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

  

  at some of some of the blogging highlights of Ben's 4 years (and 194 ... months, those little blogs, buried at the bottom of the page, were getting ... thousands of hits each week and requests to speak at national admissions

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

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  Public Policy, arguably the most useful Political Science class offered at ... con of such a lifestyle at MIT is loneliness. I am the only humanities ... . Most of them are offered by several departments, and so I get a variety

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  , sponsoring companies offering prizes for use of their APIs, and copious amounts ... time. The last day of was particularly hectic. The conference ended at 6 ... future of their industries. Sadly, Disrupt fell on the same weekend as MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  . Even for those of you for whom we don't have enough room for at MIT, I ... Mari and Prof. Patrick Henry Winston. Winston is what we at MIT call a "lifer" -- he received 3 degrees from MIT (SB '65, SM '67, PhD '70) and was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  looking at changes in the electrical properties of one type of neuron -- my ... microscope again, and I was going to take pictures of the lab and our equipment ... everything when I leave my nice dark cozy apartment at 6:45 AM. At least I did

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  waitlist? We offered 499 applicants -- approximately 4% of applicants -- a ... of you may be saying, "C'mon, MIT is really good at math. They have to ... reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  't surprise me if several of them were planning to go. At any rate, several ... umbrella when Adam and I go Christmas shopping tonight. And if the idea of ... little Christmas tree in front of the Student Center. I saw this snowman

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  semester. "Okay, where to begin?" was what I was thinking at the start of ... offers opportunities for students to live out MIT's motto of "Mens et Manus ... face the truth...about engineering leadership. As I hinted at in my last

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  , microstructure of stock exchanges and initial public offerings. Her current ... Kellogg is an Assistant Professor of Organization Studies at MIT's Sloan ... ethnographer's, since she sometimes joins (sort of) companies for months at a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  the only institution in the country to offer an undergraduate degree ... think I wanted to have at least one of my main essays relate to urban ... it fit well here. At the time, this was my favorite of the MIT essays I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  stressful experience of my whole time at MIT. It turns out that there's more ... . She's been doing interviews for faculty positions at all kinds of places ... handed me a degree progress sheet that showed I was four electives short of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  of my life at this place. I LOVE IT. So why would anyone want to come ... reason to say so. If I think about my daily set of activities at MIT, I ... or can you actually do it here at 18 years of age? I return to a

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  LONG / Northwest Herald CRYSTAL LAKE - Molly Pounds' love of horses ... admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school ... , adding that the big company would pay the expensive costs of horse care. "I

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

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  use, at a fraction of the cost of purchased charcoal. Good work ... . ''Usually a degree in engineering means you'll eventually be working on cars ... here's just one example of a) how hands on the class is, and b) how it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  assume that I am pre-med, or else shudder at high school memories of ... , and I love using big data to look at the "big picture". Because of this ... opportunity! Everyone should come to the premiere of Season 2 on November 4, at

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  the end in itself. Take advantage of what MIT has to offer you, because ... Hi, readers. Congrats to those of you who got in. I remember when I ... surprised - I had not expected it at all! Enjoy your victory, but remember

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Admissions Decisions Now Available Online News about the 2011 Regular Action cycle.

  

  released on March 14 -- Pi Day. This year, decisions are being released at 9 ... year. We admitted 1715 students for an admit rate of 9.6%, or fewer than one of every ten applicants. Because of the size and the strength of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  display at the Media Lab, or a bunch of physics demonstrations. I also hear ... . Only a day at one of the coolest institutions in the world, with your ... seem to have a thing already for free events at MIT. I'll cut to the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  lot. i helped design an airplane in 16.82, one of the capstone options for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on ... i contributed to in my urop at the center for civic media:  

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  near Columbus) Degrees: Biology (Course 7) and Brain and Cognitive ... Sciences PhD program at Harvard Favorite class you took at MIT: 7.31 (Current ... , who's going to be a Nobel laureate, taught 7.31. Favorite professor at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006