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  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could bring them back home after graduation. She was very excited about them, telling me how happy all…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  New month, new classes, new semester, yet still my cramping hand sitting across MIT’s campus struggling to write for more than 30 minutes during lecture. I’m taking three technicals this…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Electrical Engineering V-Day Doodles are you feeling the spark?

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 14, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. ’27, one of the first friends I made here at MIT and my favorite “homegrown massachusettsian”. (shoutout DEAPS…

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  It was inevitable. My MIT prophecy has been fulfilled. There was no path to nor desire for avoidance. I’ve started doing research.⁠14 At apparently one of the worst times in…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  The Summer Science Program (SSP), which is co-sponsored by MIT, is a 39 day summer program in astrophysics, biochemistry, genomics, or synthetic chemistry. At each campus, 24 to 36 rising…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  This IAP, I took pottery classes! Between class time, open studio, and one-time workshops, I threw on the wheel for an average of eight hours a week. Every weekend, I…

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  I FINALLY PASSED THE SWIM TEST!!!! 3.5 years late hehe

  

  right before battle with my cheering squad + diabolical swim cap goggles combo the moment of truth. let’s see if i can swim 100 continuous meters… I CAN!! I PASSED…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I have senioritis

  

  OH NO

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  I don’t believe in quantum physics. Yes, I know that all the math works out beautifully. And that no experimental evidence has ever disproven it. And that my smartphone –…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snake doodles🐍🐍 i drew snakes to start off the year of the snake!

  

  happy year of the snake!

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  A few days ago I got back from what I can only describe as a four-day fever dream. Here’s a diary of everything that went down during GELcamp… Day One…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  i’ve started collecting cds. i think part of this has come from wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel the weight of.…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  Today marks my last first day of classes (LFDOC!) as an undergrad at MIT. This semester feels particularly special for a number of reasons. Namely:  It’s my very last semester…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  barcelona, with casa battló in the background   If there’s anything I’ve learned from being here this long, it’s that when the weather turns and the gloom sets in and…

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  “My name is Paige, and I’m a bit of an optimist. Or at least, I try to be. … Beyond being an optimist, I’m a mathematician. Or at least, I…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  Somedays, I check to make sure my diploma is real and I didn’t just dream the whole thing. I get a little bit jumpscared when I get an alumni newsletter.…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  I’ve been stuck in the same dungeon in Metaphor: Refantazio for the last two weeks.  The most frustrating part of this experience is that every time I turn the game…

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  zero. alan proof of life (credits: Arun W. ’23; Eric Z., Harvard ’23) So, in spite of it all, we’re still alive, and we’re still writing. You can’t stop us.…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  Dear Reader, I’m writing this in the WordPress portal and this is an absolute blast from the fucking past. Can I open up by cursing? Is that allowed? One time,…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025