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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don ... beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the Milky ... fabulous dancer. I can't sing, or dance. So, my contribution was to wave my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  College Confidential: You know, I get sick of college admissions officers ... getting divorced, your house burning down, your girlfriend cheating on you ... having known you. If you've had an interview, I get to read about how you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  , and then fell behind again after getting sick from the flu shot ... I need to be, something I need to be doing, but there's no way to get ... stealing the chalk so the professors can’t lecture upside down gnomes… It

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  also really wanted to learn how to lift weights and Get Buff (so i can ... with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... get to classes and things happen along the corridor! which is why i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  binding as regular registration. You can resubmit your pre-reg subjects as ... that will take pre-reg status into consideration when deciding who gets to take the class. You can submit as many classes as you want for

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  pronunciations are the least of your worries right now. Another can of lingual ... I can understand this paragraph. After confessing this to myself, it ... “run away from this as fast as you can.” Ex: I hear that East Campus

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  and fitting in, freshman year can be overwhelming socially. Especially ... . It’s so easy to get FOMO - fear of missing out - nowadays because our ... architecture to media/journalism.  But of course, you can’t possibly always know

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be ... neurons. So that's my boring story of the week. If you want, you can ... band every week. As you can see from the weekly schedule, there's a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  groups looking on. I think that gets you caught up.) Adam and I got ... wedding receptions, there wasn't much of a discussion about where we would

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  smooth, rapid, pace of comprehension I know at my peak I can process, but ... say I can’t go to this event I had said I was going to, I do it, because ... things that I wanted because X, Y, Z person was why can’t I? Because I’m me

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  accomplishments in soccer, you can tell that these women are not only extremely ... full schedule during soccer season actually helps her to get more work ... largely about showing high school students that MIT can be a great athletic

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  essay for the Toast, "it never gets easier, you just get stronger," which ... Kiyoe."]where I can find a gym.[/annotation] In March, when everything ... challenges keep me grounded too. If it's raining, I can't lift, and I have to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. - Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the data I painstakingly recorded turned out nonsensical: ‘Please, get me out ... . “He’s alright Billy, he can stay. Give the lad ‘is key!” My room looks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  heart thump, waiting… Things didn’t get any better when I arrived at the ... happened at the same time, from shenanigans I can only hint at, to ... thinking of majoring in? Person: Sorry, can you repeat that? Me: What

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  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.

  

  * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve ... or humanities (though we suspect we just didn't get a lot of humanities

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  Italy (which means I had a hard time getting myself to go every day) but ... strange but in the short-term, this minute, I am glad because I can sit here ... can be recalled but never relived. I am grateful to the students, the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• 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 ... a challenge, but if you get bored at around 3 or 4 minutes (as I think

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

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... , and many more, simultaneously. As such, the very idea that one can ... , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024