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  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  Admissions Hometown: Baltimore, MD High school: Gilman College: Oberlin, 1996 ... city (250,000+ college students can have that effect on a place), the ... 's car. That steering wheel was dope. Advice about applying to college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  Hi everyone! Just finally got caught up with answering your questions here and over at College Confidential. Haven't had much time to hang out on the web, as we've been in selection committee since last wednesday

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  you as it might have been for my (pre-internet) generation of college

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  of my old college friends who are writers, and two quick web searches

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  : Michael Buble, Come Fly with Me Not the same few colleges: The University

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is EECS?

  , nanotechnology and more. Part of both the Schwarzman College of Computing and the
• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  preparation includes—at the very least—one year each of college-level calculus
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  with? Good. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a tray ... thinner than I chop the beets. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. 450 degrees is also okay. Add a generous amount of salt and pepper and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school. College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build ... frustration made me aloof. I didn't want college to be a repeat of high school

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  anxious students and family members who are going through the college ... literally only been 8 months since I had college apps"]as an elder now ... ambiguous goal of being a college student not just anywhere, but at a very

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  college math classes require a lot more mental legwork than my high school ... : I think I came into college with the expectation that my classes would ... , please do keep an open mind about college math classes! My math classes in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  University for 7 years before going up to Boston for college but this was my ... in some suite in Branford College (a residential college of Yale). The ... majors from NYU, Sarah Lawrence, Yale, Connecticut College at my table. A

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  We are in our senior year of college [annotation note ... , but it is actually uncanny how déjà vu senior year of college feels. It ... after finishing all our college apps. But here we are, filling out

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  , also the first days of college, were intense. The East Campus Head of ... and since—that start-of-college-90-mph energy has reduced substantially ... Boston activity I've done in college. Sure, I go to Faneuil Hall, but only

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... very far removed from the circus that was college applications for me and ... as resilient as them. There's this weird trend in the college

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  pamphlets, hand-outs, and websites, all expounding on their respective college’s ... without experiencing the college firsthand, there was no way for me to know ... us to work together as we will when we leave the shelter of a college

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  college choice. She starts things off with the following from golfer Kelli Keuhne: "[In many ways, picking a college is a lot like marriage: the ... helpful before deciding which college to attend. Ask yourself the important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  apparently represent the largest college applicant pool ever nationwide. As I ... college, a lack of additional colleges having been built, students taking ... colleges nationwide to accommodate this aberration. I entitled this post

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  reserved for college decisions (I still remember it well). Good news: next ... ;Why College Rankings Are a Joke," the external proof that you can do ... on the way to getting what you want out of college. Not because of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  my experience, the best college admissions website. It’s well ... reassuring and helpful for all of my college applications. Some posts I found ... junior year of college and blush (for reference, my third ever blog post is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016