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

  

  spectra that someone at the University of Tartu in Estonia measured ... % pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was skeptical of these scarves as ... they want. I was convinced that these scarves were made of some

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  Wednesday the Eleventh: Instead of growing up with boy bands and ... became friends with a bunch of theatre kids and was thrown into their world as a set designer for my sophomore fall production of The Crucible, and

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  A lot of comments from my last entry touched on the leadership topics ... . Thanks to those of you who read and commented! I then realized I shouldn ... last November. According to this survey, 85 percent of freshmen said

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  percent of top positions in mainstream media. In a Brown University study of ... aura of professionalism, grace, and personality whether she’s reporting on the economy or having fun on “The Today Show.” She’s actually one of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  previous posts why I decided to take a Leave of Absence this year. The event ... undergraduates were sent home last March. I was frustrated that so much of my happiness relied on my proximity to a university campus from which I could so

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  If you are reading this, it means I am successfully on my way out of ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to ... without the risk of failure Above all us, every upperclassman has one piece

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  again requested, this time by Rachel W. '16, founding President of MIT ... a variety of programs, seeks to foster a community and encourage ... the Boston Qualiflyer for Red Bull Paper Wings. If you haven't heard of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  , however, was this: Schedule: doable? Um, no. Regardless of how set I am on this illusion that I am working towards a dual degree at MIT, doing ... including both 5.07 and 5.13, but there's no avoiding that.) Some of you have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  Hi!! First of all, I'M SO EXCITED TO BE AN MIT BLOGGER!! When I got that message from the infamous King of the Internet, Chris Peterson ... in a lab at Stony Brook University back in New York, supervising my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  . None of the above are universal rules. Pass/No Record is a time to find ... Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting older at the astonishing rate of one (1) year per annum, which means that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  Chef, originated the role of Jean Valjean in the Japanese production of ... see him in the "Valjeans of the World" medley at the end. It always struck me as kind of odd that they picked "Do You Hear the People Sing?" as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  ;body corporate by the name of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology" (as ... MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  technological intricacies of the album's creation was beyond fascinating ... a kid, my dad would play me a few of the classics—Golden Slumbers, Let ... MIT: Regressions, where I saw footage of Timothy Leary, the father of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  Scholars Program at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China (that was a lot of ... HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged ... different. I normally spend a lot of time editing and crafting admissions

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

   "the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything." It ... We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to paint with all the colors of the wind. — Pocahontas from Pocahontas I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  over, trying my best to be legible.  I was 17, and I thought this sort of thing mattered.  It was the first year of the MIT Blogs, after all, and I ... wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those ... Engineering), probably the most stressful semester of my life. I was lucky ... (which involves a personal statement, a plan for finishing your degree, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is manageable, but only if you are not in 10 other activities outside of classes ... be the presidents of clubs, play sports, and sleep. Everyone hits the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  were getting a master's degree by the end of your undergrad studies and ... annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS ... both the single and dual moguls portions of Sunday River's Bust 'n' Burn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... , completely out of breath *TA passes an exam along* *gets mad at self not for not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008