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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  little mermaid was HOT. But in the spirit of MIT, I'll go with Speed Racer ... . They are all so different and yet you can look at any one of them and say ... city (250,000+ college students can have that effect on a place), the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  tried holding out, but I was young and wanted to fit in, so peer pressure eventually made me cave in. “Okay, fine! … but just one page.” I closed my ... illustrations of the common feral pigeon on the page. I’d never realized the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten ... promise! Clearly, I'm from Texas :) And the first snow of the 2009

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  Raymond and I recently moved out of our Honolulu airbnb (blogpost coming soon) into a new one in the heart of Boston. Unbeknownst to us ... in for the month of August, but wasn't sure if it was worth the move

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

  Some summer pictures

  

  Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in ... construction outside my window. On one of my first days in Lausanne, I visited ... , but I don't remember. In modern times, the ruins were kind of swampy

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  left" off of the overpass. 2) In fast-growing cities like Laredo, the maps on the unit were severely out of date/inaccurate. In one instance, I ... destination (according to my GPS), I'm basically in the middle of a field

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  reason, people don't seem to realize that you can come to MIT, major in ... a significant caseload in New York City's Family Court, and a third is ... law school this fall. So when I saw this article in Technology Review, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  tour of Boston that basically touched on every place in Boston I have ... -winning composer John Harbison. I remember buying a pair of pink pants on my first ... lecture. I remember losing at DDR during orientation in the basement of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  joys of running bridge loops in Boston. Afterwards, I decided to take a ... opportunities, etc. but I needed to FEEL it again. You know that sense of "I can ... other city I've ever seen, Spent time singing, dancing, and of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  Reading a seven-month-old issue of People, I discovered this week that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of ... when I am wealthy and powerful (no doubt as a result of my MIT education

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  fifth of my life so far, I have lived in Random Hall, MIT’s smallest and nerdiest dorm. Right now I am in Florida for winter break, and as often ... lot of my friends were in 6.828 this past semester, which I think is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  interesting in that 90% of our grade is based on problem sets, 5% on ... .03, though it's extremely obvious that I haven't taken a math class in a year ... last week of IAP, during which I did Women's Initiative. The goal of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  to get rid of. Besides, I can wear those to work or game conferences in ... in the quilt. I can always buy another shirt. MIT equation shirt ... that even in a couple of decades, I can still look at this quilt and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  MIT, depending on when their waves of midterms are - I realized that ... , yesterday - I had 3 hours of exams, 3 hours of cramming between exams, 3 hours ... to die! CVS cashier dude: (I'm trying to buy Tylenol) Well, I need

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  letter in December. I held tight onto the breath of fresh air I took in ... at MIT. As you’ll discover in this post, I can’t recommend it enough ... silly, both in and out of academic contexts (notable example: the time I

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my ... saying Orange County, California. I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, but I ... family then relocated to Carmel, Indiana, a city just north of Indianapolis

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  've been doing. Brenda '12 (Mexico): "I'm doing optical characterization of ... meat quality. I am located in Leon, Guanajuato but I have been able to ... an ambassador for such a cause. Now I am at home in Tulsa, OK interning

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  of other books I've read in the past few years. The Gene by ... to multiple cities outside of Colorado that I haven't been to before ... , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the ... by a thousandfold, so I stuck a piece of white bread in the oven and ... running and seeing one of your professors in the locker room wearing only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  ; Alumni goal: Leon Hsu   Sadly, a loss in our first game of the ... weekend-long conference in Chicago (what a city!) sponsored by the College ... we all face in American education. I attended sessions on urban

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004