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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 ... of. Unfortunately, by far the most common scientific test for silk is ... of the question, given that they might be made of real silk and my mom

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

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  , dumping the gajillions of photos I shot before 3:30pm on Saturday. I can ... and center at the CPW Opening Ceremony. Three members of Alpha Phi Alpha ... think). The sound quality of the recording, of course, inferior. After

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  dancing. Don't know when I'll stop. It's a different kind of excitement ... so many other factors that the admissions committees would be looking at. And generally, the programs that I'm applying to accept around

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  what was previously new is now normal; that the wonder and mystery of MIT has been taken out and replaced with routine. Of all the feelings I ... Arthur a little more than two thousand times over the course of high school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  the start of one of the most curious experiences I have probably ever ... where we stayed in stilt houses characteristic of the Black Thai, an ... made this field the site of strange experiences. A late night stroll down

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  so into the hectic rhythm of classes, psets, extracurricular commitments, that "soon it's like, 'Oh yeah! The rest of the world! I forgot it ... to do. And I finally understood the appeal of a semester or year off

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  destroy the organic unity of this entry. Anyway, in the midst of this not the greatest week, I was thinking about limericks, which of course led ... the work of William Faulkner is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  . It's like a gyro, except the meat of indeterminate origin is slow-roasted for tons of flavor, the bread is some kind of wonderful crispy toasted ... suggestion of the correlation between smoking and death. A label might read

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Behind the Scenes of Thirty Pies aka i ramble about logistics at for a Very Long Time

  

  . 7 The Dawn of a New Project That is Not Good for My Academic Wellbeing Near the end of IAP, this email thread was revitalized, and after the briefest thought, I pitched an idea: What if we made 30 pies for the class of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 13, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  there's this psychological concept, gestalt, the name of which comes ... . but in a group of three, it gives the impression of a triangle overlaid ... brighter than the background, or even closer than the black circles. of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  Boston Festival of Indie Games! The 2nd annual convention hosted here ... things. (Also kind of humorous how the remnants of an 18.02 lecture are on ... and executive producer of the game Journey. Her talk reminded me how

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for nothing, after all ... magazine article that one of the admissions counselors had found. The article

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool ... engines and ran them at the same time: [] Here are some examples of pretty ... : [] LEDs mounted on the flywheel with a battery: [] Below are examples of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  . You get a sense of what it is we do at MIT, how we play, see the ... about your living group, the student groups you're a part of, your major ... living groups, all of the majors, 41 varsity sports, etc. Finally, divide

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  , got coffee in the lobby, and checked out of the Hyatt (still no sign of ... 're looking for. So this was a great school visit, despite the lack of student attendance. Alison was a wonderful host and gave me a great tour of the entire

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  time she crashed a bicycle in the mean streets of Boston, Ruth Miller was ... Hampshire on our dorm's camping trip. Having the option of a day hiking up ... no fear biking. In the 2.6 mile stretch of road from 77 Massachusetts

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended ... . Mishaps aside, the inaugural mouthful of thick wild mushroom gravy slathered ... -sweet BBQ sauce that makes me want to weep honeyed, tangy tears of the same

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  new person together, they almost always asks us at least one of the ... the time of the program, we weren’t sophomores yet because of the “conservation of frosh,” (meaning freshmen are still freshmen until the next class

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  (since last year.) All of the furniture has been moved to the edges of the ... paint imaginable is represented in the cluster of cans in the corner, and spare scraps of plywood lie around the floor, half-transformed into witty

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  1667a.html In the summer of 2007, four Harvard graduates will go to ... link to find out more! These are the children of the town of Jazmín, the ... country is one of stark contrast; some of the best health and education

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007