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

  

  to the process. At MIT, Sid is completing a double major in Biology ... For the past four years, Sid Puram has had a UROP in the renowned ... vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  It is summer in Cambridge, which means that: every morning I wake ... potted Cattley Guava is fruiting (in USDA zone 6!) it is time for those ... today in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is to help our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? This weekend is a tax holiday in Massachusetts. I sure ... out the details with the actors. Anyway, Stephanie is in a kind of large ... set online using our floor funds! My roommate Kunal is a communications

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  design.  In the form of a limerick. Mine was: I'd say that design is an ... course they'll in, they'll hedge a little; they might say "6, or 2, or ... weeks, I've decided that Course 2 is, in the words of Kirsten, super legit

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  you may know, legend says there is always a light on in the Green ... 't know, Independent Activities Period is a month-long vacation in January ... working.  And if there ever comes a time when there are no lights on in the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  . In this case, a picture really is worth a thousand words, so I'll let ... from right after Dorm Rush ended. We had a picnic in the courtyard, and ... . We had a roller coaster, in the style where one hangs below the track

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  who, in the 3999th comment, provided a link to this interview with MIT professor Henry Jenkins on Star Wars fandom: Henry Jenkins is perhaps the most prominent scholar in the country devoted to examining pastimes often deemed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  until 3am daily and 7-11 a quick walk away, it is hard to motivate ... 't overlap). Stick the tray in an oven on the lowest setting and wait a day ... hot water with honey and sesame seeds (throw in a touch of sesame oil or

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  hospitality"--Houston is a place of lawn chairs and film screenings in open ... thing I can think of is Taipei, after spending a month in Hong Kong, but ... -class beatboxers look like on a Friday afternoon in October: This is what world

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  many questions about making friends in college that I even wrote a blog ... anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in ... reputation, especially for us nerds. In particular, as a multiracial woman, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  foreign license only if I’ve been in the country for less than a month. But ... . Driving in Boston is terrifying. But this year, I finally ran out of ... York City after graduation too; as terrifying as driving in Boston is, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  This is a guest blog post by my dear friend (and first person I ever ... passenger train receives woefully little love in the US of A, but it’s historically played a massive role in the growth and development of this land. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Written Post Oh man my handwriting is atrocious

  

  a million times, because four classes at MIT is a full and very ...     Typed out notes in review: I wrote this two weeks ago I apologize for my handwriting Ceri's post is here I am also

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  it. In the center is a large Roman tile mosaic from around 115 AD of ... One of the things I love about the Boston area is that being a ... , historic home in Boston. Only the signs really give it away as being a museum

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  type of manufacturing system is called a re-entry system, where a silicon wafer re-enters the system with a higher priority each time it is processed. Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It's a 3 ... showed us a lot about 2-D structures in design. Cody from the Hobby Shop ... showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Mystery Hunt Puzzle A Taste of Things to Come...

  

  , you decide to return to your 14.01, for it is due in 11 hours. Luckily ... It is 2:45 AM. You have just finished your 5.111 pset. The ... molecular orbital diagrams. You still have a 14.01 pset to do, before the sun

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  've decided I'm in love with this place. A few thoughts about Seattle after my ... , has been delicious. The weather is basically perfect, hovering in the ... generally friendly. The city as a whole (as well as the Amazon campus) is very

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  is a Really Good Journal.) But anyway. Since the completion of the ... of the actin cytoskeleton, which is involved in learning and memory ... , you do the math. ;) I work directly with a postdoctoral associate in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.

  

  and technology developments on society. Featured in the documentary is ... cleaning spam from my inbox. Join your fellow Student Pugwash members in the ... 's own special theory of relativity. More information on the program is

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005