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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 TV: The OC, Alias, and Lost are the only 3 hours I give up for TV ... . And if we're really getting into my secrets, I have a thing for the ... , Counting Crows, Coldplay, U2, Incubus, Mars Volta, Death Cab For Cutie, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  Spoilers for A Boring Friday, you should check that first ... → Go back to sleep → and dream → Get up and get breakfast → "Oh yeah ... invisible—up to the point where this option draws attention to it again. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  organization for lost orphaned baby whales in the middle of Africa, speak Spanish ... situations. If I was working on trying to come up with some new cancer idea, my ... ideas. In fact for Christmas, some of the faculty used their own money to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  after researching for weeks and giving up my entire Saturday to get ... -part post. That being said, I’ll assume for now that academics at MIT won ... think about them changes--for the sake of argument. Though I left my last

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  your project. ANYONE can show up at an internship for one summer, and ... competitive applicant, about what medical schools are looking for, the ... for the GRE. STUDY FOR THE GRE! It's a dumb test but your score really

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... foundation for much of the social science research I love best. In his article, Kahneman describes his time working as a psychologist for the Israeli Army

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  Kevin: Kevin said: what does the admissions office look for in ... application than to sit in a classroom for 3 hours on a Saturday and pay someone ... think about that for a minute. (When you're done laughing at how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  love for math kind of changed. Not into hatred exactly, but maybe ... ...another story for another day) learned the math as we went along. I got straight A ... computation as I go. Ask me to do math for math's sake, or to do an MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  , resilient foundation for the educational, personal, and professional ... nursery room for other newborns. He saw twenty or thirty other boys and ... caught up with them at various events during the course of the week. One

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  , accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this ... memory and then add them up. But if available memory was limited, so that you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know ... “betterness” exist? Would such a ranking even be useful for any real purpose? I ... would be like. I didn’t know if I was prepared for how hard MIT would be

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  engineer in the 1960s working for a Silicon Valley startup, gradually building a CPU out of simple components. It's not for everyone, but if you ... playing this game around a decade ago, and picked it up again because of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  so many eye rolls. For real though, "the people" is the only true ... Energy’s math pick up lines, or DJ T.A.G.O.E.'s mixes, or Malik and Miles creating a home on STEM TikTok. It all matters for the simple fact that this

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  over and we hugged each other for a solid five minutes and that was ... now reading the messages that my high school classmates wrote for me ... and i said i'd catch up on my work and i just played hollow knight and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  (Residence Exploration) Program is a way for each incoming freshman to figure ... , raptor attacks, children on leashes, or chainsaws for hands? A hilarious ... $20 for food. Come learn how to fend off the hunger once the free food

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  snowfall of the year, just in time for Thanksgiving Day. Wednesday’s weather ... before promptly melting just when I woke up. Most of my friends are ... be thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Be thankful if you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  off an indication that I was only there for free stuff. At first I ... and beyond. That Friday I woke up extra early (9am lol), put on my ... on business cards, and I even snagged a spot for an interview with AT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  phone. Facebook blew up with updates on the status of the events. Police ... checking in on people, campaigning to raise funding for families affected by the bombings, and even organizing a breakfast for the campus police this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  . That's a difficult question for me to answer, because there's so much I ... MIT for others, to provide some insight that a high school student ... up 687 days early to appointments **actually 12:19 because my Internet

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  inner pony!” or, “This part is when the baby stands up and takes his first ... the Wind Ensemble for 3 reasons: I didn’t want to forget how to play ... , not music. People probably have super-varied reasons for being involved

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012