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Packing for MIT:  Laptop, winter coat, math phobia

Packing for MIT: Laptop, winter coat, math phobia

How I survived MIT classes without a math background - and you can too!

March 12, 2021 | Jelle V.

When I put my pencil down after muddling through the last particularly hairy integration-by-substitution puzzler on the 2013 AB Calculus AP exam, I felt relieved – both that I had survived the exam, and, more fundamentally, that I’d never have to take a calculus class again. Seven years later, picking up a different pencil to […]