As Ben wrote last month, he will be leaving MIT today to take up a fantastic new job (Vice President for Communications!) at Oberlin College.
If you're reading this site right now, odds are Ben has touched your life
Those of you who are savvy surfers of this site will note that our page on "The Match" has displayed the dreaded "coming soon" message for the better part of the fall. I apologize for this, and thanks to all of
Hi folks,
Well here you have it - the new-and-improved MIT admissions web site. I hope you like it!
In October (when I get back from fall recruitment travel) we'll be launching a centralized Q&A blog, in an attempt
office. My job, among other things, is to manage this site. I write stuff ... web sites for their admissions programs. These sites are great sources ... -new MIT admissions site. Think of it as a viewbook written (and frequently
A year ago today, I was anxiously crouched over my laptop on the living room floor, rapidly typing up my last MIT essay twenty minutes ... really hope to God that I get the yes.
After rapidly typing up an essay, I
spring
verb
1. move or jump suddenly or rapidly upward or forward
2. originate or arise from
noun
1. the season ... gracefully complete the rapid upward or forward jump through graduation. I
dwindling rapidly (for a variety of reasons) and blogging is one of the few ... rapidly dwindling supply of cash. What is an MIT student to do? Work! This
last page is on a relatively amusing site — last updated in 1999, a relic ... the site owner at age 6:
my poem. by dave (age 6)
i like tigers. they ... fires.
And perhaps most interestingly, the site owner’s contact email
the move from our old site that Ben built back in 2006 to this, the site ... this site to be, how we want it to work, and what our overall mission and ... point decades: we want to build a site that a) provides useful information