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Coming soon: An entry on The Tech Nomads But first: 26.2 miles of awesomeness Interseting story: My mom was seated on the plane next to a couple with a newborn baby. They all (well, except the newborn) chatted about -
Blog / About Decisions
Admissions Decisions
We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out whether you've been admitted to MIT or not. I want to express to you all my confidence that you will be admitted to several great colleges, and a letter -
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Blog / Events
Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!
, my sorority, Alpha Chi Omega (AXO), had a chocolate fondue party, where ... must say I learned a lot! On Friday, all my sisters wore the shirt I ... covered strawberries and kiwis were probably my favorite. Ask Matt all about -
Blog / MIT Life
VSEPR Google News is the best.
because I set my homepage to Google News. I only did that because I didn -
Blog / Admissions
A few quick answers The skinny.
decisions will be released. Watch the blogs and MyMIT for more information -
Blog / MIT Life
Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.
Nance made his way to the world on January 11, 2006 at 10:40 pm. My wife ... Section!! He was 9 pounds 15 ounces and 22 inches long at birth. My wife was ... , I believe my dad said it best, "Wow, looks like you gave birth to a -
Blog / MIT Life
Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?
had already uploaded these pictures to my webspace, so now you have to look at them. Sorry, what was I supposed to do? Pull out of my webspace ... day of classes, after finding out the ISBNs for my classes, I went to -
Blog / MIT Life
Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.
arbitrarily. Hey folks, not too much of interest going on in my life right now. My entire lab flew all-expenses-paid down to Colorado for the week to ... was the property of my Ukrainian downstairs neighbor Albert. Tip: Once -
Blog / Class Projects
Television MIT on TV.
students have done cool stuff on the Discovery Channel. A few years ago, my -
Blog / Admissions
Decisions Beginning To Arrive How are you guys doing?
Hi everyone, It's been one of those weeks here in the office - I can't seem to get anything done. I'm working on the big Q&A thread that I've been promising you for weeks. I also owe you my post-EA thoughts. Both -
Blog / Admissions
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
