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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

  

  collectively create - impossible to describe, must be experienced. Another of my ... comparison to your applications. Favorite food: Pizza, followed closely by a ... a human connection to an application, it makes them search even harder

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

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  you get on campus! It's going to be EPIC. As those of you who tuned ... to know them a little better. If you're nice to them, they might be ... the events I wanted to attend at last year's CPW by ranking them in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  did or said. I wanted so desperately to be liked. But by seeing the way ... is anything to go by, you'd be exactly correct. I really loved having ... . emma To my dearest, sweetest Emma. I feel like this will be a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  to be included I have created a very simple equation: LΔ or Learning ... emphases individual Δ measurement. Do you have to be in the very front to win? No. (But you'd better be near the front real quick or have a breakout

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  price on anything. Heh. That proved to be the perfect segue into our gift ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  student would answer the way I did just the other day to the question, “Do ... giveaway that the person you’re talking to has been fully and wholeheartedly ... don’t know which one you’re on or which you’re going to (as is often the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Can you recommend some academic competitions?

  It's great that you're searching for programs to challenge yourself academically. We have info on science olympiads, science fairs, robotics competitions, and maker opportunities on our STEM programs page.
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  other by sight or name were quick to meet. I came in fresh from REX and ... outrageous, but such water-fire extinguisher fights used to be a regular occurrence. This is why, when carpets were going to be installed in the halls

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  6.081 (Introduction to EECS 1). Course 6 will be changing its ... the modifications being introduced. I will try to cover it briefly, but if you’re looking for a detailed curriculum, go to http://www.eecs.mit.edu/ug/newcurriculum/index

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  break, expecting to be mostly alone, knowing that it’d be really different ... spending my free time more constructively. I should be going to museums, I ... friend and I went to Chinatown, knowing that somewhere had to be open. We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  by 1 or 2, you'll be able to get plenty of sleep. 2. Anthony, who is ... world. 6. Videos and pizza with friends is a perfectly acceptable way to ... 't had a great group of friends and suitemates to be my support system when

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  . Actually, I didn't expect it to be this great at all. Even though I loved ... .    In fact, I can prove it to you by sharing what we started off our third ...  special symbols. Helps to speak several foreign languages. 6. Proof by exhaustion

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  included. By the middle of November, that number dropped to 2. Being single ... around the house, wanted to be recognized and validated by the public eye ... Six minutes ago I was supposed to be out on my flight from Los

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  ”, “Many Ways to Define ‘the Best’” (by Ben Jones ... and shouldn’t be used in essays). This post is addressed to all ... ;An Open Letter to MIT Applicants” by Ceri R. ‘16, &ldquo

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  academic departments, or courses, which are often referred to by their course ... Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  both would be staying at MIT over the break (flights to Oregon are ... Snively?" So much for pretending to be a prefrosh. It turns out that the ... would take to arrive by T, meaning we were all about 15 minutes early. As

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  that could guide me - only an emptiness that needed to be filled by ... pain, pretending sacrifice means I’m being hardcore and committed to my ... - always on my way to somewhere. One day, a friend tells me, “Hanging out

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  ones I will notice. I found out yesterday that I'll get to be a blogger this year, so I know it’s a bit eager to be starting to write already ... , wiped blank by the ten-hour road trip, who will be born for real in the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  seems to have tickets to see the film when it premieres. Before you ask ... been revealed to us so far (mostly from watching out-of-context trailer ... dorm at MIT) will appear in a few scenes. There will be some car chase

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  say, okay, well, i'm going to the party. i'll be there for an hour, max ... usually being one of the faster teams to finish. none of us were feeling it ... that there'd be enough new players to keep the guild going. and i care

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021