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  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  applications from the office; my stack is fairly random, including applicants ... down to read my applications, one at a time. I start reading the ... , synthesizing. I'm trying to understand you, your context, your story. Using my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  Thanksgiving morning in the ER with my 6-month old son, after staying up all ... harder for air. It's the first time I've been that scared for one of my ... , thank you. On a totally unrelated topic, I will now get something off my

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.

  

  Each Wednesday, The Weekly Dig (my favorite rag) hits the newsstands. It's generally a mixture of pop culture and local political coverage with a healthy dose of comedy thrown in. So when I saw a headline about a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  4 8 15 16 23 42 If you already know what those numbers mean, this entry is for you.

  

  So I'm a Lost fanatic. Long-time readers know that Alias and The OC are my two favorite shows, but Lost is positioning itself to take the lead. I had lunch with Axiak last week and gave him the numbers. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I ... working on my calves. I feel bad because they can only massage 25 students ... another. Oh, I squandered my first massage opportunity. I have squandered my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Can you patch me through to the blimp? "Can you patch me through to the blimp?"

  

  So I can't take an ounce of credit for this artistic endeavor, but I will applaud it's shear awesomeness. So this weekend my friends Diana, Yonas, Chris, Tom, Christi, and other Bakerites made this huge sign to

  • by Bryan
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  to see any students (apparently a bunch of them had come to my Hartford ... Alison Burr, the GC at Loomis. I did my best to explain our selection ... afternoon. I thought this was weird until asking my colleagues about their

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  of my hall's freshmen, when one of them noticed something odd in the ... the wall. You can't really see anything in that picture. But what my ... guys actually read my blog...you were my heroes when I was a frosh

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  Thursday night was my first Central Meeting of the year. Not only did ... .C., but my meeting was actually in Orange County (well, Orlando/Winter Park ... " O.C. on September 28th). My visit to Orlando, by the numbers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  RSVP here. On Wednesday, I will fly to Florida in preparation for my ... frequently about our regional meetings, especially during my trips to Florida ... these meetings can look like. Doing the regional meetings is one of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  that charge, my friends and I were able to score free tickets to the New ... shark biologist (forgive me for my miseducation but I did not know we had ... in my Boston experience, I walked around for 5 minutes and did not find

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  Actually, I didn't start this joke. It was started by my 8th grade math teacher, Mr. Bob Cohen, who had a strange fondness for referring to mathematical concepts as "puppies." "Alright, so then we factor this puppy and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  One of the many things I love about my community, by which I mean 5th ... there. Luckily, I had my trusty flashlight, which allowed us to see where ... clearest water I've ever been in (I could read my watch with my arm under

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  The Proposal One part hack + two parts romance = Lobby 7 love!

  

  celebrate the release of the new Harry Potter book: One of my favorite

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  t-shirt, and my Harry Potter desktop wallpaper's fact of the day read ... instead of in my room, I spent my evening reading the book sitting on the ... . While I promised to continue the Name My Fish contest today, I'll do that

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  looked at my page, but I have no one around to help me make a new banner ... collectively as my family) have all been very busy lately. So I decided to pull a ... upload to this Athena locker, only Ben is a crazy Mac user and my parents

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  Sorry I haven't posted in so long! My friend Rose '05 came to visit, and we took a mini-trip to Santa Cruz, Capitola, Monterey, and Watsonville. We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which is rated the #3

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  of my favorite parts of events like this is getting to meet some ... the highlight of the Lunch (my favorite part, at least) is hearing from ... proud of my institution! A small subset of the MIT '09s who spoke

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  funding for the very first i3 project, and several of my very close friends

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  ? Not my favorite version, I must say. The night was otherwise incredibly ... credit to Mitra Many of you have seen that the MyMIT portal is down. No ... 's Wallace?) commented after my last post about not being able to fit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004