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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is a struggle: their patent was for an "Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the initiation of a two-year renovation plan, but house team was still emailing us ... , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s, no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  've spent hours at a time like this, discussing topics ranging from Computer ... , let's be honest here for a second. There are plenty of very respectable ... 's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very ... connected them. On the door to the basement stairs I saw a poster advertising

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference ... a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... give you written feedback and a preliminary decision based on the current

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds ... ; Yes, that is a Ford Model T, hanging from the roof. The car, which

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be ... . There's even a word for the small droplets that fall through an open

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  !!) with a minor in Applied International Studies and concentration in Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... last year (junior spring). Long story short[er], I wanted to be a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we believe that every engineer has a great idea within them. We had a Hackathon last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... , my auntie wanted me to take a nap. She said, “if you don’t go to sleep

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... ’t make it on the first Wednesday, but… -- ONE WEEK AGO -- A week later I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... . Basically, 5.60 was a hedged bet, and as I hedged, time passed, others grew

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  units of my floormates but I remember a few. A Tang measured orthogonality to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor ... excitement, Prof. Grimson is a wonderful guy. He's incredibly fair and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights ... from my MIT education just because of my breakfast condiments. "She's a ... mechanical engineering. I'd never taken a final before winter break or got out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the ... of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT.nano where I immortalized one of those pictures as a solar cell! [caption id

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I ... embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... them, I promise :)))) what makes a study spot attractive? I started by

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  ’re walking in. I spent a few evenings last summer and this winter so far ... (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of ... on the right. Zooming in reveals a snowman and a snow dalek in front of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012