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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  how much do I need to score in order for it to help?" A good AIME score ... , hahaha." I do understand why that would make you mad, but in my experience ... sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  the speech, and thought how perfect it would be if I threw in a “Bon ... I've talked about how humor, networking, and great ideas are all ... history. I grabbed an excerpt from her autobiography, “My Life in France

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  . Disclaimer that I haven't slept in 22 hours. - Last summer, a life plan took ... conference in January, I talked with a few MIT alums, as well as Random Astronomers I Stopped In The Hallway. Everyone said: your grades matter, but

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

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of ... happy new year, I figured I would reach out the next day. The next day ... except for the voice on the other end. I’m not sure how many of the words I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  pursue two years of research in high school, and I loved it. I loved it so ... fact. Even so, I am still 100% in favor of the traditional information ... Some point back in April, after all the decisions had come in, my mom

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  remember most is thinking about how in two years I would be going to college ... the emptiness that he felt afterwards. How his stomach would go from ... . Maybe it would make you feel better, someone inevitably responds. No, I

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  away from Colón, where I knew there would be thousands of people starting ... happen. (Don't ask me how I know these things, okay, I'm just trying to ... direction. Obviously they are leaving the game, so I just need to walk in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  different perspectives in these three songs. If I had to rank them, I would ... Criminally Underrated  How You Get the Girl, I Know Places, I Wish You Would ... of that, I am ranking my favorite three songs (I can’t pick one) in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  from bad, or even events from non-events. I would get so lost in the ... Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can read it if you want, but tl;dr: when COVID hit I went to live in Maine

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who ... : My Mom mom and I in Shanghai! Yesterday was Mother’s Day, so I thought ... week, and probably more frequently depending on how stressed out I am

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  ,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson ... with its rush of cars. I'd forgotten how quiet the desert is.  I was ... blog I would note that I was wearing spandex with pockets (!!) from Big 5

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  how my second degree affects my chances of admission. Would I do it ... I haven’t blogged much at all this year. I remember how happy I was ... advice on how to succeed here.” I still feel that way. But I didn’t blog

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  , look ourselves in the mirror and say, 'I'm responsible,"' Jones told her admissions colleagues. "We have to look ourselves in the eye and say, 'Am I an ... of her daughter. "When she was in sixth or seventh grade, I was every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  -paced curriculum. If I had to learn computer science in Spanish, I would probably ... shrouded in a dense fog, but I imagine that in the summer, it would’ve been ... would take more language classes (in vain, given the hell that is this

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  , but they would have been reasons to choose MIT if I had known them. In ... Well, I'm back in Boston, slowly recovering from jet lag, and am ... tomorrow. I already had a test today, in 7.28 (Molecular Biology), so I'm not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  i posted the following message in the MIT class of 2021 admits ... . things like the one class i took on a whim, but it completely changed how i understand the world, and now i'm doing a senior project in that field. or the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  If you had asked me what I thought college life would be like back when I was in high school, I would have said something like “prolly ... . Fortunately, I now know how to make a website, something that I never actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  specifically how I met or befriended the friend (in many other cases, I either ... remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT ... is "I make friends with the people in APO, the Assassins' Guild, the UA

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  . When asked how I feel about a situation, I usually say something akin to ... , often alludes me. All I know is that I like or don't like how I feel about ... (more often) that I hate it. This is how I talked about my first day of my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  interested in seeing what it would say about me. Would it say I'm an ENFP still ... to even how my island is going to look like in Animal Crossing. I try ... . I think it's pretty interesting how I would normally consider myself

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020