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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 ... Instagrammed my food.   (In my defense, the latte art deserved ... transfer to my most recent laptop and could only be found in my old Hotmail

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

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  did my first tandem skydive while I was back home in Oregon.  I didn't tell my parents, I just went with a bunch of friends, shelled out the ... on sensory overload :)  My parents weren't really excited that I'd gone

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  At CPW 2011, I had, hands down, the best ribs I've ever had in my ... 're watching the Logarhythms sing. But wait, is that the bass belting, or my ... through the Kresge BBQ pits on my way to Burton Connor. Grab a hamburger to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• 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.…

  

  – here’s the really good part – my professor of medieval literature. How ... to go back to my high school days. Back then, there were two subjects I ... sleep easy at night. With my first step into the Infinite Corridor as a

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

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  rest of my application materials are up to par?" I'd recommend ... article?" My thoughts are: sigh ... for A levels, can i ask my GCSE teachers? Or is that too long ago to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  -brainstem activity, so instead, enjoy my weekend foray into lifestyle blogging ... laps. My whole body is physically pulsing with warmth afterwards, and my ... shepherd’s pie and an apple with peanut butter for lunch. Then I work on my

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  ’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all ... . I’m a senior in college now, meaning I did my recruiting process between 2018 and 2021, so keep in mind that some of my experience may be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  least an ocean to walk to and ponder my melodramatic nature over. And ... been here for only 38 days, I can confidently rank Boston higher on my ... and actually go explore the city I live in. One of my first ~outings

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  me happy, even though it makes my schedule a bit claustrophobic. But ... heard in my life. [caption id="attachment_103438" align="aligncenter" width="300"] actual footage of me[/caption] I’ve been dancing my whole

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  in the past couple of months, my floor has found itself back in the ... legit to me, although i might just be too generous with my judgment. he ... walked into my recitation room and Jett, the TA who teaches recitation

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  walked to campus today and let the mid-fall breeze bite at my face. i could see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it ... against my will. i keep insisting that i’m in my cool color era, my green

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  school. Monday My team had our Concept Presentation for 2.76, Global ... corporate partner, and a $5,000 budget. My team’s problem was to figure out ... Transportation to my soccer teammate’s high school econ teacher."]user research

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  with the various music and arts clubs around campus before my first day ... part of myself that has always been a defining part of my life. I was ... “syllabus week” thing, but in hindsight i should not have taken my lack of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  my inner engineer craved most – numbers. Without objective ... collected five different samples to test: My 3.020 (thermodynamics of materials) psets from this semester. My 6.1220 (design and analysis of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  a decade. I feel like I have been sent to Mars. For one, people at my ... earplugs underneath my hair, and it occurs to me that being able to casually make my environment work for me was not something I had the power to do

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  little free library while I was living in my van. I wrote a poem here and ... wouldn’t have discovered on my own, from [annotation note="a poem based off ... found that working within a form often allowed me to flex my creativity

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  spring of my high school senior year, I decided that I was done with school ... living at home during quarantine to when I went to live alone abroad for my ... lost my habit of cooking regularly, despite living without a meal plan

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  ="At some point in my childhood my mom definitely made me read up on traditional holidays, but at some other point in my childhood, I started ... can kind of dredge up some memory of what my dad might’ve called this

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  From my journal the other night-- It’s 2 am, and I should be asleep. I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ... of my eyelids, as if I can puzzle out reactions in my [annotation note

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester ... really came into my own as a MIT student. And I did, I think. I enjoyed the vast majority of my classes, and created some pretty cool things, even

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020