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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 ... postwar Canada") The Kansas and Colorado State Boards of Education ("for ... disease") and Takeshi Makino of the Safety Detective Agency in Osaka ("for

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

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... . The audience that I used to write for has now graduated from college ... born and nominated for an Oscar. An entire person came into the world and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the most profound. Ever since I officially left the Admissions office this ... of my favorite poems, all about looking toward the future and starting

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  So you might be looking at the CPW schedule and thinking...   ... majority of attendees will be looking for friends, just like you! 3. Visit ... looking at the schedule. K: YOPO. You're only a prefrosh once. 13.A

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  nervousness, looking for distractions, forcing yourself to pretend like there ... nervous prefrosh. I hope you like it! If you're curious, here is the Ze ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  notice from looking around, and from reading the comments on some of the ... possible for me to get into MIT without foo?" The answers to these questions ... varsity sport for four years and won the team "hardest worker" award when

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  STEM”. I see the arguments for women-specific programs being adverse to the movement as a whole; I also see the necessity for them to combat ... campus for us: the Margaret Cheney Room. I've studied at a lot of lounges

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... . Adam designed the airplanes in Solidworks, optimizing for easy ... . Apparently the museum is a popular destination for MIT alums, because the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

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

  

  (sounds so official, right?). I made the decision to apply for the Rhodes ... applicant for a while, I was called into the room and led to the head of a ... wandered around downtown LA for a while looking for food (a very common theme

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  we really wanted was the big shiny silver trophy you get for being the ... doing something.  I worked out for the first time since our season ended ... motivator to push through the pain of every workout, to hold my plank for just

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  ungestalt, like looking at all the pieces and not seeing how they fit together, like missing the forest for the trees, like looking at the sky and seeing ... into the sealed container where it was stored; she remembers the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  at the start of each term appealing to the school for their project to ... week when the schedule is released) or a set schedule for all employees ... a great option for people looking for very passive income so that you

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  training and consulting services company. Here is the official course ... target, and then we fired practice rounds for the Top Gun competition ... the border between black and white. We had five minutes for five rounds

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  "][/annotation] open for the summer. The food there was, in my opinion, unsatisfactory ... “cultural shock” that the [annotation note="Short for International Student ... American food can be summed up in two words: [annotation note="For the sake

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part ... . Anybody who knows what it looks like will know that it’s the jankiest shelf ... with all my final exams for the semester and had been admitted into my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  a class. It's been a hard few weeks for my friends too, with the long ... 's also been a rough few weeks for the MIT community overall, with the ... for Your Thoughts", a compilation of the responses of members from all

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the ... for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no ... our chairman for telling us about the ice cream when we're not permitted

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  officially register for classes, plus ask your faculty advisor the many ... kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe ... !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  if extracting my physical energy as a tax for my sin. the entire month ... ’s working. i am one of the co-directors for hssp, which is an educational ... must be no problems at all with my life. look, i even have time for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  my thesis. content warning for the following paragraph, for mentions of ... available here (eventually a more-official-looking version will be made ... , officially, finally done with undergrad. i looked back at my notes and found

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018