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  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  pockets of DNA. If you imagined the sphere as a beach ball, the pockets of DNA would be about the size of a ping pong ball and the air in the beach

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  that is literally thousands of degrees hot. You also learn how to "gather ... long sticks that you put glass on the end of, but we'll get to the ... attached as a long string of glass that attaches to the lip opening as you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  about 1,000 degrees, which I would have to deal with for the next month or ... had no clue about the concept of Mass Ave (long street, keep walking ... around again and made the long trek from Simmons to campus. There, a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  entrepreneurs. It’s a 2 ½ week long, full-time workshop that touches on everything ... graduates panel, which was composed of young founders who were not too long ... -educated engineering or business experts with advanced degrees and significant research

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  look through a rather long list of names, degrees, and job titles ... my sister met me at the Los Angeles airport and before long, I was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  things didn't work out because of covid. I chose Germany because of my long ... , home to the Freie Universität Berlin. The university buildings themselves ... meeting with a page-long list in my research notebook of things to try in an

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  this thing in a really long time. Part of it came from my own thinking ... started MIT, I never once expected to stay here for this long (partly ... took that long nor did I ever expect to go to graduate school). When I

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  't injure myself again, but it still just ended up being a long, long, long

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  Hi! this is going to be a sorta long blog so here’s a tldr: I went to Italy to do some light research and travelling, stayed in a castle ... rice. We spent the rest of the day at the beach. I was initially whining

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  state of frenzy, this is a state of unfounded clarity--on my emotions, on ... have and ruin it spontaneously on a whim, because every little state

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  elementary school. i was never good, but at some point i got to the state where ... without looking at the keyboard. this is a wonderful state to be in because ... future in a way that worsens your state of mind or comes at the cost of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing ... 's cookies at the state fair. Studying at Caribou after school. Crying in my ... personal items. It feels like I exist in a state of impermanence, with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  before called "Ocean State Job Lots." We had been so spooked and ... way through the parking lot to Ocean State Job Lots, which basically was ... purgatory-like reality that is Ocean State Job Lots and, more specifically

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  degree to anyone -- masters degrees aren't really all that useful or common ... another university." As for whether you'd get rusty on school stuff, you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  Mindsets Orientation was followed by Rush, a week-long event in which ... freewill and a deterministic universe. It was just one of those things people ... ADPhi, playing Rock Band with brothers for long, late stretches of hours

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  down and instantly get my degree?? 9/9/21 My friend sent an email to ... of information. Long, long story,  starting with housing losing my ... longing for sushi at 11pm in the student center, but your only option is to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  this university since childhood. And now I am about to enter my sophomore ... (idk the number). I am attacking my degree with a breadth-first search ... degree to be (6-2? 6-1? 2A-6? 6-3?). To be transparent, this approach has

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  that every MIT degree is made equal, whether that means a 5.0 GPA or a 3 ... degree, I ultimately decided it was something that made me unhappy and I only wanted to do a partial computer science degree, meshing it alongside

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  , so I don't know just how universal everything in this blogpost would be ... income and there's a statistic that states that more than 90% of MIT ... states. I've personally taken trips to New York and New Hampshire with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU! GOT! IN! Come hang out with us in the comments, you all star! And—more importantly—celebrate with your community and loved ones. It won't be long now until we get to meet you in the Class of 2030 Discord

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2025