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  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  . Apologies. ------------------------------------- Aziz wrote: "If i'm living in ... here in Kuwait. It is vital for me to receive my admissions decision before the May 1st deadline." No worries - we will mail in mid-march, a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of ... -Recorder, a newspaper focused on the African-American community in Minnesota ... gave to the store clerk and the cash she received in return. Thus began

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  : "Would you mind answering questions to a student in highly interested in ... of my blog is, in fact, part of a quote from Neil Gaiman's novel ... of the "talk list". Most living groups at MIT, in addition to having

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  school students in an original, new, one-hour unscripted series that will ... demonstrate excellence in the areas of academics, leadership, creativity and ... about the show in yesterday's New York Times, I learned something I didn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  is a transcript of his Nobel lecture in Oslo here (sadly, a PDF file ... his reading applications in the four years I've worked in the office ... people applied to MITES, and how many applied to WTP. In addition, I wanted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  , which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San ... broke my leg. (don’t worry, I’ll walk again in a few months and be fully recovered in a year) More on this later, maybe. If you want to sign my cast

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Top Ten of All Time; 2024 Edition ft. Barack Obama aka Minesweeper Monday EP 2

  

  In this episode, which was most certainly posted on a Monday, I talk about making a pizza, and how Simmons hall doesn't have a sheet pan in any of the 6 kitchens, but has a muffin tray in every single one?? None of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Understandably, you ... ’s okay, too. For now, just float on, and we’ll see you back here in March. In this world, concrete flowers grow Heartache, she only doin' what she

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  I've been cleaning up my collection of drawings in Procreate, and I ... suggestions for MIT merch" Date: March/April 2024 Premise: I saw a notebook in ... ) on the cover. In my dismay, I decided to make a sequel to my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  This chart first appeared in my CPW history post, but I wanted to ... broken, but in the other direction, oops global warming. (And if you're ... forecast, stay cool, and have fun in CPW!

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  adventures in far-flung cities. Most who are still around are the ones who ... sessions today. In the morning, I realize this means I can sit in whatever other courses I want for the remainder of the day. Today, in artificial

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  , so I'm about a 10-minute walk from campus. I'm staying in two adjacent ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... for granted once I left MIT, so it's wonderful to be back in this kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  we're all scattered across the country in quarantine, we thought the ... DTYD in the Minecraft version of Porter Room, the room where it usually takes place. A lot of us have building permissions in the MIT Minecraft

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  impending deadlines and no where to be in particular. With nothing but all the time in the world for me to sit, staring at the ceiling, letting my ... drive from campus). In the midst of observing Ramadan and searching for a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  Since its founding in 1861, MIT has been a special place for [annotation note="In fact, MIT in the early twentieth century was often referred ... a fatal loophole in the founding charter, that you can actually study

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  post.) I was born in America, but my parents and grandparents were born in Seoul. I've heard stories from my grandparents about their memories ... opinions about Japan. "In the international age that is the present, why are

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to MIT. Even though I have been repeating these phrases over and over in my ... ’t believe it! MIT is like this entirely new planet in which I am yet to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  to the liquor store across the street. I'm in Greenwich Village. I like it here. There's this quote in this book--possibly my favorite book--called Let The Great World Spin--by Colum McCann, whom Yuliya mentioned in this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  to do. In simple terms, we want students to pursue the things that ... that are educationally sound for them to best prepare them to succeed in ... in the areas that are most interesting to them. We want students to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... participants, including ~15k in the United States last year. Bebras USA is led ... International Olympiad in Informatics, and Rob Kolstad, the former lead coach of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015