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  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  , it needs me - in many of the same ways that MIT did four years ago - to ... to really process all of this. In a nutshell: after four incredible years here, I'm going to be leaving MIT in July. I'll also be leaving

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  .Y, will go to Brown in the fall. When admissions deans and high ... dictate what the dean should write in an e-mail message to her son to ... members raise questions in the most unlikely settings. A member of the

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

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  rocket, How to be very smart (like us), and Gayness Is Defiance. In the ... -long classes, to lots of students, in MIT's campus. The differences are when ... then, it's expanded to include middle schoolers, and be held in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  to use. Cartography is still very much a thing. It's okay to not be ... do my part in trying. A smile can go a long way. It is not my job to ... . The people in your life should make your world bigger, not smaller

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  really want to be here.) 3) Is the list ranked? No, not in any way. 4) What ... The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most ... waitlist in the past few years, we admitted very few this year (due to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  , which is the white board in our lounge where people put their name, room number, and the time they have to be up in the morning. Usually there is ... reading their parts in French when it was their turn to read from the book

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which ... not to take the test, you do not need to notify us. In other, happier ... welcome responses from anyone in the MIT community. If you want to fill out

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  to grow fat is a privilege afforded to people who had food in the first ... honest observation about the person you're talking to is supposed to be a ... factor is that, despite taba in Tagalog meaning the same as the English fat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  to rest, 6.002 lab was due Friday. I spent Thursday in the lab, having ... , simpler dream. To just do the absolute best I can do in whatever I end up ... someone who's not even the valedictorian or has never been in a science fair

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  ’ve read in college so far (I might be forgetting a few, but this is most of ... interesting to read the differences between two amazing Nigerian authors in two ... the train, the plane, to work, at lunch, in the evenings, or my personal

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  MIT alums...to the point where most of my dinner table was wearing a ... in lines outside" is not something MIT ESP is used to working with ... civilization in history has had a working answer to. "How did the universe begin

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  joke about Scrapple? What devious pun lies in wait? The suspense is too much to bear. You can relax, because today I’m taking the high road ... I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  list of things to pack. Notice that one of the items listed is a camera ... the events I wanted to attend at last year's CPW by ranking them in terms of where I'd get the most free stuff. This turned out to be an

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing ... -mail, you're encouraged to write the body in both English and French. Now ... placed on the sac tab is automatically up for grabs. This is usually food

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  day in middle school. Most of the time, my mom would take me to Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my ... , I started going to the barber in the basement of the MIT student

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  ’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science ... experience there is what inspired me to take the other two, although I had no ... were points in the semester where I was just like “lol class is so not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  out too much or too little of the volume in question. I've shamefacedly ... in my head. And now, that mental blog entry is here :) I was thinking ... 've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  sometimes hard to learn from the smarter people in the group, who ignored TEAL ... made this, so the magenta is also a carbon.But I don't need that name to ... fix that. I'll start with semester one, which is when the proverbial

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... proportional to how much my ears hurt. Also, because I didn’t expect the glass to ... the cells in your brain talk to each other. In other words: it allows

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  cosmetics brand Glossier. the paper is here. protip: if you want to stop ... 've been realizing that my strongest and most enduring interests--as in, the ... the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017