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  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  "Great, we have a time keeper! Do you have a watch with a second hand?" Uh ... , now how about the Ig Nobels? The Ig Nobels are a humorous offshoot of ... yourself "I'm ridiculous! I can do really absurd research! I should win an Ig

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  while you’re on a plane, yet so fast when you’re taking a final exam and all you want is a few more precious minutes to figure out that damn structure elucidation problem… Anyway. The point is I’ve done a lot of work

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  I've been promising for a while that I would post some pictures from Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in with my other entries. I spent the summer working as a research intern

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  thought that writing an interactive Buzzfeed-style quiz would be a fun way ... ?? what) A couple days later, I started the data analysis (instead of ... made a bunch of jank formulas to find each question's response

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  Google Earth Elevations we figured there had to be a better way ... doing work, we scurried off and spent a ridiculous amount of time looking ... Campus. But on the trip back a problem arose. Teri O. '15 had forgotten her

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  for Android and iPhone/iPad Alternatives: Any.DO, Clear, Google Tasks ... which I do a lot for my blog. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux ... 's larger than your computer screen. I use this a lot for the jobs I do in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  hang out, do their psets, and meet other people in their course. A few ... tl;dr: the google map of course lounges is here Here at MIT, because we're edgy and unconventional, our equivalent to a regular college

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  design a control system for a YF03 robot at Kawasaki Heavy Industries ... projects to improve life in impoverished communities at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico (to name a select few). In fact, a total of 80 Mech

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  Stealing a page from Melis's book, check out this awesome article about a UROP that appeared in yesterday's Boston Globe, New England ... cycling equipment. (Globe Staff Photo / Bill Greene) Mark Cote, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  It's always exciting to get not just a three-day weekend, but an ... have spring break a week or two earlier, meaning we don't get to see many ... they start the spring semester weeks before we do because we have IAP. So

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  playwright. Truth Values, written by Gioia De Cari in 2008, is a roman à clef ... -and-answer session with Ms. De Cari along with three panelists: Margaret Geller, a ... girl's romp through MIT's male math maze," and as neither a girl nor a

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  snow and too much packing effort. Surely there’s a quicker way to do this ... only mean one thing--IT'S TIME TO BUILD A SNOW FORT! Part 1: The ... want a quarry at least as big as a tennis court, with snow at least three

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  French House. Nous avons beaucoup de traditions. Towards the end of fall semester, we hold Dîner de Noël, a fancy formal dinner. We decorate the ... like 7 or 8 alums. In the weeks leading up to Dîner de Noël, we have a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  may see me zooming around campus on my white razor a6 scooter ... described as a golden retriever bounding between everything from scrabble to ... of them. i came into mit wanting to be a 14-2 (mathematical economics

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  do I mean by that exactly? Well since you asked, here is a list of ... a bunch of reasons like cutting edge research blah blah blah you all ... be as good.) The point is, IAP is great, you get a chance to explore

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  ), and Sacramento. Wow that's a lot of travel! This year, I'll be doing CMs ... announcing the 70 meetings we'll be doing across the country this fall. We call ... ). If you have registered for MyMIT, have replied to a letter/email we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  we do "A Salute to Walking," since we have sheet music for "Walk This ... MIT had a football game this afternoon against Worcester State. The ... was also my first football game as a member of the world

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  Hispanic Literature. We read a different book each week (Bodas de Sangre, La Nada Cotidiana, La Plaza del Diamante, El Beso de la Mujer Arana, and a ... imagine that I mix these two up quite a lot. Throw in de/di, se/si, and so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  -one painted by a '25, inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe painted by a '25, design ... easy to use, so I found a picture on Google as inspiration and went to ... example, and the murals that exist range from anywhere between a month and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  you do a tiny little bit more digging, you can find that the owner of ... such a small world. Large credit to Nine M. ‘23 for doing lots of this ... Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022