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Japan Adventures: Structures

July 25, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Eric Wong The Japanese aesthetic is unmistakable: minimalistic, functional, and balanced. And the ambience it creates equally distinct: calm, peaceful, and soothing. The parts of Kyoto built in the new millennium represent a nod to […]

MIT-Imperial Exchange: Living and working in London

July 18, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Milani Chatterji-Len This summer I am working in a research lab at Imperial College of London through the MIT-Imperial Exchange. The program, which strengthens the relationship between Imperial and MIT, sends students from across many […]

Japan Adventures: Transportation

July 18, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Eric Wong In my two months in Japan, the one aspect of Japanese culture that seems to permeate into everything is the pursuit of perfection. Life in Japan, as seen in transportation, is inseparable from […]

Japan Adventures: Kyoto

July 12, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Eric Wong Kyoto is known for its seemingly endless number of shrines and tranquil natural sights. While this is undoubtedly true, it is also very much a city and that’s where the charm of the […]

From fieldwork to the big screen

April 25, 2017 | News | ceemit

[fusion_text]“How can we reduce the environmental damage that agriculture so often causes and support the livelihood of farmers, all while continuing to feed the growing world population?” This question was central to the winning entry at […]

Project-based lab class equips students with skills for a lifetime: A look into 1.101

April 13, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

[fusion_text]By René Andrés García Franceschini It’s almost a month until the semester ends, and all four teams are fully immersed in their final projects. Our materials took a bit longer to arrive, so while we have […]

Drawing inspiration from Roman structures: A glimpse into 1.102

April 5, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

[fusion_text]By David Wu In The Ancient World: Rome (21H.132), a Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) class I am taking this semester, we recently studied the last 200 years of the Roman Republic. We learned that […]

Inside a Course 1 UROP: Tackling large scale problems using imaginative solutions

February 28, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

[fusion_text]By René Andrés García Franceschini Some of work done here at MIT that is so outlandish, so “out there,” and, quite frankly, so bizarre, that it’s hard to imagine that work being done anywhere else. Coming […]