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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

  

  . They are all so different and yet you can look at any one of them and say ... and you'll get into MIT or another top-tier school that you love. But if ... city (250,000+ college students can have that effect on a place), the

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

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  link to the site where you can vote: If you'd like to post the link ... being said, if you can find it within you to do so, please vote for me. A ... , and all sorts of MIT's lesser known tidbits. Sometimes I get yelled at

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  across part of the turning kick pretty hard to get. You have to pivot the ... a good idea. Usually, blocks are moves where you move your arm into a ... describe blocks, so this part is pretty visual. I hope you can discern stick

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  ideas. So, you all probably has heard that "getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose," right? (If you haven't, I ... to hold on. You can jog on the side of the train and still be quite

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  information as you can; this will help us make your CPW experience as good as ... sure to let us know by May 1. Overnight Program Registration: If you can't make it for CPW, don't despair, you can still come visit through our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  -ing bricks); there are no sharp edges. You can run your hand over every piece ... you attach a piece of sandpaper so you can sand wood faster and without ... course they do; but unlike in a class, where I can always go to office

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  's especially frustrating when your TA can't seem to get powerpoint open; nobody ... being so fast), but I've been up to a lot. More on that later, don't you worry (not that you were). Since I've gone and missed most of the period

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  . Besides, when else can you get completely free support and counseling ... areas in the United States. And you can get student discounts to ... -campus, find out which museums offer free admission to students. You can even get

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  round, although you can't say as many words, it's actually getting easier ... Game," and so on. You can call it whatever you like. Divide your ... : You can use hand gestures and any words except those in the phrase

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  You can't take any other classes in the Aero/Astro department until you've completed both semesters of Unified Engineering- a series ... you can graduate with an Aero/Astro degree from MIT :) (a typical

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  in the[annotation note="The furnace where you reheat your glass, as opposed to the crucible, the furnace where you gather new glass. Yes, it ... thought that was funny, and kind of cool, and I wanted to share it with you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  -dead, "I get better every single day..." My roommates and I decided to join [annotation note="an annual hackathon hosted at mit where you try to code a ... repeating the affirmations does kind of help. I've had many a night where I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  printed as beautiful magazines. It can all get a bit hectic towards the end ... support students living in cook-for-yourself communities. As you'll read ... proof of concept. I am so impressed by where the CSH team has taken this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  now, great! You can potentially get your admission decision sooner ... high. (Last week, we were getting over a hundred emails a day…) While you are patiently waiting, please check out the FAQs below in case I can get

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  , especially this semester, haha. ----- CAN I SHOW YOU SOME FOOD PICTURES ... Two days ago, Sophia '10 drove Kathy '10 and I to Cape Cod, where we ... :P Every once in awhile, you come to MIT and you hear of kids here

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  taken so that you can proceed with more interesting advanced courses in ... , town halls where revolutionary meetings took place, and the first ... -off, a truffle-making workshop, a dance where people were actually dancing

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  project called SandScape, where you have this tray of beads or "sand" that you can manipulate. A sensor above generates a 3D model of the sand, and ... without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  get a seat near the front you can exit the plane fairly early. No ... . Or maybe 20 minutes of doodling on napkins, you can decide.   Step 1 - CHECK-IN EARLY Before you can do anything else with this guide

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  , you get unlimited rides on the bikes around Boston and Cambridge. This is an absolute STEAL for when the T doesn't go where you need and you ... in Cadlab, one of the MIT Lab spaces on campus. If you can call it a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  startlingly similar to an ELL. “You need to talk to people, you need to get ... the kinds of lessons that you can’t simply learn in a classroom. ... If you’ve ever seen Glee, you know that Breadsticks is the token

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012