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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among ... our applications. It's not anything I can explain - you just know when ... , and EC" The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  the semester at around 5 or 6 and in those next two weeks or so I drop what I can't handle / don't think I prioritize as much. This time, I am ... I have some interest in AI but if I fail 6.006 Intro to Algorithms

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  Arthur in [annotation note='I didn’t realize quite how unhinged that ... finishing it. Every time I've started it, I've gotten caught up in this ... personal life, and I can't really do that for a whole host of reasons. So, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  . It's not like you can get by without working, I spent many sleepless ... with physics (which I accidentally got a B in, go figure). I think I ... getting C's (and by C's I mean P's) in all of my classes, and I feel that I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  ? Can I see myself learning from them? Do I want to learn from them? Will I be proud in four years to call myself an alumnus of the school? Don't forget the money factor! Will I / Can I make a difference? If you visited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  moment, though, I try to keep that analysis in the background and cherish ... the most efficient operations I have ever seen; you walk in, they look ... me 'weak' (娇气)"]all in the span of about two minutes.[/annotation] As I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  the competing teams; I also expect you will learn how one of MIT ... to 'attend,' alas, but I can't wait to watch the archived footage later! ... is tonight! Every year we blog about 2.009, a capstone course in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  more could you ask for??? Here's what I've been eating in the past few ... tastiest dishes you can make for the amount of effort you put in. All it ... Sour Tofu Stir Fry   Can we appreciate how aesthetic this looks

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

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  days, I can't watch TV (a real TV) without internet on my lap. I can ... once in a while. OK I may be an Internet addict, but I am not alone ... degrees Fahrenheit, which isn't even high in sauna standards; but I was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  gameplay i learned how to keep myself centered on the pads without looking at ... found a level i wanted to beat in my remaining week at mit. it was grand ... jump every ten or twenty beats, the climax had 27 jumps in a row. i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  Hey y’all, My god I can’t believe it! It has been almost 2 months since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance ... summer! This summer, I am doing research in synthetic biology as a member

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment ... understand who you are - in context. Remember, we don't get a chance to meet ... information as possible so that we can make an informed decision. You'll hear me

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  tone or idiom, because I wouldn’t know how to manage those things in ... honey thing. “I would never even consider going vegan if I lived in Paris,” I told Uzay, sitting there next to him in the park, breaking off bits

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  student-run ambulance is back in service now, so I expect that to take up ... . But more on those when we get closer to reg day. In other news, I totally love that I started a web browser war in the comments thread of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  much as I can to make it easier for myself in future [annotation note ... before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my ... November Sunday: I camped in the Hayden Library to crank out my essay. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  there me: I was in Salem NH me: And i didn't know how to get back Vincent ... mean? These are the questions that I ask myself about 20 miles in. I can ... focusing on how to live with this hip. In a Messenger chat with myself, I am

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  of hours on composition and i think i’m pretty happy with how it ... second solo; in the case of my 21m.301 project i wanted as high-quality of ... successful in either instance as i’m still inexperienced in writing music, but

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  by Joyce Carol Oates that we read in AP English. When I read it, I ... she taught Jonathan Safran Foer how to write, and then I realized she ... --getting home! No, really. I was in four different countries in one day! I was all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  outside, staring in unbroken awe at the air. I don’t know how long it took ... is that I can feel how much I’ve grown since then. You wouldn’t believe ... ’s coming. In its own way, MIT is a conundrum. You can’t always tell how

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  in its foods, language, and people. And through all this, I can now say ... writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to ... was so shit, but regardless! I started writing my essays in early

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019