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  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  . From a simple man with a dog and a dream to Ig Nobel laureate... truly ... indeed write a posthumous entry if I had to. This is the number one song ... awards ceremony in H****** Square. The "Igs," sponsored by a bunch of Mensa

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  ’ve been getting occasional “it MiGhT snow… mAyBe” messages from the cryptic weather machine, and even got a very melty dusting a couple days ago. Fortunately, however, snow with staying power chose a weekend to finally arrive

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT ... decided to add an Early Action (EA) round for a couple of reasons - first ... , and second, it will allow us to cover pre-orientation/orientation from

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  pretty different. There are a lot more talking apes, for one. From August ... was...at least for a while. [visually_hidden]Transcription from ... had a bit of a lull in my art after I started drifting from MDZS

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  Abroad - dishes that incorporate apples (and/or pear) and originate from ... apples (and/or pears) An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away - swap a traditional ingredient used in your recipe for a healthier choice (you will have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  before I get hosed) after the internship ended. Over the summer, we made a ... working on a robot that could perform manual labor tasks, and I helped her ... movements. Jebby helped with a group designing a smart walker with crash

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  drive from campus). In the midst of observing Ramadan and searching for a ... canCheck up on people you haven't heard from in a whileDon't hold off ... process thing as they happen. But all of a sudden I'm at home again, with no

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  's resolution even from a satellite orbiting Neptune. Six days later, I pledged ... wrong. My battle with the p-set turned from a bloody warfare to a mildly ... your brothers. And because no one likes to eat from a grimy plate. We

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  we extract it from a vegetable or fruit. Here’s all that in vivid ... —especially if you are adventurous and try a DNA extraction from something new ... This past March, a few days after my birthday, I spent a Saturday

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  like a middle-age technology reporter. It's like Fight Club, or being a ... 'm friends with "MIT Engineers" on facebook, from whom I get the latest Tech sports updates (they also have a twitter). MIT News has a twitter as well

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  before it spun off to the sea. A cold, dry air mass from Canada blanketed ... from work, spending a few precious days with family and friends before ... Burlington area, which averages a bit over five feet of snow every year. While

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  did take a lot of pictures from the event, there is one that I think ... ' days of my childhood all in ways related to MIT. Exhibit A: TOMB ... Barracudas anyone? So I got to go to Tomb last Friday for a friend

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  from these cultural ���thought experiments��� about life in a human ... catch up on a few television shows, most of them being reality TV. While ... 't keep myself away from Bobby and Whitney's humorous episodes or Simon

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  finally got around to reading a bunch of articles from the MIT News Office, including one on some awesome undergraduate research. A snippet: An MIT ... , more than a billion miles across. Emily Levesque, a junior in physics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET

  

  and a Slack message from Petey appears saying, “Kellen, I need you to ... all could use a little support from time to time. ... ,’[/annotation]it’s anime. Can you do this for me?” And, with a tear in my eye, I looked at my

  • by kellen manning
  • December 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  from William A. Koch. Who is he, you may be asking? Well, from the MFA ... , chemical engineer trained at MIT, world-class sailor, and devoted father. A benefactor of the Museum, Koch is also a passionate collector, described by The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  !), but i guess its a welcome change from last years Sad Alt Music for 137 ... . Comments from me: how did petey manage to not listen to a singular new artist ... from the fall: N/A Favorite artist / Hours listened to them / Top song

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  research has shown these tests, in combination with a student’s high school ... informative and consistent measure of a student’s academic potential in a world ... students from across the country — and the globe — who we are confident will

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of ... twelve). It was a boarding high school a few hundred miles away from home ... MP3 player. It had a soundtrack from a Miley Cyrus Disney movie which

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  reads "Avalanche, veux-tu m'emporter dans ta chute?", which is a line from ... ] stayed up for 7 hrs to make a cardboard cutout and hung it from my bed in ... love stuffed animals), candles, and a fake diary from me confessing my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018