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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... . ------------------------ He-Who-Does-Not-Want-To-Be-Named wrote: "I got really bad scores in my SAT I. A 720 in Math is NOT MIT material. If I do get 750-800 in Math

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... taking leave. I realized that taking leave would allow me to feel in ... internships to fill all of the time I would otherwise have been in school. This

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  person to get their picture in before Valentine's Day officially ends. A ... , bad joke.) who may or may not like piña coladas and getting caught in ... . Solid choice. Alright, guys, unless you get me a picture in the next 34

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October ... dropped my ice bucket. (Luckily it didn't spill, so I managed to get out of ... was cool in the first place, to sit and listen to Professor Sheng talk

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles ... One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... the first person in their families to go to college, their university

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  circus comes to town, and the only way to get the elephants from the train ... proceeded to crash, because seriously, who wakes up before 10? In any case ... (Answers to your questions are coming next entry; keep on sending

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  , and I want one of you -- yes, freshmen -- to come work in my lab and get ... 't dwelling on the derivation of equations but rather getting to the guts of the ... I'm back in Boston now with five Central Meetings under my belt: Long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  , and he was able to get a really great vantage point to take photos the ... she wasn't entirely in favor of heading down to the Hatch Shell this ... best measure would be to get some sleep and just watch the fireworks from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  lucky ones get put into a folder to be re-read and noted later. (Most don ... Considering the lack of inactivity on these blogs in the past week or ... other eager freshmen, still believed 24 hours in a day was surely enough

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  "right" things to get into the "right" colleges, they will be happy, in the ... 't get a chance to thank you in person so here it is, "thank you". My ... colleges to reach out to students in larger numbers, in some cases bordering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone ... focus and let nothing get in my way. tick I feel like despite operating at ... break me. … I love the challenge. In high school, I often had to push

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  whenever my Lolo couldn't even fathom me not getting in. My mom had tried to ... my middle school and high school life was getting picked up in my ... wanted to stay in southern California for the sake of my grandfather, out

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  occasion to get paid just to sit back and have fun, so I definitely seized the opportunity. I had to leave early to get to campus to film the ... 'll be participating in Orientation. Sunday, I had the opportunity to dim

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full months on campus before getting kicked off due to the pandemic. now i ... discusses the sense of purgatory i feel in this post. some '22s i've spoken to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  !) and busting my butt off at my JOB. I chose to get an internship in ... I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have ... 's Headquarters happen to be right here in Boston! (This is not a very widely

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  easy thing to do in the two weeks between finals and graduation, take a ... shopping on Newbury Street See a Red Sox game in Fenway Go to Faneuil Hall Get funnel cake in Downtown Crossing Go on an MIT snowriders ski trip

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  I cry. When my kids perform in the 2030s/40s they're going to hear ... Aeneas. We studied this opera in my music class, and I was excited to hear ... my music class, we listened to his Overture in D Minor and Sonata No. 3

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  disruption. We always strive to evaluate applicants fairly in their context, especially in times like these. I'm writing today to reaffirm what Chris said in that post, and to expand upon it. As Dean of Admissions and Student

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  gave me my awesome experience in Spain. Then, they also sent me to Italy ... and finally went to bed miserable and depressed, I find this email in my ... are going to be on the job market in the next six months, we encourage

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009