By Anna Landler ’22 I think that I just received arguably the best lecture of my life. There is some serious competition – I had Professor Eric Lander for 7.012 – but this lecture is certainly […]
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By Anna Landler ’22 I think that I just received arguably the best lecture of my life. There is some serious competition – I had Professor Eric Lander for 7.012 – but this lecture is certainly […]
By Shannon Wing ’22 When making the decision on what to do with my summer, I had two requirements. Number 1: Work within the field of sustainability. Number 2: Be somewhere where I could hike and […]
By Shannon Wing ’22 Hello! Two weeks ago at around this time, I was waking up to my new neighbor friend tapping me on the shoulder saying, ‘we are here.” I had somehow managed to sleep […]
By Sophia Mittman ’22 While I’m here in Italy, I have been completing most of my research at the Museo Egizio of Turin, which is home to the second largest collection of Egyptian artifacts in the […]
By Sophia Mittman ’22 Even though the bittersweet end of the ONE-MA^3 program has been rapidly approaching, our pace of completing research has kept at a quick clip, if not even faster than it has been […]
By Sophia Mittman ’22 We all know the story of Night at the Museum, and many of us can admit to fantasizing when we were younger about what might happen if artifacts of figurines and mummies […]
Sophia Mittman ’22 It has been quite a difference to go from the narrow and bustling streets of Rome to the long, wide, and French-looking facades of Turin with the Alps peeping above the city in […]
By Naomi Lutz ’22 We first learned about Egyptian Blue the first week in Sermoneta when we used the pigment to make our frescoes. We knew little about it other than that it was the first […]
By Sophia Mittman ’22 In the past few days we have learned about some of the major networks that Romans constructed such as roads (like the Via Appia) and aqueducts (like the Anio Novus), and indeed […]
By Naomi Lutz ’22 On Thursday morning, we packed up and left the castle after having spent eleven nights there. We were sad to leave the comfort of the castle but excited to visit and stay […]
By Naomi Lutz ’22 We checked into our hotel in Rome late Saturday night and our first stop was, of course, gelato. The gelato place put melted chocolate at the bottom of the cone, making it […]
By Ben Bartschi ‘22 The Castle of Ninfa, which we digitally reconstructed using phone cameras, drone pictures, and a technique known as photogrammetry “To infinity, and beyond!” Buzz Lightyear’s catchphrase is recognized all around the world and […]
By Sophia Mittman ’22 Overall, our trip in Terracina is a short one. Today was the only full day we’ll have spent here, but it was jam-packed full of exciting archeological field work. In our four […]
By Sophia Mittman ’22 A short night of rest and our bags packed fully once again, we said goodbye to Terracina and made the trek to Pompeii by bus. (Fun fact that I learned: Pompeii with […]
Marcin Hajduczek ’22 “Visitors are reminded to cover their knees and shoulders, and that photography is strictly forbidden,” chimed the robotic voice over the speakers. It was drowned out by the excited murmur of a flood […]