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  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06… ————————————- Many people wrote in with concerns about the application tracking portlet. Please don’t worry, and there’s no need to call the…

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  One. Last Monday, I waited an hour to get tested. The testing trailers are right in front of Medical, and the line went in front of and around the Media…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06… ————————————- Jon wrote: “Alright, so I have to stay that I have tried to stay silent on the SAT writing section debate,…

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I LOVE MUSICALS!!! wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  (Caitlin O. ‘25 and Oris S. N. ‘23), and I went absolutely FERAL. I have been ... ; AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH   okay [annotation note='this is me speaking to myself lmfao']let’s ... production is… y’know   THE UNVEILED HUMAN EXPERIENCE   There’s

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to ... think that’s what poems are supposed to do, and I think it’s what the ... I found this in my living group’s library and started it on a whim. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  . So, again, why am I here? Well, there’s really only two reasons. The ... understatement here, I might be a tad…scared? It’s literally everything I’ve been ... ="Think of a mix of Audrey’s angsty vibes mixed with Cami’s willingness to call

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  correct about most things, and she’s correct about this: summer slips away ... . ii. It’s my birthday today. It does not feel too different from any ... to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  spent our last two Valentine’s Days there. They had breakfast ramen, y ... chapter. So, to commemorate the Friendly Toast, here’s the scene, [annotation note="It’s a first draft, so please forgive any awkward sentences. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  matchmaking via fingerprint. (To learn about what it’s like to organize Hack ... Portal Wait, what’s this puzzle you guys keep mentioning? Our puzzle ... all of the puzzle’s components gain automatic admission to HackMIT in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  hours a day, six days a week, for several weeks in a row. It’s hard to ... first week. Let’s just say that I’m an unrecognizable skier. I obviously ... Mountain (also Chris Peterson’s home mountain!!!), and we’re on the first

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  Course 9 – Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Outside of classes and UROPs (that’s ... sciences. It’s completely undergraduate-run, but produced with support from ... are invited to MIT’s campus in April 2016 to meet expert judges and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  Biology, 7.S390, through the summer@future program, which allowed me to live in East Campus for free, bond with Ceri R. ‘16, who was also taking 7.S ... . Here’s what I found out: Process It might look like I am sketching cows

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  homepage. I’d encourage you all to watch it if you’re interested--it’s pretty ... concept (let’s use integrals as an example). Your teacher talks about ... . Most people get B’s. Some get A’s. Sometimes a lot get A’s. Some get C’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  that art for art’s sake is reason enough. As Robin Williams said in Dead ... destructive because of the force behind it. (If it were, by Newton’s Third Law ... movement, changed the public’s view of space exploration, and encouraged

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  unintentionally (I'm working on this whole photogenic thing).   P.S. Victory! Beat the Sunday at midnight deadline :) P.S.S. Welcome new ... this year! P.S.S.S. I don't know why YouTube isn't letting me pick a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for ... Congress, now the US Representative for New Jersey’s 12th congressional ... Rush Holt is standing. Well, actually, I walk up to Rep Holt’s staffer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  roasted apartment in Boston. Fantasies aside, it’s a fact that many MIT ... , read all of the Arthur books, and played Arthur’s Reading Games on the PC ... project I’m working on at WGBH is PBS LearningMedia, which is PBS and WGBH’s

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  . “This line is for the Melancholia film screening. It’s by ... von Trier’s most recent work in my inbox. I showed the doorman the ... sequence (a la Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life) set to Wagner’s

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  since CPW/orientation days, and it’s always been between China and France ... architecture department at Tsinghua University (colloquially called China’s MIT ... finding authenticity – the feeling of being in a completely different world...that’s

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  conductor. He’s very fun, energetic, and he comes up with the most ... now, you’re sleeping on a water mattress- only, it’s frozen ... director. He’s very professional, patient, and supportive. He pays

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011