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  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  sabrina, joon, and abby posted recently about the circumstances surrounding the conversion of senior house to graduate housing. joon included full transcripts of emails sent from the chancellor’s office to undergraduates,…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  speaking up for relationship empowerment). i (and Yuliya K. '18!) am in the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  This post was written for the final project for 24.03 Good Food: The Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics of the class further…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  This post has no central topic or theme. This will simply be a random ordering of things during IAP that stuck out to me. 6.178 – Introduction to Software Engineering…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  Hello! The 2.009 final presentations were two weeks ago, and it was AMAZING. If you haven’t seen the 2.009 intro video please do, it’s beautiful. If you want a summary…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  , at Haymarket :) On Saturday morning, my good friend Mesi K. '18 and I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  written freshman spring 2015 inspired by this awesome video from Ze Frank   I just returned from a 7.013 Introductory Biology midterm, and the greatest pleasure in the world is ripping…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably remember seeing an inordinate number of calculators. You might’ve also observed students entering anything from 999*999 to sin(π/6)…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  Technology-enhanced education is changing the lives of millions without regard for identity, income, or location. Ever dreamed of getting a Surgical Sciences Masters degree? Now you get it online from…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  CPW (or KAPOW, as we call it sometimes) starts tomorrow. We are thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past week, our inboxes have been…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  Planned Parenthood Youth Advocates Today at the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, I completed my final Youth Advocate training (a program that I’d introduced here). The eight Youth Advocates and our…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  What is the typical MIT weekly schedule? The answer varies wildly among students. On average, the time spent on work per week is between 23 to 34 hours (source). In…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as many as a romcom character gets to decide her life. Five days. This week, someone from my…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to paint with all the colors of the wind. — Pocahontas from Pocahontas I’m on a plane…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  authors; I was a huge fangirl of everyone from Ursula K. LeGuin to Steven

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  Lydia K. '14 challenged us bloggers to write about our days, inspired by Ana V. '15's post titled "1 day". I'll write about my Wednesday, and what has happened or is on the schedule to happen today. My day started

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  Almost exactly a week ago, after a blissfully underbooked flight back to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT for free like I…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  Some of you may be wondering why I dropped off the face of the blogosphere shortly after going French. That story has three parts. It begins with not having enough…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  I’m writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in the sunny California Bay Area, where temperatures are above fifty degrees and the skies are…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013