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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  dept, and somehow managed to get a 2400... so... um... this won't be seen ... done there... which is quite a lot.) As I do not intend to write an essay ... wrote: "How do you guys decide if someone gets admitted? Are there a bunch

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  late for my work-study bookbinding job, but managed to get there a little ... remember today for the people who didn't get to have a phone call like mine ... faces, drained of their usual cheer, widened by shock. "A plane crashed

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  . I promise to get a better camera for my future productions. ;-) ... Mtingwa, kicked off the event by sharing a bit about his research in physics ... Last week, I attended the MUSE Colloquium hosted by MIT’s NSBE

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  that; it's very difficult to learn new music over Zoom and there were a ... are trying to get back on our game, fulfill our club mandate, and have ... that, of course, I didn't get to talk to every single performing group at

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  "special case" questions I get is about younger students looking to apply ... to a boarding school to finish high school; but sometimes, applying to ... decision? Does this student have the emotional and social maturity to be a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  catching up on my movie/book/TV show list fell by the wayside. Not to mention writing and casual vlogging. But my friends and I have managed to get out ... Andrea H. '18 have been planning a pancake-eating contest for weeks to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  uncertain coworker. By the time I grab my sandwich and get to the door, both ... looking all over for you, kid!" booms Satan. "Let's get you back to hell ... can't spare an hour to watch the interview here, have a look at these

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  , not a pandemic. who's to think that getting an internship or having ... to graduating and getting a job or whatever. but is that's what keeping ... one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  able to afford to fix up our house and get Cory a new (used) car, and I ... wanted to go to MIT (longer, even), so maybe getting a book deal would feel ... above the Museum. I got a message saying I would need to pick up a key

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  throughout Boston and avoiding a soggy return home by taking Saferide back to ... .) (Also, to those who note that it's taken me a while to post again - WE ... thing to buy was the mystery bag. The mystery bag was a veritable wealth

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  final act of the CPW closing show, we had a lot to get through to make ... 's, a popular rooftop bar in Harvard Square, to catch up with some friends ... tapped out for this CPW, leaving it to a '25 and '26 who felt similarly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  when I found out that they were giving a tour to people from the Bio ... . Each tray has a barcode and is moved around by crazy cool robotic arms ... think that's enough of an advertisement for now. If you ever get a chance

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  emotional) pain is a lot to get over, but to me, it’s worth it to try to ... strangled alive by now. I imagine she was a kind, gentle soul once. But after ... . Thankfully, after a panicked email, I received money from MIT-Eurasia to fix

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  I’ll procrastinate on doing work if it means getting to spend a couple ... about being approved by others, I used to put a lot of weight on having a ... thought it’d be nice to have a little more runway throughout the school year

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  occasion as any to get something out into the world. As I started writing ... delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn ... me starting this post and me getting to this paragraph, my sushi

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  (center)[/caption] I went to Thanksgiving II, a show by Roadkill Buffet ... evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off ... 10, from above[/caption] I went to a meeting for Chroma, MIT's science

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  , here are some things I do to keep myself sane: Poi Poi is a member of the ... done or wished to do acapella in my life. On a whim, I decided to ... the Midway slightly influenced my decision.) To my surprise, I got a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  can easily (and legally) get. I read a book by (hopefully) my future ... mixed. We get to talking and I tell her a bit about my two cultures, and ... Mall, and exchange my tickets. A man says something to me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  students here had dwindled down to single digits. I logged on to take a short ... week... woo hoo. Even if you managed to have a nice weekend, it's now ... clock hands* "AH I'm going to be late!" (my first class was a language

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  being in a completely new city. Maybe it was getting to know people from ... within to without (simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the ... paper to trifold boards. What started off as a mandatory elementary school

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018