undergraduate student life Archives

Abroad in Israel: Optibus Opportunities

August 24, 2018 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

By Amy Vogel ’20 In the past two months that I’ve spent in Tel Aviv through MISTI Israel, I’ve had the unique opportunity to progress and grow alongside a company that’s doing the same. Since I’ve […]

Abroad in Israel: The High-Tech Tel Aviv Dream

July 11, 2018 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

By Amy Vogel ’20 After three great months living it up in Haifa at the Technion, I moved to Israel’s The-City-That-Never-Sleeps to live the modern-day high-tech Tel Aviv dream (well, for two months). Selfie on the […]

Abroad in Israel: Saying Goodbye to the Technion

June 11, 2018 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

By Amy Vogel ’20 I am writing this post while sitting at my desk on my last day of work at the Technion. I am sad to leave the Technion, but I am so happy that […]

Abroad in Israel: Halfway done

April 30, 2018 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

By Amy Vogel ’20 I am about to start the 8th week of my internship… it is crazy to think that my time at the Technion is more than halfway over! But on the other hand, […]

Abroad in Israel: HOT lane networks and exploring Israel

April 9, 2018 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

By Amy Vogel ‘20 I can’t believe I’ve already been at the Technion for five weeks; the time is flying by! I’ve just returned from a week of vacation for Passover, but the weeks leading up […]

Abroad in Israel: Settling in and learning the ropes

March 16, 2018 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

By Amy Vogel ’20 I have been in Israel now for about 3 weeks, and loving every minute of it. After I got off the plane, I got to spend a few nice days with my […]

Summer In Santiago

July 7, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

By Christine Langston I’m spending the summer (or rather winter in the southern hemisphere) in Santiago, the capital city of Chile through a MIT program called MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives). I’m interning with […]

Addressing rising sea levels in Venice: the MOSE project

June 21, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

[fusion_text]By René Andrés García Franceschini Night fell two days prior to our departure as my teammates and I made the trek to our makeshift classroom, on the opposite side of the construction site. The mammoth MOSE […]

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 […]