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• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  Boston. Now, after a lull in posting over the holiday and during yesterday ... students from the waitlist on Friday. I don't know if we'll take more people from the waitlist; I'll let you know when I know more. Some people do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American Idol? What's going on with American Idol?

  

  Tomorrow is my last final! Hurray! In the meantime, I was just surfing the web (read: procrastinating) when I came across an American Idol ... 29-year-old, in the finals? Back in the day, Simon criticized 21-year

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 play by play It slices and it dices.

  

  Her name is Betsy, and she got me to the finals of 2.007. This ... yelled my name out as the winner. The finals are tomorrow. 64 -> 32 ... the cool cars tomorrow. Did you know that a 10000 word paper is really

  • by Bryan
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  sweet, but also promote brain damage. In fact, the word "plumbing" comes from that latin root "plumbum," meaning "lead." So forget the world-class faculty, plethora of student groups, proximity to the cultural center of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  's major newspaper. Figuring ways to go faster with the flow By Phil Mc ... researcher at the MIT Center for Sports Innovation, has an impressive list of ... 's leading bicycle manufacturers. Now the wind tunnel specialist plans to use

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  person. The fabled Weather Machine did its job on Thursday, so at least you guys got to see some of the nice weather we have hidden around here. :) okay, maybe not... [that's Gullfoss in Iceland] We did a skit at the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.

  

  the student hosts who have returned from vacation (hundreds of them!) and released hosting assignments for CPW. Here's what the crowd at the meeting looked like: (note fellow blogger Bryan in the front row, freshly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The name of the "avocado" comes from the Spanish "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New World couldn't pronounce the Nahuatl word "ahuacatl," so they simply chose

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  admissions decisions via the web. We will release decisions at decisions ... strongly encourage you to use the verification functionality at decisions ... password, because if you don't know it when you go to check on the 18th

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  the sort that I'm an expert on the issue by any stretch of the imagination, but for those of you interested, here's my take on the lay of the land. (But I am good with pick-up lines) I'll flashback to the

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MITES, RSI and WTP applications due next week The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT have their application deadlines next week.

  

  The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT -- MITES, RSI ... , engineering, and entrepreneurship. The Research Science Institute (RSI), sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education and MIT, is a rigorous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update The title says it all.

  

  the adventure. I just took a quick trip back to my room so I could grab ... ! What a day. I took some pictures of the kickoff, which I'll post next week. The thrill of solving a puzzle is just awesome. Obviously, I can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water-ethanol system near the azeotrope point." And whatnot. But I digress. What have I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Bernanke to speak at Commencement!

  

  MIT just announced that Ben Bernanke '79 is going to be the ... by President Bush to succeed Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. This is just another example that indicates the strong

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection: Day Three A beautiful snowy Sunday...

  

  selecting the Class of 2010. While working on a subcommittee with Jenny and Mike '07, we spied out the window some folks playing in the snow in ... have been nice to have been playing outside in the snow with them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  hopefully none of my professors themselves will ever hit the blog when they ... of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield ... this country, especially Really Good Ones, where the president of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  pharmacology of synaptic transmission). But I got outside and the wind was ... , and I got soaked from the knees down in the torrential rain. And then I got to the classroom and discovered that class had been cancelled for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Study Abroad Fair Learn about opportunities to study in another country (8 pictures)

  

  (This is a direct paste from an email.) The Undergraduate ... - 5 PM Where: 2nd floor of the Student Center (La Sala de Puerto Rico) Take a look at the countless academic and cultural prospects that over 25

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston Fun Tons of Boston fun, with a dash of Cambridge, too.

  

  The weather in the area has been simply glorious over the past week ... : very few of the photographs below are originals) Beacon Hill Boston ... /BU Harvard Square - Grafton Street Pub Central Square - The Enormous Room

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on Sunday night. There are many hundreds of thousands of women across the ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005