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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

  

  ’ve struggled to earn B’s here!—I can’t see how those 250 words would have hurt my ... I spent this morning sitting in 1369 Coffee on Mass Ave writing new ... , for one thing. For another, I didn’t actually put “MIT” in the subjects

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

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  . The website tells you what MIT is looking for and how to get here, in as ... Applicants plus at least 30 more from hopefuls in grades 8-11, and I don't ... that I can give you to answer all your questions: visit the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  , the researchers in the Seung Lab designed a robot that learns how to ... little bit of control in how to use these muscles." By creating a ... Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  &J sandwich orrrr I decide I'm too lazy to make my lunch and that I'll just buy ... : Finally at Merck! I can't actually talk about my specific project, but just as a general overview, I'm working in Merck's vaccine division this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  know, I know, three plays AND five elections and/or speakers, how does ... taken from the website. Again. So anyway, back to this semester, I saw ... This Crummy Place, and Trying to Escape This Crummy Place. I can't find

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Enigma Gold Star Winners! Don, tell them what they've won...

  

  To follow up on this entry... Thanks for playing Engima Wrapped In A Riddle! Don, tell them what they've won. Wow! I am impressed by how many ... winner, but by the list you can see we are feeling the holiday cheer! The

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  to the last times in my life, especially because I've realized recently ... waited in the car, promising that I'd visit again soon. I had even been ... Campus party I went to was, nor what the last meal that I cooked in my hall

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  ring's design can be found at the Brass Rat 2019 website--go take a look ... , check out my personal blog for a sewing post about how I made my dress ... where the whole sophomore class dresses up in everything from onesies to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago ... references to this come up again and again in wildly different places, and I sometimes wonder how people first heard about it. I don't remember. This place

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  you turn to chewing on college applications. Perhaps you’re like how I ... think about the marshmallow in front of her, or how you’re not thinking ... dangling some brightly colored yarn in front of a hyper cat. I know it helped

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  needed for the webcast. What you can't see in the picture is what I ... before understands what I'm talking about. I don't have much time now, but in the tradition of my last several blog entries, consider this entry

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  paintings Edward Hopper made in his lifetime. So, when I learned that the ... ="1000"] “[This painting] looks at how multiple things can be true at the ... ; listen to it on the Whitney website (scroll down)) “...located in the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  easy combination to come by). In case you can't tell, I procrastinated ... 2014 sweatpants draped over it. They're COVERED in dirt. Last night, I ... ballgown is dangling from a ceiling pipe. It doesn't fit in my wardrobe; if I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  parties made possible by Jay Sean. I’ve learned a couple things. Like how ... of grief and I-wish-I-had-Hermione’s-time-turner yearning. And how old ... More than a month ago, I stepped drowsily off a Southwest Airlines

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  reenactor like that one episode of Amazing Race 4 in Vienna. I took this ... 's last indirect free kick, so I could memorialize how close France came to ... another 2.20 ticket I saved myself from buying. On July 3rd, we had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  , by default, are placed in RBA. (Ask me how I know.) And even though RBA ... seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in ... didn't hear you; I have a banana in my ear. RESIDENCE-BASED ADVISING WILL

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... of people yell "I'm in!" back at you (The Pour House is a bar ... over now. I believe RSI is started up but I don't actually know how to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  route back at home) so now run 3-4 miles every few days. I can't always do ... * faster than I am, and *very* patient. Reading: In the half hour before I ... I am a first-semester senior. As a result, my brain has been swimming

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  admission in any way? 3. How can I access your answers to queries posted in ... /2 months(my Junior year) on exchange in Germany. How can I relate my ... . How do I change my address? Thanks!" Don't worry! You can either email

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who ... Tuesday, I went apple picking! Me and friends in the hay ride! Every year ... Columbus Day weekend was a four day weekend. I got an embarrassingly

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017