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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

  

  that re-visit to make sure that MIT would make me happy if I got in and ... also knew getting in would be an uphill climb. Oh, and first I had to go ... ’ve struggled to earn B’s here!—I can’t see how those 250 words would have hurt my

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  next 17 years, I would basically be pulling things from <a href="http ... /www/oldmb/history.html">here</a> and rearranging the words in an attempt to avoid blatant plagiarism. I ... the amazing Bill '07. He's on the left in this picture. I'm next on the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  rancher. This distresses me. I own no cattle.) Tucked away in the American ... prototypes (a.k.a. parents). I was in attendance to take pictures of food- I ... great export: How accessible is campus dining? In my realm of discussion

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post ... with pessimism either. i took physics c mechanics in high school and did ... glance. oh, how i was so wrong. i worked with my friend aiden who is also

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  , Microsoft Kinect doesn't work well for people in black clothing!), I loved the ... —all in under five minutes per activity! I loved the experience. If only ... science electives—I think that would be wonderful. MIT Libraries Digital

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  22, I went to see My Little Pony: the Movie in theatres at 10:30pm on a Friday night. I was one of two people in the audience. In my defense, I saw it so I could tell my 7-year old sister about it. Also in my defense

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  lose skill in this case but I will be out of practice. It would feel like ... in the middle of the day. I was fleshing out ideas I would use again ... . I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  capabilities. If you're new to how MIT shows off your grades, then I should tell ... washing machines and ridiculous gyroscopes in 8.01, I felt pretty certain ... that this time around, the problems I'd have to solve would involve

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  weeks. I find that it really comes and goes in cycles, and this year it ... mostly incoherent emails. I will have been in several meetings, broken a ... thing or two I've picked up on how to deal with these weeks. One might

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  to say goodbye to MIT in the way I would’ve liked. I finished my master ... , or the day before? When I think about endings, I think about how, in ... programming languages. I live in Seattle now, where I work on power management

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  like you in that kind of way ;)” vibe. In my mind I would not be happier ... of the core aspects that caused me to work hard in high school. I would ... , looked it dead in its pale, white, papery face and said, “I will defeat you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  campus. ACF or Asian Christian Fellowship, how I ended up in that club as ... what's going on both in my life and in MIT at general! (and one day I ... what my first year here was like. In the video I skipped explaining a few

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  could have a contest, how much cultural enrichment can you get for free in ... buys food (Which is what you need in order to live. You’ll find that ... dinner in Boston but mostly I’m a TechCash guy. I wonder if that has

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will ... In a conversation I was having with my good buddy, Quinton, today ... , but I found that happy medium between breaking into a sweat in my all

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  ? Improbable. Graduation came and went and in just three months I would be ... ways life would be better if I could just find a cozy nook in the past to ... learned how to always be thinking ahead to what I would need to complete my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  tutor some students in physics, and I would then head home. Here, the day ... , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... post as a reflection of how I regretfully spent some of my time during

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  -campus and away from a computer so that I couldn't sit in my room refreshing ... finally, two days ago, I took a break from packing (how did I accumulate so much stuff? HOW?) and went hiking in the White Mountains, a ~2h45m drive

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  clubs and classes to do, I also have to figure out how to balance that ... water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the ... sleep). Even so, some things never change, like how terrible I am at

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  ingrained habit. When I was in high school, I would write about how sleep ... I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this ... going to be an end date to the time that I would spend in cramped

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  realities often, wondering if I hadn't gotten into MIT, if I would be in a ... ) and how things we considered to be brief or tiny, such as paragraphs in ... understanding. In that class, every time I looked up at that quote, I felt my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020