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• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  " rolls (a.k.a. cold rolls), which are like spring rolls, but wrapped in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  ". the reasons why are best stated by earnest 2k18 nisha in last year

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  in late february of 2017 me and jessica t. ’20 did a hall exchange. a hall exchange is where two people, who live on different halls and almost always on…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  listened to in 2018: "24K" by Jae Stephens First discovered artist of 2018

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  Lydia K. so generously created for us bloggers who can't think of anything

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I’ve lived and breathed in the ever-growing and never-shrinking universe that is Organic Chemistry. Time and time again, I would spend hours locked away in a…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  It hit me just a little while ago, that today is November 1st. It’s been exactly two years since I pressed the submit button on my MIT application. In the…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  *written by a ’21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* For as long as I can remember I have wanted to travel the world.…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It’s been an absolute pleasure to interact with you over the past six months, starting with all your wonderful questions and comments at…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  Nearly three years ago, I published a post provocatively titled “CLAAASS,” now known as “Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources.” This post expands on CLAAASS to discuss…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  Note: this post has been updated from the 2016 CPW mini-guide for the Class of 2020 (<3), now with fewer minions memes. CPW 2018 is next week!!! We are thrilled…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for effective…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  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 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  I honestly thought I would too. Throughout my entire K-12 education

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  Last week, high school counselors from across the country came to a conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to participate. We heard…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say a really bad…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  This fall, I took SOC-STD 98LH Education and American Society at Harvard. It was a wonderful course, with fascinating readings and discussions, an incredibly helpful professor, and ample writing practice.…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  Isabella K. ’18, from Seoul, South Korea, on the other hand, thinks it’s the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  we make each node a k-size binary heap”). I’d already created a slide

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016