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  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  can't begin to tell you how quickly these past two years have gone by ... you'd get to meet and interact with your adviser every week. But this ... advising options for freshmen, and it's very easy to get overwhelmed among

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... - remember that we have no quotas for majors, which is why you apply to MIT, not to one of its 5 schools. ------------------------ Zack Yang wrote

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  spending long nights at your desk wondering how the heck we're going to get ... to get there. Like carlosh said, it's definitely made me better at ... was a chance to really explore my creative side by using my technical

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble ... 're adults now and that means you get to make choices. Of course that also ... kitchen that you can use to cook food in, and if you get a few friends

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  feel so tense. It was about as close to an epiphany as I’ll ever get, and ... to attend.   The evening started off by meeting Stacy De ... experience in class with people you’d never otherwise meet. Getting to see the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  time I try to, I inevitably break down, get overwhelmed, and stop. But I know this will only keep bothering me until I get it out, so I'm going to ... mistakes." It's a learned habit, something taught to me by my dad, as he

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  is read by multiple people, it goes to committee where it will be seen by up to 10 different people. Finally, the Dean herself reviews every ... ? ------------------------------------- Danish wrote: "I want to improve my scores by retaking the tests but I have

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

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  enjoy meeting people from other schools and getting to know them. At MIT ... be able to assemble yourself and write? by Frances Stark, photo from ... “Greater Boston Area”) While at MIT, I’ve been able to hang out with a lot

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  a funky-looking dorm is that I can always find my way back to it by ... crashes more often than I’d like to admit, but it still gets the job done ... to spend on whatever we want – all funded by Simmons house funds, of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  . I did move back, and now I'm delighted that I get to now help shelter ... campus for a weekend, to do things, which are limited only by what the writing team decides to do, not by hunters’ willingness to do them. And so

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the journey valid, I booked a bus to NYC and booked it there. Hence, when I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  , which mostly everyone went to, as evidenced by this picture: There was ... , and I had to leave before the second round finished to get some ... By Pamela Ban ('12?) I had eagerly awaited CPW, and it was heaven

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  MIT News, as well as in an email sent to the entire MIT community by ... she would get to know our (quirky, unique) students on a new campus, and ... —  Rafael Reif announced his intent to step down after 10 years in office

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  classes to have a cup of coffee, get going on my to do list, take a nap, or ... didn't get to eat everything you wanted, you still got a show! Here is ... Hidden from most of the hustle and bustle of classes and rushing to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  get to see them for free. I only have to work one evening each month, and did I say I get to see movies for free? Who wouldn’t want to ... [by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  collecting clean audio. If you've gotten to the point where you're getting ... orientation and are usually able to get their own show within a few weeks of ... . It was kind of shocking to me just how easy it was to get on air. My

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  think I was more successful at not getting overly stressed by PSETs and ... , it will take me a while to dig through my mental archive to remember ... for my classes. Coursework (im)permanence. Hopefully by writing this, I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  fix that to something more normal but messing up by half ... schedule at all, and then trying to fix that by listening to the advice of ... , make coffee, try to get into a productive mindset. Think about blogging

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was never going to leave the country. I always get this before I travel ... 5 We woke up starving and went to get brunch in Condesa around Parque

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  wanted to focus on their experience in the classroom by asking them about ... arrival to campus. “I think that model has been refined year by year by ... by describing the feeling as magic. He explained how he struggled to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025