Let’s get this carbohydrate?
an appreciation blogpost for bread + quarantine exploration of kitchen biochemistry by Sangita Vasikaran I saw this a while back: Mood. I’ve always enjoyed baking and cooking, but during quarantine,...
View ArticleTerrachip PALS – Designing a project
Written by Rachel Shen and Janice Tjan Developing a project is difficult, but keeping a project going after moving off campus due to COVID-19 is even trickier. What does developing a project look like...
View ArticleOn my first ever 125 participant class
Consider this as a story of how education changed after the lockdown in the eyes of a teacher (who is also a student), as well as an appreciation for one of the biggest student-run clubs at MIT known...
View ArticleThe seeds for my current path
By Rachel Shen This IAP has been unusually long. As the winter months stretch on, blending IAP into the two-week gap between the end of IAP and the beginning of the spring semester, I’ve found myself...
View ArticleMajor Confusion: or, What’s in a Course?
By Rachel Shen At the end of their first year, MIT students declare their Course (aka major). At the end of my first year – and to some extent, even now as a Junior – I was still unsure. I was...
View ArticleBiomaker Biological Buddies
Inspired by Cami M’s MIT blog post on blogger pets (https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/blogger-pets/), here we asked to share the biological organisms Biomakers are taking care of. Be sourdough...
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