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  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  humanities at MIT were very much a thing, and Anne Hunter of course 6 fame, who ... fourth grade. I find that unbelievably cool. At the time we were applying ... shouldn’t have been at all embarrassing, and it isn’t looking back on it

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  . I really have learned a lot during my freshman year at MIT.  I learned ... these classes. So all in all, even though it was terrible at times, I ... touch with.  In fact, just last week a bunch of us got together at my dorm

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  more difficult. In the summer between sophomore and junior year at MIT I ... (standard name for the airport you skydive at) was about an hour away and ... instructors, pulled my chute at the correct altitude, and soon I was drifting

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  . The answer is that it is probably not. I stand by my analysis at the ... as a reasonably meritocratic mission, at least for an online university ... critics of elite admissions processes tend to make their cases at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  we did on our trip was find out all about them at the Cable Car Museum ... actually located at the central location through which all of the cables are ... , or a nickel at the time) and there are some figures that move around or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  drafting 2 weeks ago. At which time I wrote the following before I gave up ... . My job, at least initially, will be to experimentally characterize this ... LIGO, like at the Yale lab the search for WIMPs (whose facilities we

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  for some Dim Sum at Chau Chow City, a restaurant that also features ... person coming at you on a bike, steer clear. Not just for your own sake ... Boston, anyway. What I'm getting at is that the trip down to Dim Sum was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  you were at MIT?" I spent some time with both Architecture (Course IV ... information about me and my school and that I was chosen to represent India at ... immediately sent an e-mail to the Admissions Office. At this point, will you all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  Choosing classes at MIT is like filling up a skill tree in a video ... take at MIT! CourseRoad is an invaluable tool for MIT students – it has ... course load at MIT"]48-unit schedule[/annotation] that averages over 100

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  incredible, at least to me, in the sense that I have literally never seen ... , and so we proceeded at a crawling pace for a number of miles. Eventually ... both at the ideas I have for revisions and the original quality of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  absurdity of opera. i will not be taking further questions at this time ... , the wing had caught a bit of a Mamma Mia! fever—or, at least, some of us ... Mamma Mia!, I ended up talking about how great the movie was at a blogger

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  out to a Swiss skater, who I met at an international competition a few ... once a week, sometimes twice or not at all. It took around an hour each ... suburbs, and the closest rinks were at least 30 minutes away. The closest

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  friends! Please come visit us at Random Hall, and come live or hang out here if you fit in. Below is a list of events happening at Random this ... missed. This list is correct. The booklet they gave you at orientation is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  vegan) options every day. There are lots of vegetarians at MIT! :) Whether ... different levels of exposure (even at times little or none) to ECs ... we're very good at this. You can help your own case by helping us to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  rounded app square on my iPhone. At the corners of each square, there was ... ="97070" image2="97069" /] By this point, we were a bit hungry. At the cozy ... crown jewel of our trip was biking the Spanish coast, starting at La Cara

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  about AI. Monday - 9/13 Before Class I wake up at 9am in the beautiful ... the greatest at Spanish. It's nice to be in an environment that works on ... :30-7) I was really excited for this because tonight was Soul Food night at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Building a Robot in 3 Days FIRST X MIT Edition

  

  of my life. I spent at least twenty hours a week in meetings, then came ... competing at. I wouldn’t travel with my team - playing Jackbox too late in the ... and went on with my life. A few months later, I found myself at MIT

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 25, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i got a cat he is so small

  

  airport and the three-hour flight delay, he was conked out at the airport ... ="aligncenter" width="1920"] zonked out on anxiety meds at the airport[/caption] Since ... a stick attached to a thing on a string.) He’s gotten really good at

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I’d like to think so). Unfortunately, at MIT, most of my computational power ... [/annotation].   Three Days Before Bad Ideas At this point, things are dire for my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  , and a stay at a luxury hotel that looks like the one from The Shining ... turns, but managed to get back in time within the last hour. At the end ... ="109023" /] At dinner, our table name for trivia was “The Kids Table (+Hans

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025