seeing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  was past the 'Sell By' date, Dad!" My dad then proceeded to explain ... fraction, to prove this point to me. All he really proved, though, was that ... going to leave this as a comment to Mitra's question, "Does anyone know if

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  For now, I'll refer you to this blog entry, but I'll be back. --- All I can really add to that blog entry is that this year, I'm reliving ... be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am ... Euclid. They are also related to Mersenne primes: every Mersenne prime corresponds to exactly one perfect number. If you're even a little bit of a math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  . Lots of reading to be done! If you are a regular action applicant, please ... time to follow up on that and make sure we have it as soon as possible ... early action deferred), and you are in an American school, please try to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  was a good time to take a quick survey of what you want to see of ... ...). I probably won't take my SLR to snap away clickclickclick during lecture because that is pretty obnoxious when a professor is trying to speak

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the ... to be somewhat controversial: Jones believes that creativity and ... time, because parents think that's what they need to get into college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  whole narrative was supposed to be a dream that the main character was having while listening to the radio, but nobody else in the class ... she taught Jonathan Safran Foer how to write, and then I realized she

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  liked the title and couldn't bring myself to change it. Actually, this ... 't wait to get back to MIT, especially considering that she took 6 classes ... to see what she's talking about--even though I live in a dorm with two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch ... -- and he gave me two books to read at the beach next week. By my count, I ... bit of a workaholic. But it was totally worth it. Why it rocks to go to

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

  Summer plans

  

  even if there's no reason for me to get up, and usually get less, but ... tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey. At Newark, I switch planes and fly to Geneva, Switzerland. From Geneva

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with ... tests, right? -- but it's kind of a disappointment. I'm hoping to bounce

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  to the computer, bring up this page and walk away. WAIT, WAIT! DON'T GO ... friend begins to talk about the party that you were not supposed to go to. Disable your IM and then walk away. Parents, Welcome to the Nance Effect

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  house in Woodstock, Georgia, a town which appears to be half farms and half subdivisions of very large houses - Gone out to eat at an expensive steakhouse (after the wedding) - Learned to play a card game called Hands &

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  ...that you get invited to have lunch with the president of MIT ... available to join her as part of the next group on Friday, November 18 at noon ... , and then walk over together to the Forbes Cafe at Stata. I do hope that

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  invite our friends over to our house to enjoy some dessert, smooth jazz, and karaoke as the night goes on. Most people dress to impress although halfway through the night, I was tempted to switch from dress shoes to flip

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

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

  

  ) to borrow for the entire academic year one of nearly 350 noted pieces ... loaned out to students -- is open to the general public. Students view the ... goes on, as we add pieces to the collection each year. Selected students

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

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  from all over come to MIT to compete to solve insane brain teasers with hopes to find a coin hidden somewhere on MIT's campus typically over the course of one weekend. Freshman year, some friends and I decided to

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this ... ), that I feel your pain on the application deal. I'm applying to graduate ... . Who would have thought I'd need to remember how to do things like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005