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  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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  For First Semester Freshmen, Registration Day can be tough. You can only pick 54 class units, while using the precious Pass/No Record grading policy wisely. Online Tools Luckily, MIT has…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  almonds that I have yet to eat. They are delicious). K thanks. Though I wax

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  Sonata in E, K. 264 C.P.E. Bach Sonata No. 1 in F (Prussian

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  This past March, a few days after my birthday, I spent a Saturday teaching three iterations of a three-hour-long class called Hands-on Introduction to DNA! to seventh through ninth graders…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  Today is the fifth annual Save The Frogs Day, a day to spread awareness about the amphibian extinction crisis. When I was in high school I used to spend this…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  undergraduate and graduate students from all over the U.S. and U.K., we hear from

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  This is my final paper for Science Journalism, a science writing class I took last semester. Reading the literature and interviewing people for this paper taught me a lot about…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  largest city (pop 55k) in the state and located near its geographic center

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  (Espionage and 20k), 5W!TS does production and effects work for museums. You

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011