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  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  submitted both their Part 1 and their Part 2. Thank you for not ... 'd like it to. We're reading for content, and we're used to seeing the ... tracking system. We are opening a lot of mail right now, and it takes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

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

  

  The 2007 Senior Ball was last Saturday night, and as a member of the ... November. The ball was titled "As Time Goes By" and the theme was Casablanca ... . The odds are good... Here are Cathie and Kavita, who focused on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  CPW hosts This past week, my colleagues and I spent many, many hours ... expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host ... the CPW Closing on Saturday was me and Samuel L. Jackson reciting lines

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  removed, and it doesn't imply anything about individual decisions. Now that ... and try not to stress - there's nothing left to do but wait, and if all goes well, you'll know in 2 weeks and 53 minutes. :-) [Edit: to respond

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  permanent resident, live in the US, and not have your 18th birthday before ... , including $50,000 scholarship winners Jamie Rubin '07 and Daniel Kane '07 ... cancer, HIV and AIDS patients." "Daniel explored the theory of partitions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then ... 's Edge") and the Killian Pyramids. See if you can spot what changed ... Waldo Hacks. Now imagine, you were in lecture: And you looked up

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Although three members of Queen routinely sang lead and ... Freddie Mercury, recorded on four separate tracks and mixed together. München! I went to München! Or Munich. But München is more fun to say, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  with built in Dolby Digital) and watch the latest pay-per-view selection ... immediately began watching (and Tivoing) movies. What a treat! Here were all the movies that I love and some that I always swear to rent next time I'm at

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lip Sync & Toons Real singers and fake singers ...sort of like Jessica and Ashleey Simpson. (~17 pictures)

  

  divided the lecture hall in half and told us it was time for audience participation. My half made saxaphone noises, and the right half made some pretty ... the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and is majoring in Course

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  email and phone calls. On Monday, I finally returned a call I had been meaning to get to, and found out that Ben had just answered her question ... about class rank (her school is considering doing away with it), and I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  - 6 graduate and undergraduate students. She very much hopes that you ... , and then walk over together to the Forbes Cafe at Stata. I do hope that ... stand in long lines in the Stata Center, and have lunch with students give

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... listening to The Wrens and eating a confetti cookie from Au Bon Pain. About 2 ... hang out and relax. I originally planned on driving back that night, but

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  , Physics professor Scott Hughes, Professor of Urban Studies and History Robert Fogelson, and Foreign Languages professor Margery Resnick. It's cool ... , and more. One of the dinner tables at ZBT; in this picture, you can

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

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  think wild and crazy kids in togas. If by togas you mean suits and ties ... have been my choice in shirt and tie combination. Basically, each ... mousse, flan, and chocolate-covered strawberries. So typically, we just

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class soon ... Class of 2009 14% admit rate. We received 10,443 applications and ... : the MIT Class of 2009 will be composed of 53% male students and 47

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  Yesterday's New York Times had another article about the new SAT, and ... their length and score. "We're very data driven here, so we're going to ... 'Arbeloff, and many more. And, you can be here too -- soon, the webcast will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  tell you that the Admit Letter is 10" x 13", and the defer and deny ... . We feel that the pressures to apply early are too high, and don't want ... admitted students who decide to enroll), have been quite large, and we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... been several things holding me back from that. The stacks and stacks ... I have responded to all of your comments and emails (this time, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  making adjustments and enhancements to the application that generates My ... current goals: #1 Videos Portlet MyMIT just partnered with MIT World, and ... hope to implement a simple portlet that will briefly explain OCW and then

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and recommendations - and in many cases I was dead-on - which means that my "calibration ... and passion for the climb. At the same time, we want each to add

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004