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  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  past few weeks have been like, so some of these answers are super late ... Kuwait, is there any possibility of receiving the Admissions decision ... ." ------------------------------------- Shikhar wrote: "Should I put down that I have been member for four years of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  because one of them is a 3 unit class, meaning it really doesn't take up that much of my time! My classes: 8.021 - Physics E&M; I ... recover from that. Or there was a very slight chance of it, but I just had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  I’ve kept an extensive weekly journal since early February as part of ... spring, I went through my journal and picked out some of the memories and experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  yeah, I haven't written a blog in too long anyways, so I owe all of you ... kidding. My research deals with the characterization of a novel gene in the aging pathway of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (a roundworm that is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  of the electromagnet used to magnetize them. Naturally, I offered to ... MARC is one of the few conferences people have in their academic ... , why would you not go? If you haven't yet read either of Andi '25's

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  of a glassblowing metaphor. When I thought about it more, I realized that although I haven't done a lot of glassblowing, it's played a surprisingly large part in my conception of self over the past two years. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  wasn't planned, especially because I still have six hours of exams to ... it's stayed that way for such a while now is a combination of a lot of things. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I filled up my account to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  get to show up, sing with a lot of extremely talented people, learn some ... , penciling in notes between the lines, and the two hours of rehearsal fly by ... buildings. Life is looking up. The best part about summer is, of course, that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  week of rain. :- But... I bet by now, all you '10 folks have your Athena ... installed) to download a licensed copy of Eudora. Also available at that software site is a fully-licensed copy of Windows XP Professional -- I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  i've been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me? of course, growing up, the answer was my family. i woke up one morning ... with the phantom taste of salt and light broth on my tongue, there was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  true that most people have a degree of choice in what they purchase or ... the clothes they’re wearing, or the things they buy. Of course, this ... personalities. This is in part why one of my favorite websites this year has been

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... . But, through very valiant perseverance (and a lot of Youtube music ... -you-can-eat, but instead of being able to leave after you're comfortably full, the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  night reading and looking at pictures of the most amazing place I'm going ... insisting we take a picture: far more chipper than I   The rest of ... before noon since Massachusetts is an hour ahead of Texas and I didn't go

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  's offer to host this entry. Thanks Keri! I've visited a few of the other ... , kids. I had an exam yesterday, just got out of another exam, and have yet ... 've been doing with my life and which flights of stairs I've fallen down this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  history of Stanford University. There's a lot else but that's a rant for ... I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the people stumbling across the blogs are among the tens of thousands of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  : That's good. CJ: But I've also been thinking about a lot of questions ... . Xian: I realized that, after talking to the rest of my team. There ... return offer, I could take it, or I could try to look for some other job

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  ,[/annotation] I sacrificed six nights' worth of sleep—an offering of my life source ... usually choose to watch like The Bear or Black Mirror. Then out of the blue, 10+ weeks of non-stop assignments gave way to a week of utter

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  You may have noticed that I've been playing a lot of video games ... 've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... , that's a lot of hours for a game I've only owned for eighteen days

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to ... I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material ... been negligent of them. It’s interesting to note that a fair number of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  me, some of the people I care about, and this past year.   Figure 1: My desk and some of the trinkets on it. When I started college most of these were from home. Now most of them are more recent. Bottom left: A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014