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

  

  ”. Short of having her come to MIT and feel the fabric herself, there was ... to… [annotation note="Synthetic materials like polyester melt and smell ... of the question, given that they might be made of real silk and my mom

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  I like to quantify. I like magnitudes and metrics. It's incredibly ... , money earned and spent (mostly spent). In fact, I often conflate progress with quantifiable successes—exam scores, for example. And sometimes this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  10,968 hours. That’s 457 days, which is 1 year and 3 months since I ... driveway as I had done thousands of times before (driving was weird in and of ... ’re often the place of absolute highs and lows, where epiphanies have occurred

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  a headache and wake up still with a headache. It's the first time in ... about girlhood and math competitions--it's under my full name, and it ... -school girls who compete in math (and their peers); if you fit that bill (or not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  university just as much as its classes and campus. During the school year, I ... compilation of end of the year reflections from my lovely friends and amigos ... before summer’s end! After school let out, I hopped on a plane and flew

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  In the hassle of getting my life and graduation requirements together ... professor at age 20. He frequently cites his own papers in lecture, and we ... line of succession from my high school robotics club, and an ex

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  what seems ridiculously early for MIT students to go and exercise for 2 ... clothes are kept, where I spend 2-3 hours every morning and some afternoons ... -wee soccer in kindergarten at the ripe old age of 4 and since then I have

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  working in studio for five hours and I hate my life but it was awesome,'" he mimicked in a higher-pitched voice and some sort of everlasting smile. It was past three in the morning and I'd just returned home from Studio 7

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  's Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel, where he tests cyclists' positions and new ... his expertise in fluid dynamics to develop and, he hopes, patent his own ... productive," Blair, a former world-class triathlete and ex-NASA engineer, said

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  admitted to MIT are admitted to the entire university and may choose any ... takes me to the school and Yahoo maps. Interested in attending the Sept ... enter MIT "undeclared," and, at the conclusion of the freshman year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  sororities and fraternities at University X do have all of those problems, like ... goal of which is community-building and fostering social interaction. If ... had the preconceived notion that many sororities were racist, and I didn

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  -down triangle. Alan Guth, father of a theory describing the early universe and my advisor, stands in front of a blank board; he is grinning, hunched over, and ... cup and peers contemplatively off to his left. John Negele, who studies

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] College? It's about classes and professors and shirts and ties! What am I not prepared for? Nowadays, most high school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  I’ve been back on campus for about a month and a half now, and it ... the classics! I was only a ten-minute walk away during the summer, and I ... my possessions crammed into two suitcases and a million tote bags

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after ... tastes sour and another friend whose chair is comfortable to sleep on. a ... notes. most are easy to intuit but difficult to remember and retrieve at

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  equipment), and let's just say that the past four years were not kind to it ... -year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is ... it to run it and maintain it, but if there's anything wrong with it, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  life and what it's meant to him and offered to introduce me to his ... ones I didn't previously used to occupy. I've found myself laughing and crying and sitting in silence and really experiencing these new emotions of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  . They offered some anecdotes about their friends who were different people after sophomore year; more distant and withdrawn and on edge, more prone ... , well, I'd survived junior year of high school, hadn't I? And it wasn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  were loaded with burgers day and night and prefrosh roamed free across ... my dreams, and senior-year-me couldn’t be happier to be there. I was seeing campus through rosy colored glasses, and because I had already

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  Jedi Old Republic. We chatted about the state of New Hampshire and the ... , but I was [annotation note="and i absolutely still am"]in the trenches[/annotation] with homework and exams. I have a lot of half-written blogs that I want

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024