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• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  've seen a truly mind-blowing hack. Someone needs to do something about that ... medium-rare Tenderloin Steak covered in Bearnaise. Oh, and martinis - do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  Don't sue me, Fox News. Has Al Franken taught you nothing? Do you want to see exactly what an MIT student does over the summer? There's no better way to do that than to look at my webmail inbox--to see

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  HTML than I do -- bummer. After that, most of us went to bed. A certain ... hours too early. When this happens, the only acceptable thing to do is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade ... !). My advice, as for all freshman classes, is to do your problem sets

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  people like different styles of roller coasters. I, for example, do not ... features, the lap restraints feel far more secure than they do on most rides

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  has nothing to do with my ability to take you in a fight. The reason I ... unbelievably awesome sometimes! Hey readers! Which do you think would win in a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  Maurer Subject: bike ride I know you just said iHop sucks, but do you wanna ... Subject: Re: bike ride everything I do is based on blog entry potential

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to ... eating sugar and butter mixed together in equal proportions. What do YOU

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  couple. :) Nicole R. asked: "Do most of the dorms have bunk beds or two ... of multicolored lights, in dorms that let you do that, is beautiful. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  in mind, there are adventurous ice cream flavors that I feel do work ... wouldn't be doing the day justice if I put it at the end of this one.

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  one day do an entry devoted to ice cream in Boston/Cambridge, what do

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  something you do for the pleasure of it." That question, on the MIT ... . "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it." The question is

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  culture is quite important at MIT: you can choose how much you do or don ... centralized where you live, as many do. As a result, every dorm hosts their own ... of CryoFAC has nothing to do with the ice cream at all: every year

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  unfunded high school club can fix, we didn't do a lot other than sit around ... of pinball on their pinball machine. I didn't do great though and the ... Spears and I do wear the shirt. Verdict: Keep both for the joke and the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  wanted to do was possible. he was the one to make her model a reality ... the fundamental and unbridgeable gap between the art she wants to do and the art Course 4 tries to make her do, her R&D installation is a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  through all the food I have stocked up, talk about where I do my grocery ... during the height of the pandemic, but when I do bake I find it really ... use it. Shabbat candles: I bounce back and forth between doing other

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  emails with the subject line “help i don’t know what I’m doing with my life ... out what you’re going to do with your life.” The truth was (and still is ... trust that I’ll become less clueless with time. I still do have passion

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  the class structure, but it also made me want to do something more hands ... allowed me to do the internship when the summer eventually rolled around ... disoriented. How could I do all the exciting course 3 things while still being a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  tubes for us, so all we had to do was weld 'em together. Simple, yah ... together. And you don't know how to grind that off and re-do it, either ... eating smoothies now, and how was she doing? How was her company, how did

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  motion. My junior year it felt kinda like magic. If you told me to do something, I'd probably do it, no questions asked.  This year, I went to ... people may be confident that they got far higher than 70%, but I do not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020