By Sophie Cohen ’21 Today it seemed as if we were adopted by an extended Italian family – the family who operates the Gruppo Canoisti Pontini, aka Area.3, in Sermoneta. They took us trekking up to […]
By Sophie Cohen ’21 Today it seemed as if we were adopted by an extended Italian family – the family who operates the Gruppo Canoisti Pontini, aka Area.3, in Sermoneta. They took us trekking up to […]
By Patricia Gao ’21 Trees yawned. Water sparkled. Flowers bloomed, in the midst of clouds of butterflies. All of it happened around, over, and through the remains of a medieval village. This was the most romantic […]
By Sophie Cohen ’21 A metal triangle hangs on the side of the Caetani Castle’s kitchen exterior, and the chefs’ children hit it with a hammer to signal meal times. This is how our day began, […]
Tchelet Segev ’18 MEng ’18 was profiled on MIT News for her dedication to service during her four years at MIT. Segev was a member of numerous organizations, including the Undergraduate Association Special Projects Committee (UA), […]
By Rachel Galowich ’18 and Jill Dressler ’18 Your two favorite blogging seniors are back! In our last post, Jill gave a great introduction into the background and significance of our project. With our next two […]
By Jill Dressler ’18 and Rachel Galowich ’18 Machine learning is a 21st century buzzword, but what does it really mean? When we sat down in Professor Saurabh Amin’s office to first begin discussing our senior […]
[fusion_text]A Mars City Design project from Assistant Professor of CEE and Architecture Caitlin Mueller, postdoctoral fellow Valentina Sumini, and undergraduate student Zoe Lallas, was recently featured on MIT News. The urban design project, called Redwood Forest, […]
By Christine Langston During my first week and my fourth week here in Santiago, I attended two ‘talleres,’ or workshops, put on by the Chilean Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunication (MTT, not to be confused with […]
[fusion_text]By Abby Harvey This year, my summer revolves around points, colors, and math. In the morning, I take the train from point A to B on the red line, and each night before bed, I calculate […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig For ONE-MA3’s last day together in Italy, we had a lot of work planned. We started the day by pulling our boulders out of the oven and taking samples of the interior and […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig The ONE-MA3 team had been excitedly waiting for our Egyptian blue to finish cooking and today we were finally able to take our mixtures out of the furnace and see the change in […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig Day two in Aramengo was dedicated to learning about the fresco-making process and creating our own frescoes. In the morning, we walked through the studio of Gianluigi Nicola, one of the town’s fresco-painters. […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig It was now time for ONE-MA3 to leave the big city and head for the hills of Aramengo, which I was very excited about. We climbed past flowers and trees into a town […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig A taste of the royal life awaited the ONE-MA3 group in Piedmont today. We were told that we were going to be starting the day with a set of lectures in a […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig On our agenda for today, was to experience the grandeur of both a castle and a palace! Our first stop was the Castello di Valentino. After a series of lectures from researchers […]