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Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!
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Happy birthday, Mitra! Don't eat too much cake; you have got a marathon to
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Blog / Admissions
Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.
"yield"), we admitted 1474 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly ... haven't admitted anyone off the waitlist the past three years. What's up ... -- which I am cautiously optimistic we will -- the odds are that it won't be -
Blog / Admissions
Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.
Required reading (from folks who are better writers than me): Ben Jones: It's More Than A Job Marilee Jones: Sending You My Best Also: Bryan Nance A Post For Parents and It's All About the Process, Bryan Don't -
Blog / Admissions
The Ides of March No longer MIA.
. I can't help but be excited. International selection. Choosing ... at the same time hopeful that the students we couldn't find room for at ... lower admission rate than the MIT freshman class. I don't know when -
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Blog / MIT Life
Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?
Wikipedia. I couldn't think of anything to blog about in recent memory, but I ... went to, who you recognize and know by name, but haven't ever really ... don't have to look at them or pause awkwardly to wave because they don't -
Blog / Academics & Research
Randomness
Well, as Laura said in her latest entry, tonight was the "telethon" event. I probably called fifty or more people, though many of those calls got me an answering machine or a "so-and-so isn't home." Regardless, it -
Blog / Class Projects
Television MIT on TV.
out (MythBusters is an awesome show!). This isn't the first time MIT -
Blog / Personal Travel
Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.
'm still supposed to be leaving for Maine in 25 minutes. I haven't decided ... Adam is the baby of the family and his mommy won't let him drive to Maine ... Jennifer didn't go to the Rose Parade. Unless they like pain. And blinding -
Blog / Hacks
Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…
don't really feel like editing all the pictures I took...) First, the ... awesome questions but I can't answer all of them. When it comes to hacks ... still ran the risk of getting caught. I can't think of any students that -
Blog / Admissions
Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.
class that doesn't connect with you.) This will not affect your chances at ... it." We don't need "proof" but it does sound like that letter would be ... .) ------------------------------------- Cheng wrote: "My guidance counselor tells me that she can't send out the -
Blog / Admissions
What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.
. I know that many of you haven't heard yet, and that it's enormously ... while people in Cambridge have not. I can't explain this, other than to ... reality, which doesn't always match up to ours. Some things I can actually -
Blog / About Decisions
Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).
TIM Blog. If it doesn't resonate with you, then your heart pumps ice -
Blog / Events
Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!
Gregor Dining Hall (I didn't know MacGregor had a dining hall, but fliers never ... -100. If you haven"t seen in it, you should!!! It's an awesome movie. 8:30 PM ... studying, don't bother me" look complete with messed up hair, sweatpants, and -
Blog / MIT Life
Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.
bed, and this is what I saw: Very pretty, isn't it? =) Now that I was ... on Conner 3 even though I barely ever spend time there, because I don't ... finally dragged myself out of bed (I won't even say what time it was), I -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…
Today was the first snowfall of the year! How exciting, I didn't even ... , frostbite is no fun and neither is being wet all the time. In case you haven't ... crazy IAP snowstorm from last year. My advice: don't worry about what you -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.
professor inventing a real DEATH RAY, I didn't figure it would be a real -
Blog / Academics & Research
You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.
whole "one boy's summer @ mit . edu" thing doesn't really work anymore. If ... hardest undergrad class ever, or so I am told. He didn't really see a need ... waste this term. Today, since we didn't have lab, we had a 4-hour lecture -
Blog / How to Human
Things to do before you graduate
disappointed that this year's didn't include a couple of things on last years ... that aren't on the "official" list. I haven't done all of these things ... consider this list biased toward my own subculture. Guess what? I don't care -
Blog / MIT Life
DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"
pizza Lunchable (I swear, I really am 21), then took the T to Copley ... time to blowdry my hair normally. In fact, I don't even own a blow dryer ... reminded me that I needed to come pick up my cute new cheerleading t