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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

  

  's night at ManRay, the way the air smells in the fall, our kickass ... anything from the 80's Favorite books: Frog & Toad, Bridge to Terabithia

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

  The Scholar

  

  bringing "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" to the U.S. With the success of this ... that, for the most part, is what ABC says it is: a show that "celebrate[s

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one way you ... Kishibe keychain, a character from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. She opened up ... reeds: Reed Making Journey: I slathered the string with bee’s wax as I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  be honest, it’s a message that I completely identify with. When I first ... spans from me being seven to me being seventeen. There’s always a part of ... . Because that’s the thing, isn’t it? There’s no way I’m going to know who I

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  (on ep7 of s2) Concepts/Themes: Reality, Life, Death, Dreams, Greek ... : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LqzF5WauAw&t=19s Stills: [carousel ... Richie Rating: 9/10 Current Status: In-Progress (on ep8 of s2) Concepts

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  projects. It’s a relief that I’m staying with someone I know, since this is ... was my first time. When I asked him how much he’s visited, he said, “Oh ... go into some guy’s apartment if I didn’t even know them? But, this was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  It’s 7:59am. The natural lighting fills the room– every square inch ... – but none of that is important right now. It’s the first day of Junior ... camera pans around the dorm room, it’s 8am, and an alarm goes off. A hand

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  district in the city, i’d read up on that area’s developmental history until ... course, any exploration into sf’s development must eventually touch on its ... 1960s, such as banning buildings more than four stories tall in most

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  speed and then read four books about the 60s counterculture movement. woo ... sister's graduation ceremony. although she graduated last year, '20s and '21s got their own celebration, where they could receive "diplomas" in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  21W.757, Fiction Workshop STS.S20, East Campus History [9 units] 18 ... fiction. It’s kinda lame! But c’est la vie. I want to learn how to Make ... ; Right, good job, kiddo, you made a plan. Now let’s pick some classes for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  instructor note - it’s a snow day announcement. endorse an answer for the first ... lecturers mentions that they love web.lab because it’s one of the only large ... things with people i enjoy being around. it’s quite uncommon for a single

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  ! they are extremely helpful."]S^3[/annotation] that week, looking for ... , but the fact that I instinctively tell '25s that I am "doing less now ... .5 [annotation note="i.e. 12-unit"]standard[/annotation] classes. It’s also not a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  time soon, but my time [annotation note="In LiGhT oF rEcEnT eVeNtS r ... ="attachment_53481" align="aligncenter" width="768"] me and Olivia S. '20 figuring out ... tombstone for MacCon, the deceased MacGregor Convenience store. The 2020s are

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  school in the country’s capital. Mirroring Nigeria’s religious demographic ... easy friends with everyone. As one of the school’s unofficial nerds, my ... should think, “What if they’re...bad. Sure, it’s a slight chance, but what

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  . BME is closer to MIT’s 2A-7 which is more of a device and prosthetics major, there is a lot of work in making things like MRI’s, CAT scans ... University. PI’s are the main decision makers for a lab and sit at highest

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  in September, as does GECD, MIT’s Global Education & Career ... an internship, it’s very important for me to have a sense of what ... hours are primarily for clarifying pset problems and wonder how it’s even

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  the mid-5s, with the great teachers getting in the 6s and the, well, worse teachers getting 4s and below. So, you want to only have great ... tough is MIT? If I score 800s in all my SAT IIs, will it be easy to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  are concerned, MIT was in the 1980s, as it is now, a school that offers ... among others), enshrining some choice quotes. Hartley is in his late 70s ... . Why does MIT follow the rule that only U.S citizens or permanent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  calculations. We were using it during a lab, so I took a screenshot of my screen

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  patches onto our clothes and watching Sex and the City, Grey’s Anatomy, or ... Twitch’s wellness fund to expense all of my gear. I learned how to ... the world, stopping back home in Boston, my UROP mentor’s wedding in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025