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

  

  , most of the tools would end up damaging the scarves in some way. For ... of. Unfortunately, by far the most common scientific test for silk is ... tools for characterizing materials. What if I just used one of those tools

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

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  /lab-based 3.032 (Mechanical Behavior of Materials). For some courses, the platform is the main source of learning. For others, it allows a blend of ... for online problems Charts and diagrams to connect class topics and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  MIT, this is a problem I wrestled for a while.  And I've learned that it ... winter break for a few days of ice climbing.  Temperatures dropped to ... .  Look, there's a reason I'm writing for MIT Admissions and not Vogue

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  in the sun for the last two days, and when I got on it to ride to work ... -off for the summer months. I just got back from Alaska. More on that (with ... apply. As per usual, we will primarily be looking for incoming freshman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  's name for its EECS department) lets students work at companies and use that work as material for a Master's thesis. The companies can be right ... after their Junior year working for the company, getting a feel for the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  any questions since she's in the MEng masters program, which is only for ... except for the computer major, the MIT undergraduate students aren't considered for graduate work at MIT, is this true?" In lieu of responding to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  where you use Arduino to code up a control algorithm for a motor on a ... . Theory of computation - 18.404 The basic setup for this class, at the ... for any instance of the problem? We need something concrete acts as an

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  floors like mine with strong communities, being split up for two years ... panic about our living situations for the next few months. My perspective ... days so that I’d have no regrets. For context, I live in Burton

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Sure, making up prior work was scary, but the deadlines for that passed ... the ear buds. Dimmed cabin lights are perfect for introspection. My ... August. I messed up at times. Looking ahead, I can imagine few famously

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up to random ... own feel for how you will do at MIT.  Sure, it's nice to maybe meet up ... Victoria will be staying with me!!!   Although Victoria and I planned for me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  dress up as their personal heroes for Halloween; some people dress up as ... literally, I dressed up as a piece of junk. As for accessories, I opted for ... laundry server for the latest news on conditions in Random's washers and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  cold shower for you and help you wake up: odds are, if you go to MIT, you ... sets up a mailing list over the summer (meant for sending out memos) that ... about deferring for a year, and here I am giving you information on how

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  signed up for this class out of the blue, not really knowing what I was ...  projects. After the first class, I was sold. I even passed up an offer to skate in a charity show the weekend we'd depart for Palestine. But this was an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  semester, I set up an appointment at the GECD office for a résumé critique ... an advertisement for Fall Career Fair on the back page. That means an ... up in the Z Center. Here's a throwback to last year's career fair

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  undergraduate hackathons in the nation, is opening up its internet doors for ... 've opened up their website, then you already started it! To continue, you have ... . Although, that would be an interesting idea for next year...

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  are dedicated to "catching up" on work and usually IAP and Summer are ... --and whip up some experiments at my total leisure. Aaahhhh.     Since I'm still here for a few days, my flexible family is just

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  never provide. Yesterday, instead of lining up at midnight for the Black ... memories and stories, the same way that a certain song can conjure up ... places in Yosemite, and swapped some old gear I had for other people’s used

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal ... about a test that I ended up not being in the right state of mind (let ... little rescued kitten. We are there for each other, and I am so happy that

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  started my internship. Sceptical about the title for this one I put off reading it and spent my free time catching up on a few fantasy books. After finishing The Wise Man's Fear I decided to pick it up and enjoy the beautiful

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  prices reduced up to 90% off. How could they afford to sell them for such ... unexpected details go a long way in raising your spirits. For me, that little ... ’s what I ended up with - I had to stop myself before it got out of hand

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012