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• Blog / Admissions

  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

  

  to professors before you apply. (Can you imagine if you did? Professors ... —I’ve struggled to earn B’s here!—I can’t see how those 250 words would have hurt my ... , warts and all. You might be pleasantly surprised. If you like, you can

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

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

  

  . You’ll work hard, really hard, but you can get used to it; you’ll strike ... have to see how far I can go. Diagrams. Arrows. Fruitless ideas. Crossed ... time-consuming. Recognizing that MIT can get quite difficult, that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  , and living costs, which - well, you can imagine how awesome that was ... I CAN'T HANDLE IT I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY." On the last full day, I ... :)" Yes. I can't tell you how much it meant to me to feel so welcomed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 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…

  

  checked our spot by looking out the door. I can see my house from here ... first.  Then it smells like spoiled baby poop :( Now I can jump all by ... about PSETs and such.  You can slam through the 25 jumps needed for your

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  there and back, which does not feel like much, but can be up to 15 minutes ... better. It now feels like I can master anything if I dedicate myself to it ... , like the flow of time, I can master whatever MIT throws at me. I no

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  and Juliet cool, he trying to say “Hey kids R+J can be hip and edgy and ... us to ourselves? Or maybe, if you fall in love this quickly, can you ... execute it well, I can dig it – but I’m looking for authenticity of spirit

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  Midway this year - MIT students can dance too!) - that this is going to be ... asking myself how I can pare down my resources to make my paper more ... I still can't really appreciate gooey marshmallows, so I prefer to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  wasn’t one of my intentions. However, I can’t say now that I regret it at ... Psych can occasionally do the same thing – and that wasn’t throughout the ... wasting your time; if you’ve read this far, who knows what else I can get

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  can always match those liberal arts majors fact for fact in terms of ... looking back, I can definitely say that I have met some of my best and most ... medieval literature in a game of pixilated world domination. And I can say

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  (can I use this expression?), it was borderline miserable. Once in a ... of mine as a tiny corner of webspace where I can freely play with fire ... delicious rage at civilization's slavery to flavor combos that can be parsed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  pretty much anything you can imagine because I really enjoy, um, numbering things. Also, lists are really easy to comment on, because you can say ... can be written on the gravitational sacrifices." I didn't participate

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  *LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYY *I Can Has Cheezburger *MC Frontalot *Rooster Teeth, the creators of ... Tube videos (the list can be found here. That was AWESOME! The guys from Jib ... Can you find all of the following signatures? Jib Jab guys The Brothers

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  awesome little class that I like to call Toy Design. Also, if you can wrack ... this, can you give us a thumbs up or snap us out of our fantasy? We ... summarize it the best I can. Lief Askeland e-mailed his secretary and told

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• 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.

  

  nailed a back handspring first time since high school; I can flip ... the latter, (Save your notes.) but sometimes, they can offer a little of ... better data, fix errors, in some cases redo the whole thing). As you can

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  Taiwan (where it is wonderfully 80 degrees outside. I can envision the warm ... can't really compare them side-by-side and say that one is "better" than ... what kind of HASS classes you need to graduate (you can't just take

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  House (can't remember the name) Allie and I walked back across the bridge ... MIT, Ewww! What can I say, we were living the college life. OK, so at ... she started singing You Can't Always Get What You Want and it all melted

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  real life. ;) You can add money at any time, so don't worry too much ... . When can I get my MIT email address? Okay, I know you all want to get MIT ... 's possible that you could find one for free -- you can add yourself to an email

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  that I can recall, I've received something that flies. I learned to fly r ... can't tell you many specifics about my Draper job because most of the ... , it can be kind of a shock when you realize you're not. So I think it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  not ask such provocative questions. That we can talk about… later ... ’s interesting how much having a good/bad teacher can make or break one’s opinion ... ’s pretty soft), I can’t fathom wearing it out in public MIT MakerLodge Shirt

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  like to read blogs, and as you can imagine, I like reading people ... relatable, somehow, that you can swear you could've written the same thing ... tube open. "Can you confirm your date of birth?" I tell her my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020