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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  evaluated in context. "In my country (Kenya) students who sat for the ... send it to you?" Absolutely! "Are admission interviews available in my ... in your MyMIT account) then it is likely that we don't have an

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  Some parents wrote to me and asked me to contribute my opinions to a ... . Obviously my response is directed to parents, but I thought it was important enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and I'm not premed anyway), but my experience was that in high school, a ... week of orientation, I had to get out my cell phone all the time to give

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  people - and our correspondence has been the highlight of my experience ... physically. I threw a party on the Saturday following CPW, which most of my ... whole coincidence just seemed fitting. * * * My boss (Lorelle) is

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  I've written in the past about my love for Disneyland. Growing up a ... the parks and have a lot of fond memories there from my childhood. I went to Disney World with my dad's side of the family around the age of 3

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  just learned that my AP Calculus AB grade for my first semester is not a B+, but a C+. My teacher hadn't properly input my final exam score ... interview, but I think I've just ruined my chances. I truly empathize with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  network that’s frighteningly good at writing, on my old blog posts. And then ... . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never ...  attack. It picked up on my bad procrastination habits too. I can't say I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  My [annotation note="Global Teaching Labs, a program where students ... patriotic the whole school was. Before starting GTL, my vision of private ... really retain information long-term. The week after that was when my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  and tightly wound up in my thoughts. this blog overwhelmed me because i ... eventually dusted off my blog draft document and got to it. i hope you enjoy ... packing my bags, begrudgingly all-nightered to get all my items stored away

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  is unfortunate since I just came back from my second and final one ... respectful"]San Juan, Puerto Rico[/annotation] with 11 out of 13 of my living ... though I wish I had more opportunities to travel with my closest friends, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  to interpret my own art too much. What are the logistics behind this ... show, and then I curated this show, my own show, which was actually part ... constantly be making things, and after a while I just had too many things in my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18 and how it has differed from my experience doing math in high school. Basics ... have also taken very few of those. My perspective is that of someone who

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  sort of felt like I just ran into people as I went about my life, and ... with all my friends, particularly my close friends, I realized that yes ... consider my closest friends I sometimes see much less often during the week

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  with squishy sofas and bunk beds for sleeping. My plan for the last two ... others, attempting things on my own, doing drills, and talking over ... ’ve been spending a lot of time in the bunk room this IAP, trying my best to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  In my last entry, Meagan said, "Anyways, could you please do an entry ... . :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish ... have no idea why. Also, perhaps one of my favorite Spanish words ever is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  claim where I met my first MIT friend, Shubhi. Although I never saw her ... , while waiting for my MIT decision and even after it, the chatroom provided me with my daily MIT fix. We laughed, we cried, we made fun of Harvard

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  basically every moment of every single day of my life, and spent every mile of my marathon training basically just dreaming about what I would say to ... and Barrel is about a 30-minute walk from my dorm. For those of you who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel ... accessing my favorite pieces of art in digital space. i flirted with ... bee movie (which i got for my birthday in first grade). i liked flipping

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  access to the magazines—in my experience, many more people were talking ... , so I was a bit out of my element; even though I'm a dancer, I felt like my body was not cooperating. I knew it would take quite a bit of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  I took two classes at Harvard! I wrote down my first impressions, and ... be in a space where I could see my impressions of my peers’ work ... the writing.  This was also my first explicitly genre-focused class. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023