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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 ... was Good at Math and Got A’s in Math and I thought that was the kind of ... confusing. That’s something of paramount importance at MIT, where new and

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  recently for the class of 2024, and i swear all the sophomores were dropping ... they no longer display that data on the covid dashboard. (publicly, at ... wednesday of april, i could almost feel covid looming threateningly over me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  's actually kind of creepy.   Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of ... source. But can you use Wikipedia as a source of entertainment? If you ... a source of academic knowledge that might help me with my courses and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  in[/annotation], and he kind of just blinked at me and went,  “You ... My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it ... latte,”  and then I did a Lot of Math that weekend,  and took a picture

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  note='As I wrote last year, despite the limitations of these exams, our ... improves our ability to predict subsequent student success at MIT. When we ... preparation; when we don’t, we have to look (even) harder at other factors, such

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  hopes of making good impressions but i realize at this point it will all ... at mit have definitely been very fulfilling and gratifying, yet ... relationship with mit like on one of those public facebook post thingies it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in her free time, she blogs at FoodParsed, where she shares easy-to-make recipes with the rest of the world. If you're interested in learning to cook

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  changed during my first year of MIT. I'm smarter now, or at least I hope I ... PSetted and danced to. I thought of the bajillion people I met at MIT and ... talking about what his first year at MIT is going to be like. That post was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  , you often have to interview at your school and compete for one of your ... ten minutes, I sort of just stared at the wall and let tears fall ... better at writing essays and then each one of these will never disappoint

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  -description attached to this post may have, despite my best efforts, given some of you a ... time for 2010 (think about it -- the writing of this post spanned almost ... a far-too-familiar part of campus with my friend Kevin

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  Dasgupta, Assistant Professor of genetics at Boston University; and Becky Kusko, an alumna of MIT's undergraduate program now studying at Boston ... [by Ken Haggerty '11] As I walked into the main stage of the Central

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  based on your previous exposure, what kind of knowledge you are best at ... MIT has A LOT of graduation requirements. Most colleges have some sort of breadth requirement. MIT, being a technical school, has a weighty

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  everything else. at the same time, i was friends with a lot of these people, so ... dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast ... accomplish as possible.” it took me another viewing to realize that much of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  ?” was one of the prompts I responded to. I wrote about finishing my internship work early and spending the rest of my day wandering around Boston ... 's blogs that overanalyze the heck out of everything."]contemplate anything

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  of buildings around campus, MIT would rather have pipes and wires and ... for me, regardless of where I ended up. In hindsight this was true, and ... one step at a time. When I started my freshman year, I simply looked up

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  problems at the end of this post, and if you enjoy Mike’s writing you should ... else they were very good at bluffing). They had us go up in groups of ... type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  First things first: there was another home football game today -- at which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of ... one side of my body. Given that this is New England (42o north latitude

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the excitement last year: a few members of MIT's Musical Theatre Guild decided that ... of MIT lingo - hacks refers to the "anonymous technological pranks" set

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  graduation entry, I work at Bluefin Labs, a startup of roughly 20 engineers and ... experienced person there!” ...all of the interns were Ph.D students. “Rachel, are you even old enough to go to a bar?” (“Of course! barely.”) My

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Snowy Birthday Party the #IAParty2011 is just beginning

  

  chance to go to the opening of the special exhibit at the MIT Museum. They have ten themes that display every aspect of life here. I was shocked at ...   Friday January 7th marked the beginning of MIT’s 150th

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • January 18, 2011