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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  four I attended last year. I’ll keep you updated for more Boston ... Eagle, Banana Republic, and Uniqlo—a gradient for different budgets. You ... England, behind Faneuil) for local seafood and international cuisine, of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for ... mind. Videos, for example, are helpful, but researchers have determined ... for students in on-campus courses (and you can follow along with MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  Taxila despite the 10-20% acceptance rate. You have come prepared for any question. Never mind that your family cannot afford to pay for your ... scholar. For centuries, history had largely ignored the 1800-year

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  studying for the MCAT, the next great obstacle between me and medical school. The 6+ hour exam was scheduled for Friday, January 22nd, so I spent the ... and boundaries set for us as students. Instead, we are given autonomy to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  I was ecstatic. An educational video I had made for my IAP class was ... magnificent ceremony for all students (who each created a video), and there’d be ... for an escape maneuver up the toilet seat as I waited for the creature

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  outside when it's nice out. I admired the food as I waited for Katie to come ... go back to sleep. It had been a late night of work for both of us the ... Office)  where you can apply to be interviewed for a lot of different

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  coursework. The supervision work I talked about last week is only graded for ... for all of this graded coursework is that they are all based on ticks, a ... are 4 papers that are each 9-10 questions long. You have 3 hours for

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  interning for the next four weeks during Independent Activities Period (IAP ... finally figured out how to open the trunk to look for the ice scraper Zipcar ... unhealthy. We decided to get the bare necessities for lunch sandwiches

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  and cheered for their friends. My boyfriend's aunt leaned over to fill me in on who each model was: "that's the town masseuse!", for example ... vertigo returned today. I'm at the Conference of Research Experiences for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  When I was applying for the GEL program as a sophomore, I heard a lot ... in my last entry, the InternshipPlus is a requirement for GEL students ... experience by asking for more leadership opportunities and establishing a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  :16 pm – A train express into Brooklyn 11:04 pm – waited for host to come ... waiting for the L train. They were great! 7:56 pm – heard ANOTHER band at ... record for a 9 day adventure of 23.7minutes. I scurried along to submit

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  For MIT students, we're most often having fun when we're way too busy ... Center and the day of Michael Jackson's death. For both of those days, I ... relative impacts and significances for those days by mentioning them together

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  weekend has in store for that set of guests. But before I do that here are ... encourage them “do their own thing” and know that it's good for you to do the same. It’s the best way for them to figure out if they are comfortable

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  Hey folks. I've been busy, which still isn't a good excuse for not ... was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is ... application to Cataldo EMS, a private ambulance service for which many MIT

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  power tools in their garage at home, and even for those that have worked ... introduce students to the tools they'll be using for 2.007. Today was my ... , so some of the processes have been streamlined for time efficiency

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 ... University in England. I am reading for a Masters degree in Integrated ... ’s all relative! At MIT, I lived in Next House for my first two years and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  as "the oldest and best known award for international study," includes ... has for three years worked in a lab analyzing the effects of recombinant ... active volunteer emergency medical technician, and a tutor for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  , MIT is really really good at helping you adjust and prepare for such ... you yearn for a simpler time, a quieter time. A time when the internet ... -billion dollar company came up with for the web in 1996: McDonalds-1996

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  , my CPW was pretty tame. Keep in mind this is saying tame for CPW - this is a lot like saying west campus people are normal (they are, for MIT). In any case, for a trip to my new favorite place, the beginning was

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  , because I'm leaving for Mexico in a few hours and I have yet to pack and ... been talking for 40 minutes when it's only been 4- yeah, there was really no hope for me. instead, i will blog randomly yet again to tell you

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008