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• 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 / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  During my hiatus, I spent a lot of time working and [annotation note ... for work, and made dinner with my roommates almost daily. I burnt the tips of my fingers soldering, sliced the tip of another with a box cutter

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• 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 / 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 / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  simpler. I was in China visiting relatives all IAP. That would be my last ... from my shoulders. I left it in my dorm room while I was away. I figured I'll just borrow my parents' point-and-shoot for the weekend while I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Raghav wrote: "I have a question similar to John's. I do IB and my school ... well in two of my classes but well in the rest?" Slipping a bit will not ... least a 100 point difference SAT-wise between my writing and CR scores

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• 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
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  This is my third year doing this; see the 2019 post and the 2020 post ... 'm kinda ashamed that I'm faking my way through the humanities requirement by ... a kind of breach to it, I think. You could say that my writing isn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  one here is one of my tiny struggles over the past few weeks, and it mostly centers on feeling good about my output. i've talked about my ... summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  In August I celebrated my four year [annotation note ... times, the only other set of eyes that see my projects are Kellen ... see what I was working on from my obnoxiously large monitor. For the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  into my head when I was twelve, that it wasn’t safe, that it was ... . It was far less scary and far less complicated than it was in my head ... buildings[/annotation]. Part of my role involved confronting people, terse

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  which (especially the second one) had the overall effect of lowering my ... an electronics class, or simply gotten ahead in my requirements to graduate for my Mech. E degree. I probably would have had a better academic

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  (funded by one of my departments, Foreign Languages & Literatures). The ... waste, I'm going to write this blog post as captions on photos. My first ... . It changed wholesale my image of China. I had always thought of China

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  eating everything at eastern edge a rave review of a new food hall!

  

  's campus near the red line T stop and the admissions office. Enjoy my shitty ... latte and some pics of inside, along with my [annotation note ... : [carousel image1="123429" image2="123428" image3="123427" /] I followed up my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  . sitting on my mcat books but specifically only the one I was currently using ... them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then ... against my arm specifically so I can’t type but most importantly, 5

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... presuming how my life will go and for giving me unactionable advice, i think ... grand adventure. The pieces of my life have, more or less, fallen into

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  also went to the Bo Burnham-Jonny Sun event I blogged about my freshman ... why in particular, but for a while I've been questioning my place at MIT and my purpose in what I'm doing and where I want to go and where I see

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  logistics of crocheting at MIT. How will I pack all my yarn? What project ... 've successfully woven in my crocheting with my life at MIT. But why do I spend so ... [annotation note="At home, I crocheted bonnets for my cat"]functionally useless

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021