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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  'optional'. Does this mean that it will not be considered as much as the ... application tracking. How can i get to know when it has arrived? Can you suggest ... difficult. Does it take longer to process things for international applicants

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  'm like "what?! she...how does she...I don't get it." I personally think I ... how hard it was, that's a tough question. There's a lot of work, and ... My Mets are seriously kicking some you-know-what lately. I love it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  “how does that make you feel?” at inopportune times; i want to find our ... mind, accruing interest. Time, however, ticks incessantly, and it is now ... trying to say in the first place."]essayer, as it were,[/annotation]my way

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  ; now, 9 days later, it has filtered through the rest of the Internet back to me, and on to you. It is pretty awesome, and another piece of data ... does this have to do with MIT Admissions? Nothing really. Then again

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  Interview It's a long one, but a good one. Ben: Many Ways to Define the Best ... -colored bar a the top of every page? It's not just for decoration - it's your ... precious, and no one really does have time to read 2,500-plus entries

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , but how you answer it. If you just say "I job shadow a pediatrician" the ... /laundry list any day of the week. ------------------------ Long wrote: "Is it a ... showing you that I made it onto this list so... can I photocopy the page and

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  might be thinking, "How does Caleb get into bed?" I asked him, and he said ... front of his desk, then pulling himself up. It's a lot harder than how I ... IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  have Long Foods. I think Long Foods might be my favorite thing to eat (it ... was surprised at how quiet it was. I could hear every little thing ... . *** Being a Big Doctor (in the Big/Little City) 🐳 So it's been a long time

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  are chilling in how accurately they predict human behavior: long lines ... by a long shot. It was great to climb in bed and read a few precious ... , he’s the only one who does. Maybe showing this isn’t classist but it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate ... post about it. Many of you may be thinking about mitigating this issue ... in any way, if anything, I believed it would be a hindrance. Truly, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  ; Kathleen E. '22, from New York, lives near the beach, but does not go to it ... . It seems odd, reading that post, to do it again, and for much the same ... have we. Let me explain how. How (and why) we redesigned In 2016, we met

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  are worth your whole grade. So everybody does the problem sets.) It ... Mmm, it's a hot one today (93oF, or 38.9oC for those of you who use a ... so our air conditioner thinks it's outside. I love engineers

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  astronomy you're interested in. It's important to see how a different mentor ... future graduate student Anna who knows how to focus on a project and see it ... astonished at how many people recognize me, astronomers and IT staff alike - it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  life decisions, but I can suggest a couple things to ease the pain. It ... statistics. Statistically speaking, it's a very unpopular major." -Liz '11) 2 ... affectionately called 'Burton Jew' for its Jewish residents - eating latkes. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  day on campus, when I[annotation note="listen, it's my floor, I know how ... doesn't have to mean that you have two selves. But it does mean that your ... ." I could get all linguisticy about how meaning is not conveyed just

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  This post began with my long-standing hatred of Myers-Briggs tests (especially as they appear in the Tumblr studyblr community). I had long ago ... merit to it? I spent some time doing some thinking and was talking to my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  don’t have shit figured out, but Does it feel unnecessary for you now ... I need the affirmation anymore. I mean, what good does it do? At this ... hard? At what point does it get easier? Does it ever?” But I held out

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  talking about how we haven't seen each other in so long and that it was ... describe how much happier I've been since I've come to college. I learned so ... so much...only to return to a house that does not feel like a home

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  dislike about it? How does it compare to (or stand out from) other viewbooks you've seen? Do you think it represents MIT well? There are so many ... "grow up with" the web and it's a (the?) predominant source of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  put some lab-grown, diseases-free ticks in a bin and time how long it ... how long the robot’s reaction time was when it tried to reach a blocked position (how long it took to realize there was an obstacle). Writing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020