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• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  We frequently get requests to blog about transfer admissions, and now ... any to do so. The numbers for this year look remarkably like they did ... lot of great students we weren't able to admit. It's true that MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  here: To celebrate the movie release, I am declaring this weekend to be ... take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me ... people pictured (I'll only publish first names), and any reactions to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  every year.) Having said that, there are of course many of you to whom we were not able to offer admission, and I am feeling equally sad about that ... me blog her results sometime. ;-) Anyway, I need to go get some things

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  and feel obligated to write about 5th of November/Guy Fawkes ... felt compelled to go. So after eating dinner at my college, I headed over to Midsummer Commons along with a sea of people. I was worried that I

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  them a pale appearance. History has not recorded what happened to these ... -conditioned (!) hostel room, listening to the dude above me snore, and I thought that ... bajillionth time, I should make good on my promise to write something from Spain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  planning committee, I feel it is my duty to share with you all the exciting event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among ... the building with the red lights directly to the right of the Prudential

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  asylum in Iceland. I was just about to get some sleep last night--I had to ... !" Okay, well that's only my favorite episode of Star Trek EVER, next to the ... Decker fail to save the universe with his well-intentioned but ultimately

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a ... . Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific question, and then use a measurement device to validate our hypothesis. But

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  yesterday for the 20th annual AIDS Walk San Francisco. Thanks to your many generous donations, I qualified as a Star Walker, and was eligible to wear a ... special. I owe a huge thanks to Tiffany '06 (white hat) and Accenture

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike ... of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe ... enough to get me thinking about giving up my Dell and lucky Asics. If I end

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a ... had to laugh out loud when the presenter hit the button and put the live

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

  Making Tracks

  

  room, still know where I want my life to go, inching away from ... independence, bringing me closer to both myself and my parents. I was recently ... springtime, it's entirely possible to be fulfilled and happy, even when nothing

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  It's been another late night at work, but I wanted to at least post a ... , we are in the process of matching you to an MIT student host. If you ... -Veronica Mars fans are quite confused by now, I'm sure). Trying to figure out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each ... freshman advisee, Sha-har '09, selling baked goods to support the MIT Mock ... actually did know her, and rescinded his statement. In addition to Mock

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  prospectives on here might be curious to see what problems on problem sets are ... according to b) C-C connectivity and c) C-H connectivity (Y = methyl, E ... you would for –Me.) c) Use these values to make a graph of potential

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Carnival, The Inner Game of Tennis, the Spencer booksAdvice about applying to ... yourself is going to lead to the right outcome for you. This is true in whatever you do, not just in applying to college.Fun fact about yourself: In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.

  

  101S, immediately (2 seconds) after we pass the "Welcome to Gilroy" sign ... ice cream -- no one's going to buy it if another stand is giving it out ... garlic gives you the power and strength to do things you otherwise wouldn

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  Seattle, and many places in between (not to mention Puerto Rico and Hawaii). If you have registered for MyMIT, have replied to a letter/email we ... invitation to our meeting in your neck of the woods (haven't yet signed up for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  getting ready to play (and sweep) the Coast Guard Academy in an afternoon ... . Afterwards, some students stuck around to ask more questions of MIT student ... way to several brunches hosted by the faculty housemasters. This brunch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT ... way back to the selection room, we ran into Rob (another MIT '09), who ... , Anthony, Rob, and all the other MIT '09s we saw. We were energized to pick

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005