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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

  

  comparison to your applications. Favorite food: Pizza, followed closely by a ... , a house, a job that I love, food on the table, and the means to follow ... collectively create - impossible to describe, must be experienced. Another of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... relative to the general MIT population. How did this happen? There are ... structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  creativity. I really like cooking. It is kind of fun to look in your pantry ... with whatever you have there. Not having time to go to the supermarket on ... I no longer have to cook for myself. I haven’t yet decided whether or

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space ... you want to try at home with your vacuum cleaner. Ours is very different, with a special attachment to stick on top of a hose. Some background on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  "just to get into college" instead of encouraging them to follow their ... . First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a ... on the topic of extra-curricular activities. We collectively lamented

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  think it's about time. I've alluded to the Burchards program on and off ... there was a massive photo flurry. I didn't get to be in the pictures since ... and measurable answers - I want to suggest that the very ground on which

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  : soo we sat together and brainstormed how we can get away with having ... of how there are so many dimensions to MIT. Angela: what is this work ... who have yet to learn how to use prOfeSsioNaL animation software, we

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  as well be on fire. When you're used to life in Hell, sometimes a ... This semester, almost all of my classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays ... , you actually expect MIT kids to remember things that aren't numbered

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Not so FAST heading to MIT on Saturday for some FAST Thinking

  

  Festival just another of many pieces to this impressive celebration going on ... screen to me on the other side of the couch typing away on mine. “Not so fast,’ I said back, “How about a daylong pilgrimage to MIT to see three

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  describe how much happier I've been since I've come to college. I learned so ... again but the words can't come out right and I don't know how else to ... offer me right now. I don't know how to explain this without making a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  learning to make human-like text, based on whatever prompt and parameters you ... for anything again — you can just trot quickly to your destination ... accommodate your dietary needs. Reason #7: You can finally become an expert on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  UROP! Run back to lab to check on that experiment from earlier. Grab some ... ). Happy because I finally get to eat, and because it's my favorite class. It ... : get out by 8pm, on bad days: stay past midnight. Whenever lab ends

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  to get out in the near future, but for now, i want to share what I ... cool and probably from 2002 when Simmons was built. I tried to get a ... . I had to look up which way was forward on a [annotation note="i feel

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  back here. So instead he came to Plymouth with us on his first visit to ... think dinosaurs are cool too.) After shopping, Adam's mom needed to get ... constellations and nebulae to Chris. On the way back up to Cambridge this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  , anyone can get in on the action by going to these public lectures that are ... of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... intense fear of missing out, I've definitely made an effort to get out and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  identity -- how I define myself to other people when they ask me who exactly ... 't completely easy. I still had to ask for help on questions, but when explained ... .01 felt like it was working to just solidify your knowledge of calculus

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Removing a hack This is too cool

  

  . Thanks Schmiedl, let me know how to get invitations like this! ... Ok, this is cool. Schmiedl was invited up to film the hack removal team actually removing the Apollo Lunar Lander from the great dome. This

  • by Snively '11
  • May 22, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  my degree in Management Science). Famous architects like Holl get to ... left. Originally, MIT tried to build the dorm on the right (the zig ... architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  ." So how does this document, well over 200 years old, continue to shape ... year. Since then, Prof. Maier's book had gone on to win: "10 Best ... . Maier's book, I knew I had to get it. Having spent a whole semester poring

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  decency to ring their bells at least 3 meters before nicking off your left ... suddenly know everything that's going to be on the chemistry quiz on Tuesday ... If you walk down Massachusetts Avenue to the Charles River esplanade

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008