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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . ------------------------------------- A few people wrote in asking if I accept personal email and what my ... "what are my chances" questions. I simply can't answer them on a case-by-case basis, because until I'm in the committee room with the rest of my

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  the office wearing a Tufts sweater--I can’t decide if this is elitist in ... little distance I can manage. I have a fear of appearing too crufty, so while I keep in touch with current undergrads I was already friends with

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  OMG. Bikes are amazing. So, I'll admit it: I'm stubborn. I like to say that I'm "tenacious", but what I really mean is that I am set in my ... 've bought a shower curtain for every suite I've lived in. The A21 suite has a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  black sesame powder.)   In any case, I can't believe there are only ... this IAP?" "Oh, you know. I'm working at a startup in San Francisco ... in New York to doing research in Hong Kong. Naturally I gravitated

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  deliberation over the like seven kinds of acrylic paint you can buy at Blick's. I ... the fall semester, and sometime late in IAP, I hit on the idea of a ... plan in place, I resolved to finish my door by the end of IAP. And, well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  [April 14th, 2020] It’s 4:14 am. I’m sitting in bed, laughing by ... conditions. I could sit here and write until I’m blue in the face about how ... up when I’m fading out and who turn the little windy thing in my back

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... -shirts, glorious T-shirts: I may have exaggerated a bit in the title. In reality, I ... outfits that weren't in my suitcase when I got here. A chunk of a car

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  ! Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh! Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin!), I thought I'd take a look back at MIT athletes who have participated in the Olympics. Now I know that many of you may be thinking that MIT is more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  an MIT professor and an expert in both linguistics and politics. I ... good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major ... , I attended an event called: “A Conversation with Noam Chomsky- No More

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn ... again: (I could've sworn there were more parts in the front fork ... time digging around a *bike graveyard* and in the bike store, and I had

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  It's no secret that I am a) living in New Vassar and b) despise it. I ... bread or matcha cookies. I miss sitting in lounge and napping while ... on the other side. I sit in the cold, unfeeling halls of New Vassar

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  Saturday, when I was leaving on the T at 5:30 AM, I made sure to buy two $1 ... , where it sat in solitude for three weeks. I then, right before departing ... wanting to face the usual crowd coming off the train in South Station, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  really, really like postcards, and so I buy a lot of them, and sometimes a ... 's appointment, right before I went to Best Buy to pick up a [annotation note ... girl in [annotation note="sadly I do not know which region of Russia this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  easy combination to come by). In case you can't tell, I procrastinated ... 2014 sweatpants draped over it. They're COVERED in dirt. Last night, I ... ballgown is dangling from a ceiling pipe. It doesn't fit in my wardrobe; if I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  event called Splash, in which pretty much anyone can volunteer to teach a ... ’t mean that we can’t apply it in absurd, hilarious, or even impossible ... spent walking through one of new chapters in the book, which I won

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  to sleep and wake up in a year. I can’t deal with all this. I am ... (although in my hometown bedroom community of NYC, people were buying pallets ... house to buy in my new town, go on a big adventurous trip to Asia, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  ," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," and Day 3 - "College Life ... moment was completely worth the 4+ hours in line under the sun (though I ... ? I got to see it ~20 days before it came out in theatres, thanks to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  in stalls, if you can hear the person next to you fighting demons as ... , strength of air dyers) I also asked if there were a full mirror in the ... interactive maps. Then, I took each entry in the list, grouped them by common

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  to reflect an aspect of human cognition in some way. Unfortunately, I ... I had four final projects this past semester. As busy as I was for the last several weeks of the semester, I was so relieved that I didn

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... of people yell "I'm in!" back at you (The Pour House is a bar ... class I instead have to be at work by 7:30 AM. I work in Rhode Island

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008