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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 ... question now is: was a baby ever delivered using this apparatus? For better or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  using his own intelligence and sweat of his brow. I would love for that to ... 've read, has also made Stark's best friend, James " ... for the name John Underkoffler, and write down what he is credited as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

   Credit For Reddit, when Alyssa and I baked a bajillion cookies and enticed ... undergrads and found out that people tended to use certain frameworks for ... -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my

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

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  than we'd like. But when you find that true fit, that perfect place for ... what the right fit felt like until I visited MIT in April for CPW. Long ... for other reasons—my host was already known as "the funny one" among

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  consistently to finish things to the best of my ability while making time for the ... For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this ... for a direction. For now, I’m just trying to embrace the unknown and let

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but ... to wear jeans. Nice things are for the early birds.   The easiest thing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . This is mostly aimed towards first-years choosing classes for their first ... , but look into classes that aren't on this list too. The best way to ... checks: what's your earliest class? Do you have time for lunch? How many

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... : She has, frankly, one of the best letters of recommendation I've ever ... fit for MIT, and I think the program she started is cool. I like her

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  LOVE to take but won't have room for. Entire departments I won't ever ... I knew that my dorm was supposed to be my home-away-from-home for four ... with your college family. This should have been as high a priority for me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  , for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my ... transportation. Once I moved to Boston I went to Wheelworks - the best bike shop ... bicycle has several benefits, especially in a city like Boston. For one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  couldn’t just afford to go to bed. Coffee became my new best friend ... economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to handle because I had a really weak background in calculus. For other

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  what's up FROSH: just waiting for a burger ME: yeah those burgers are ... is my fifth ME: child FROSH: i felt bad for not eating vegetables ME ... for other groups too FROSH: well ME: specifically mine ME: the toons

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for ... and nobody will judge you for it. So if you ever find yourself in need of a cry but don’t know a good place for it, I’ve got you covered

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  officers showed in you when they selected you for admission, it is not really ... it this far if you didn't have someone in your corner. For some it is a parent, sibling or other relative. For others it is a friend, teacher

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  special arts program for his junior year. It’s because writing is hard ... wants to do that? When I do an info session for prospective students, I ... some advice for those of you worried about writing, or worried about

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

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . BSU is constantly working for our best interest, the National Society of ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... the same for black people at MIT   It seemed to be something

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing ... been before (1-390) which is surprising, as for the last two years all my ... wasn’t something I’d be planning for in the short term. And yet, my last

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• 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…

  

  was waiting on... but that's a story for another time."]EA decisions ... could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... before her decision!"]enough,[/annotation]and they were, for the day of. I

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

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  eponymous book. Lewis first became famous writing Liar's Poker, a memoir of ... ? Of landing inside the best Wall Street firm from which to write the story of an age? Of landing in the seat with the best view of the business

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012