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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

  

  scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... be an intensely familiar situation for some of you. But it’s a little further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch

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

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  receive grades for the regular classes I was missing, and needed to make up for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high ... just a bit more time, but for the most part, I had figured out how the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  choose your courses for frosh year =p) Again, this is only my ... in the head. :) 2. Chem fall, bio spring. This year, I went for ... bell curve), and 3.091 got the lectures recorded on video (for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at Yale (CUWPY). So, instead of ... I'll just borrow my parents' point-and-shoot for the weekend while I'm in the area. It turns out that using a new camera, for me, was a little

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

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  For the past six years or so, I've been a desk calendar addict. You ... a time (I think my mom got me Word-A-Day for my senior year as well ... the message. 4. As a last resort, go for the EBE's eyes - you will not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  CPW will not be perfect and it doesn’t have to be

  

  669 individual events--and for reference, our entire undergrad ... up about how cool it was for a solid week (not that 11th grade MIT ... a bit of a slap in the face for me, after having dreamed about going

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  - Feb. 3 [Company name] interview for the fall - Feb. 8 The Batman ... -time job. The most important thing I did for others...was finally reaching ... world with such optimism, and I'm really proud of myself for getting this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  about serious science; it's also an opportunity for the MTL community to ... for the conference. It was just that I had to wake up at 6 AM ... 'm currently sitting in the lobby writing this post while I wait for the opening

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  only one semester and Ben’s done it for years. He obviously has been ... team performs at MIT events and at venues for the Boston Ukrainian ... ; Our Dance Journeys (Color-coded orange for Ankita and purple for Ben

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  really look for the answer here on the site -- there's no need to ask basic questions, for example, about standardized test requirements or statistics. If ... many places in the world. As for the SATs, you may do either -- either

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  comments section of this post and ask any questions you might have for us ... going to be busy from 8pm-10pm on April 18 for a blogger-centric CPW event ... be about MIT, or how our days have been, what we ate for breakfast, etc

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  . Theory of computation - 18.404 The basic setup for this class, at the ... for any instance of the problem? We need something concrete acts as an ... property. For example: L = {(a, b, c) | a + b = c} is a language of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  search for truth or objective reality or illusion or whatever. two ... singer as a fire for the cold listener. compares themselves to a river and ... brace myself for. everything comes close to evoking existential dread, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  works for several years. In fact, the trip to Brazil would likely have ... MIT and communities in the Amazon rainforest. For the rest of my first ... traditional Brazilian music arranged for the wind ensemble by some Swiss music

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  once I've had a chance to reflect and forgive myself for stupid mistakes ... -name internship for my first-year summer was attainable (it wasn't), then that was ... goals for sophomore fall.   Do Laundry More Often  I had a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this ... before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my ... draft done for [annotation note="Intro to Media Studies"]CMS.100

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  barricades, I was hooked, and I knew I had to go to concerts for the rest of my life. High school was a pretty difficult time for me. I had a lot of ... socially. My mom, knowing how difficult school was for me, started promising

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  , waiting for my next class, and then an info session, and my tutoring job ... -up instinct, and then I jaunt around for the morning, and crash for a nap in the afternoon and feel sleepy for the rest of the evening. But I feel sleepy all

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 ... seminar program that was literally just for teaching you how to do good on ... internships really wound up lining up for me this year. I was lucky enough to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  panic about our living situations for the next few months. My perspective ... days so that I’d have no regrets. For context, I live in Burton-Conner, a dorm that’s closing down until my senior year for renovations. For

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020