Student life Archives

MIT-Imperial Exchange: Points, Colors, and Math

July 25, 2017 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

[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 […]

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 […]

Annual CEE Research Speed Dating Day highlights diversity of research

March 31, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]The 7th Annual CEE Research Speed Dating Day brought together undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, research scientists, and faculty members to share their research and to inspire new ideas. This year, additional community members were able […]

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 […]

Undergraduates get hands-on research experience during TREX

February 17, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]A group of undergraduates conducted field research for two projects during this year’s Traveling Research Environmental eXperiences (TREX) in Hawaii. The students presented their research to MIT alumni and gave a final presentation to local community […]

Day in the life of a mini-UROP mentor and mentee: Josh and Stephen

January 30, 2017 | mini-UROP | ceemit

Hi I’m Josh Moss and I’m a graduate student who works in Professor Jesse Kroll’s lab studying atmospheric chemistry. Hi! I’m Stephen Duncan and I am a first year student interested in chemical and environmental engineering […]

TREX 2017: From MIT to Hawaii (Eventually)

January 13, 2017 | TREX | ceemit

[fusion_text]Every year, a group of MIT students and professors travel to the Big Island of Hawaii to gain fieldwork experience through TREX (Traveling Research Environmental EXperiences). The first TREX trip was held in 2000, and since […]