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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  department at MIT interests you and why?'" First, I should note that it has no ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... - remember that we have no quotas for majors, which is why you apply to MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  : Snively, Since you are used to getting up early now, go out to the Boston Market on Saturday and load up on the cherries and avocados, not to mention ... in the morning is amazing. Then go to Bunker Hill and climb the stairs

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  instinct the first time this happened was to never try anything ever again ... something embarrassing. In one of our first sessions, I tried to convince my ... Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  . Tomorrow I'm going to the Boston FIRST Regional. Then I'll finally post the ... anyone directly saying that women were inferior to men and immediately got a comment stating just that. Are you guys just out to get me or what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  answers to your recent questions ... to get a recommendation letter from a current MIT undergrad student? Do ... for math/science?" You're welcome to submit supplemental recs

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  during my first semester at MIT. The past two weeks have been surprisingly ... long before you want to punch someone, and learned that snow is, despite ... ! Beyond these valuable life lessons, I've also been lucky enough to take a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  5 minute poses, I try charcoal for the first time. Deelia explains to me that using charcoal is one of the first things they teach you to use ... of light and shadow. I find a process that seems to work for me: first

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  My Name is Earl and listening to the first Interpol album. The second ... to ride a bike for the first time in years. Maybe I can get some of ... attribute it to a few factors. The sun goes down at 4 pm. It's cold, so you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  first organize information and then problem solve/do examples. If I try to ... . When I feel overwhelmed when studying (all the time) it is best to first ... I should do first. Making a plan calms me down and allows me to focus

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  two major problems: first, you have to write a proposal, and second, the ... trip to Rome or Sweden, and I'm not going anywhere like Chocolate World. (I'm having a hard enough time convincing Adam to go on a post

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the ... together with other dancers to compute moves while walking to the beat, the ... to see the lights turned off and people napping, sitting on a couch

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... thinking and processes that can be used to mass manufacture products. As an ... needs to be capable of being made somehow. 2.008 teaches us how to make it

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  suppose. First way to enjoy a spring in Cambridge: Find the appropriate ... week, he gently reminded me, "You chose to live here in Massachusetts". To which I thought, "You're darn right, pal!" But of course, now that I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  this, “I consider myself to belong to the following ethnic group(s) (check all that apply)”. At least for myself, this is an easy question to ... mark it and move on to the next part of the application. For some though

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  , perhaps it is simpler to introduce myself as part of the team of people that have joined together like a Megazord to become the new Ben. I don't recall much about the process, but I seem to remember it as going something

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  , though. Long in advance, my father had planned to come up to MIT that same weekend for the Alumni Leadership Conference, but the storm seemed to have ... line for hours for milk, to enjoy a weekend in the beautiful New England

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a ... around downtown Boston to do a little shopping (which had the added benefit ... down Boylston towards Skullhouse. All was going well - I was nearly to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  's something to be said for watching people do really random, stupid, amusing things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room for countless hours solving really hard puzzles on little to no sleep

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  decided to add an Early Action (EA) round for a couple of reasons - first ... In years past, we've asked folks to let us know in August if they wish to be considered for an admissions blogging position, and we've made

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  Wikipedia. I couldn't think of anything to blog about in recent memory, but I had already uploaded these pictures to my webspace, so now you have to look at them. Sorry, what was I supposed to do? Pull out of my webspace

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006