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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  a struggle: their patent was for an "Apparatus for facilitating the ... disease") and Takeshi Makino of the Safety Detective Agency in Osaka ("for ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  in an applesauce jar. You look up an advanced course 8 class and ... required in payment for passage, and if the guest cannot provide it, an ... to an email sent to eecs-jobs-announce looking for a “technical

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  cracking. 1. Why and how I became an admissions blogger In eighth grade, I ... other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in ... an internship in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I'm pretty sure I was on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  , breathed in the summer Cambridge air, looked at the tree outside my window ... the kitchen, now in an even more Russian way, toasting the lives we ... . For five years that room was home. In August it will be someone else’s.

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  School’s done a first-rate job on making me feel like an outcast for it ... paying for their supplies, no one speaks up and an awkward silence ensues ... Ahh, the application essay. Why is it so agonizing for students

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  , I was looking for people in history with whom I can personally ... suspect they chose the name at least partially for the sake of an amusing ... hung in my room for all of senior year, complementing the greens and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  browsing Facebook for an hour isn’t a huge failure. In the big, big, big ... Messenger. I work for an hour, and then I’m lying on bed scrolling through my ... would look a lot messier. But let’s ignore that. In fact, let’s simplify

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I ... . I'm specifically looking at the role of My Favorite Gene (MFG) in the ... why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  wants to do that? When I do an info session for prospective students, I ... will get them to come. In my writing group we do an exercise when we all ... special arts program for his junior year. It’s because writing is hard

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  ="aligncenter" width="1504"] I intend to set the record for "most complicated graph in an ... we call floorpi. And on floorpi, I live in room H306, which looks like ... 've heard before, but not a person I think I've met. I looked them up in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

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

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... medical ethics (which made for very interesting conversation), art in Boston ... wandered around downtown LA for a while looking for food (a very common theme

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions ... work needed for this year, Chris had another producer in mind--Cowboy L ... asking around about rooms in Simmons, she let us use her room for filming

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  out of time for. I felt pain as I handed it in with only one solution ... and lashed out in an unforgiving sucker punch. The weekend I was going ... your max rep in an explosive, short-lived fury. Writing turns from

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... terrorist," they said in my mind the last time I was on an airplane. "She's hiding the goods in her breakfast burrito." The last time I was on an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually ... does anyone else remember when the internet looked like this? sorry can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  screaming for you in the stands of your final NCAA volleyball game, with your ... always be, and can be again in just under an hour of preparation time." ... culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  admission officers ("adcoms") are not looking for "standard" answers, and you ... 't worry too much. For the "Creativity" essay, I would encourage you to look ... into mere 250 words. In order for me to see what a 250 word word limit

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  looking for pictures to use in a Father's Day card) and came across pictures ... put up with me, and it would be an even bigger miracle for a full ... Know I Learned in Kindergarten," which has become a standard for coming

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it ... . Failure is inherent in risk, and risk is necessary for success. Applying to ... know you’ve put in a lot. Here is my deep life advice, for the next week

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... makes skype calls much nicer, it’s good for narrating what’s going on in a ... spaghetti in my bag. Notebook - For big notes. USB Battery Pack

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015