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  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  event for you as best I can. The ceremony took place in Killian Court. It ... will anyone have to stand up here and welcome the first female president ... , Paul Gray, and Chuck Vest. Finally, the moment we'd all been waiting for

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  up for details on the latter. 2) I have exhausted almost all AP courses ... very good, too. Can these "make up" for the lack of "outstanding" grades ... with it being brought up again and again, I think I should mention that

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  . Things I read for class These are all taken from 21W.765 Interactive Narrative. Going for a Beer (1100 words). Content warning: domestic abuse ... there for one. In fact, he has finished it. Perhaps he’ll have a second

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  being lazy speakers. It's a slang contraction for "going to." But if you ... element- more specifically, an auxiliary verb. For example, the sentence "I'm going to buy that book" is a perfect candidate for the use of the word

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  how i’m feeling now goodbye mit <3

  

  creative work; and how to balance showing up for others and upholding my own ... ’m still so grateful for the opportunities I had at my high school there, but ... motivation to keep up with the intense pace of the build teams on campus; in

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • June 1, 2026
• Blog / MISTI

  six MIT students walk into a german bar iap '26 #2

  

  For [annotation note="MIT's J-term, where there are no classes and ... [annotation note="Global Teaching Lab"]GTL[/annotation] program for the first ... Regensburg is a UN World Heritage site for its extremely well

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 16, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  21M.601 (Drawing for Designers). It's one of my favorite classes so far ... whole more overwhelming, at least I know it would in the beginning for me ... , for the larger part of my life, I’ve thought of myself as very bad at

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those ... only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who’s going to be here over the next few days for CPW, I can promise you that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  morning, a car pulled up and four young men dressed in black jumped out ... .Y. Before anyone could go running for the police, the new guide explained that ... fall, for reasons unrelated to the pseudo-kidnapping, which took place at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  came. Some would call me foolish for getting this wrapped up in the job ... up the mail (for real), so it's on the way. I'll be thinking about all ... folks, the time has come. Note that the pic up top has changed to reflect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  while to figure out exactly what I should look out for when choosing ... choosing classes. Everyone has a different goal for their MIT career: someone ... [annotation note="Or whichever future semester I'm planning for."]this semester

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  last stop for the bus, I considered setting an alarm to wake myself up in ... The briefest context for who I am: Hello, I am Jonathan, a sophomore ... supposed to leave Next House for Kendall Square, to ride the T to South

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  in for your interview. Maybe the night before come up with a list of ... , but that would be a terrible idea for a couple of reasons. First, it ... got a request for my interview story. There was actually a problem with

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  ready for you next time If I could grow up in a day, I would Come back ... simply too different. All this to say: for me, choosing what to do after college was easier than choosing where to go for college. But only a little

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  job on IQ-TREE has been running for more than an hour. For my UROP, I ... supervisor. me: i've been running it for A While now and it's on iteration 700 ... , and this month especially, I've found myself curled up in my room, too

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  event, here are 20 things that I’m grateful for in my dorm. 1. I live there Can’t say I’m not grateful for that. Moving on… 2. The bathrooms My entire dorm research process summed up in two sentences: I then started

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

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  my advisor to let me sign up for three humanities classes and one ... future a void. But maybe for this blog post we could pretend? We could ... backfired when I ended up with a bunch of Zoom meetings every day, as opposed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  for a class of about 1,130 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... here? I know that while we plan for the worst, usually things don't ... waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end. Who do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  our exams when the test started, so (all stressed out) I ran up to a ... wrong building, which irked me (in the wrong building for my first final ... serve as your advisor. Please use him as a resource for helping you make

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  , and I arrived five minutes late for checking in my bag and thus missed ... trying to do Biochem Psets, to eating the Grill's pizza, notorious for it ... there was an immense diversity of people, some of whom were quite... for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010