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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... centrifugal force. It's the force that makes you slam your head into the car

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  pretty epic list! What will you do to make it on the MIT 200 retrospective? ... costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for ... pioneer, and the second woman to graduate from MIT Robert Noyce '53

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  silence in my car or hotel room, I think to myself, “Would Flat Tim do it ... happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT ... Transportation Authority (MBTA) can take me, so 9 months into the job, I had to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with ... is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music ... -wracking, sweat-inducing mess. We the admissions bloggers have somehow done it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  already know how valuable it can be to learn to write and express yourself ... writing. The process of writing is what creates the ideas. Sure, it’s ok to ... ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... things I could do to find out what it's like to be an astronomer ... , and told Professor Dumbledore that it had inspired me to find a UROP in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  to navigate the world on his own before. It scared him too: And then ... I found it hard to breathe. In the play, Christopher pictures his dad ... supposed to be doing it. But what do you do when you don't know what to do

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  was so gorgeous it didn't matter that it probably makes little sense to ... to be charming things that you said are suddenly swarming it's easy to ... , it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay it's okay to be nervous

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches ... kill yourself with homework if you really want to try and emulate what it ... as expression. It's no surprise then to see this creativity transfer to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... , I was dealing with it: I tried to occupy my attention with other

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  . It's your chance to play whatever you want! Maybe this sounds ... straight up told me that I was going to do it. I practiced hard at home and ... mouthpiece so hard to my lips that they went numb and no notes came out. It was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three ... overall morality of a decision, but rather that it matters to your personal

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  . But it felt to me like they weren't founding a startup because they wanted their product to exist. It felt like they were founding a startup ... lifetime?" How many years before it'd have to be rewritten again? The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... expectations about snowboarding, and I have the bruises to prove it. My left arm has a bruise that looks like black death, it still hurts to sit down

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  my mom I got into MIT. She said congratulations. I went to bed. It ... MIT, and I know how it feels to be sort of "rejected," because even ... gosh darn it I was going to make that a damn good mid year report. So I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... monologue was incredibly long and circuitous. Cutting it down to 7 minutes was ... finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  formula. It’s like trying to explain poetry using calculus. It would take ... trying to pin it on anything else – race, gender, whatever – is just ... you come to MIT or not. I know it’s not a consolation, but it’s still

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  . I get it. I know it. I was there. I thought I'd make something to ... already? Take it slow. Current students are, expectedly so, so excited to ... it or not, we are going to biased on everything - preferred classes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  a year ago and it is equally true now. Specifically, I want to share ... the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle the assurance and sense of purpose that drove you to follow it. Do it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013