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• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  ’m visiting my family in Ohio, and it feels like always. Except, I do miss the ... they do at some point for everyone), I had a home and second family to ... enough about what they do to work overtime to finish a cool project with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  . Part 2 is from freshman spring 2015. Senior winter 2018, I do not endorse ... mind of what I wanted to do. I expected to learn more about the field I ... classes here do not teach formulas, but rather teach concepts and open up

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  reeling, my heart dropped, and my body didn’t know what to do, so it decided ... show character dies. What do you call this firehose of emotions? It was ... semester’s seemingly infinite to-do list. There was empathy for her family

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  help and advice. Though we do have a group chat for all of us studying abroad next semester, we're all just as lost as the next, but doing our ... credits once we're back at MIT in the fall. Luckily, we do have the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  , it feels lonely to do social science without being able to share in the ... monologue before, so that's not new. How do I move out of the comfort zone and ... through with the whole project. And if I could do one completely unexpected

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  events. So today, instead of diving deep into what I’ve been doing all this ... bridge, and I’m starting to apply for jobs and work in tech and do those ... other brands should do that more. The release of a cosmetic line sparked a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  . Same classes, same classmates, everyone is doing the same assignments and ... , but focus more on technology for the developing world, you can do that ... good pasta dish, but I also think I might like taco salad. How do I pick

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  , the excruciatingly detailed how-to-do-everything-that-you-can-possibly-do ... hope that they are nice enough to still do so even though you just missed ... correct things to do if you’re signing up for a class you’re allowed to sign

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  ) as soon as finals is over!) A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do ... that colonialists profit more than you do from your own work, if your rural area now receives health care, how do you justify keeping them away

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  to make technology “think.” MIT is an excellent place to do this, as ... platforms: How can we present content in the most intriguing way? How do we ... do we search for concepts within video materials? The latter would be

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  who knew exactly what they want to do with life. I was terrified of the ... seemed like the “right” place for what I wanted to do. But somehow, the ... you can handle the challenge. Otherwise, know that you do not need to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  , doing real engineer stuff." Jeremy instructed me to look a bit after a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/15/16, at 6:28PM ET

  

  .mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password. I recommend you do this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  there were so many kids doing innovative things and that they came from ... no matter what age you are, you can do what you set your mind to. These ... crowdsourced journalism startup that has a really interesting way of doing things

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  . But we do have a Trader Joe’s, a Walgreens, and a Starbucks just three ... doing a blown up version of this UROP, going from 6 to 30 hours a week ... something new and edgy to do in the outside-of-MIT world. I’ve enjoyed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  reveals that the days passing minimum requirements often do so through the ... view of what I do when I'm not sleeping, or walking, or in class, or ... studying from hard copies, or doing psets, or tutoring, or at meetings, or

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET

  

  recommend you do this now to make sure everything works for you. Strange

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  began asking us how they too could do their own fundraiser for causes they

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  writing muscles. Here's what I'm doing this semester: CLASSES 7.30AB ... /cellular biology classes for me), and 3) I fear I might be doing too much this ... do anything medicine-related with my life, I enjoy being able to help

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  REX, were I to do it again or were I to do it on my lonesome. (When it ... for Fallout 4 this November, and since it features MIT we're going to do ... Destruction @ East Campus The Accomplishment Wall [flashback: Do you secretly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015