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• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  secretly revel in how hot you are before it's too late. In the long run ... matters. It's how you embrace life. It's how you treat other people. It ... ... And then the committee does its work, however brutal. It's not pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  7:39 PM: It's Sunday night. I have four exams in the next week. Hey ... is more eyewateringly jam-packed than usual: Click here to see it in its full, boxlike glory. Translations: -All classes are listed by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  'm ashamed to say it does. I feel like the possibility of becoming great is out ... live."][/annotation] I’ve always wanted to dye my hair but not damage it ... , table, etc. But because it’s water-based, everything is easy to wash off

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  does my camera have a fireworks setting? ...Cue fireworks photos ... it here first.

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  ???? I applied. I interviewed. And now, I'm back to where it all began. What a world, amirite? Except it took me so stinkin long to come back to ... long story short is that after I wrote that blog post, I didn’t actually

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  the papers? What does the abbreviation “PhD” mean to you ... ;grad students” worked long hours and seemed to get cool results ... class materials. He elaborated by calling it something along the lines of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do homeschooled students apply?

  MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students and these students have been successful and vibrant members of our community. We don't have separate requirements for homeschooled applicants. Homeschooled
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  weather) slowly melting, and I feel pretty good. It’s been a while I typed ... ’ve held your breath for way too long, spurts that come typically after ... a while, but yes, it feels like temporary freedom, to just take a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  put any thought into them, which should give you an idea of how hosed i am. but this semester, it's a different type of hosed. in other ... started (and stopped) using Trello recently - i started because it was a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  ; What a headache Where does the time go?! We're somehow halfway through ... ~ but it didn't start out that way. I spent the first few weeks trying to ... thought it was a fluke. But a week later, the headaches alternating between

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  problem sets, but as long as it's not full, you can change it online. In ... 've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for ... , and it IS pass/no record. This way it also works out so I get finished

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  admissions for a long time, and (finally!) here goes. First, an important ... student who does not have US citizenship or permanent residency (Green Card ... . Need blind means that we do not consider how much financial aid we would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  based on how many people take them? With the latter approach, I'd say it ... archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the ... of any class, but it helps demonstrate the differences I want to show

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  hits me: I’ve almost made it through two months of MIT! 60 long days ... most meaningful way possible. It’s crying without care about how much you ... As I look outside the long windows of McCormick Hall’s penthouse

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  the history page was how it mentioned the logo only started existing in ... graphic identity, and how exactly was it created? And there was also the ... .” Ciborowski said that it is obvious that Tim does not complete problem sets each

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  spent in seattle, and was it even real at all? mit does this to you ... the suburbia that is kirkland, because i think it would've been a lot ... about how i liked this lifestyle.[/annotation] [annotation note

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  , just to share how my semester is going. somehow, 1.5 weeks into classes ... because it hasn't ramped up in abstraction yet and because holomorphic ... Yet Even Though It's Week 3 Of The Semester. but i have been reading the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  't count toward the requirement they thought it did. One alum I worked for ... open problems as extra credit on problem sets, so it's nice that ours are ... .006, which I need to complete my major, so the downer is that I can't drop it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  following each guideline does not guarantee your acceptance, it may give you ... because it is what you want. In the long run, passion is more meaningful ... experience it more synthetically, be it the pressure to earn a living, or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  !) Ames Research Center is the one with the funny hangar- it's our north ... towers all over everything else. It used to hold blimps. Now it just holds asbestos and lead paint and people aren't allowed in it. The pedestrian

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007