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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

  

  favorite things about MIT is hacking, but it's been quite some time since we ... energy and passion. Favorite movies: To Kill A Mockingbird, American Beauty ... a human connection to an application, it makes them search even harder

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

  Defying Gravity

  

  you want and it’s going to feel so good. Imagine me sending good luck ... Singapore (It’s amazing how we managed to meet at another city half way around ... sweat* I know you are counting down (consciously or unconsciously) to the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  Something I learned very quickly when I first got to MIT is that our ... whopping 168 acres – which is 1.5x bigger than Vatican City! To get from one ... Management, it would be a [annotation note="Which is about the length of 12

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  choke on it. you need to be wanted so badly that you think you might keel ... .   the question— what is it about you that’s so impermanent ... ; you carry so much hurt that it's hard to talk about. you keep circling

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  UROPs. How hard is it to get a UROP in physics? Since it's more ... -shirts to the crowd. It was a great game -- the last one I'll ever cheer for ... going so far as to buy me a poofy pink ski jacket ("There. Now you look

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  , right? I immediately decided it was too difficult a task to actually ... (and broke and superglued one shoe) to buy the clock from [annotation ... direction. We hung it up in the main lounge for the world to see, and a few

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  to be in attendance. Emily's connection to outer space is not the ... I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor ... impressive) bearing my name. I frequently exploit this factoid to arouse

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  " is going to have to be added to the list, because I am seriously good ... special to it, I painted, bought a floor lamp, and threw up a good number of posters. I did really like the color I picked, but it turned out to be a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  complain about not having opportunities or resources to do whatever it is ... free time (and maybe that’s why you clicked on this article)~ And it is ... Addis Ababa, where Gedion lives. It is also where my grandmother (who is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  , framing myself in a movie, I realized just how crazy it all is. That I go to ... ; I blame it on being an only child and growing up in NYC. This is all ... outside to take a break and get some fresh air. It was, however, raining, so

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  ." Unfortunately, there is only one way to become a master at MIT and it's in only ... that blogging is therapeutic and thus would lead to a similar outcome of ... greeted by a screen like this: Click It is then up for you, the student

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  no closer to achieving it, I realized that I would need some ... is dedicated to viewing and critiquing students’ videos. We were ... was due, and still didn’t have a subject. I was ranting about it to my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  to accomplish (eg. it’s probably not worth it to buy a bunch of fish ... highest to lowest pitch). we use musescore to arrange songs; it’s a free ... the process of taking a song and trying to recover its original

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  it's okay to feel unmotivated right now, though. The world is an ... chill, anything is fine. We all have to do our best to make it through the ... channel to play Sting's 'The Last Ship', which is sort of our de facto hall

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  place, like everyone is excited to be there. There's nowhere else like it ... time at Tech Night at the Pops, and I must say I'm looking forward to it ... to ourselves! (My mom thinks Keith Lockhart is "dreamy") And of course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  : This is when it started to get really exciting, especially when we saw ... group and everybody's doing it. The issue is starting, who's going to be ... time to get back on the subway to ride around some more. This is when it

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  , the bridge connecting MIT to Boston is called the Harvard Bridge; it ... much. Prom is a nice excuse to dress-up, see what your friends look like ... mail a month or so ago, and I was surprised to see that it was exactly

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  , we opted to buy a bottle of water, which somehow cost $4. A Dunkin ... her family that she's coming, and is excited to surprise them. We ... January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  politically important. It is something I could never learn to the same extent ... readings!! The final project is to design your own city and defend it to the ... want to do in tandem with the academia that is about to suppress it. This

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  . Hasbro is awesome, they care a lot about what they do, and it was fun to ... open to the toy trade only. It is staged by the Toy Industry Association ... from Hasbro to get us in. Remember, it's Thursday and Toy Fair is on

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008