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

  

  in heaven. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending the Ig Nobel awards ceremony in H****** Square. The "Igs," sponsored by a bunch of Mensa ... answering some of the following questions: 1. Do people swim faster in water

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

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  without the constraints of pre-drawn lines to color inside of.  There are ... vegetables, and then suggesting that I might send the evidence of his misdeeds ... children, but at the end of the day they are generally heading in the right

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  The Maslab 2007 competition (the culmination of the class for which I ... of our noise. :) I played in the Assassins' Guild tenday game. My ... , as the same could not be said of 28 (out of 52 total) other characters

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  sit down with Richard Rusczyk and Dave Patrick PhD '97, two of the folks behind The Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The fantastic AoPS offerings ... about math, you'll check it out. The Art of Problem Solving folks also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... not grin at that! It really made the rest of the walk great (despite the ... group of about 10 cats, lounging by the start of the path. This was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  more than 2 months to no avail… One of the nights we wrote a poem with ... she made a complete 180 degree turn to face the shore. And as soon as ... that marked her nest. Here is a video of the event! We tried our best to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes ... all of my classes.  After genuinely considering changing my major at the ... field of Computational Geometry) are both wonderful lecturers and the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  , the sort of classes that are offered at MIT beyond the basic level ... 9 and course 7). Most of her course 9 classes have been of the ... and the obvious intersection of her two majors. It's also what a lot of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  with many of the parent events during the weekend it makes sense for me to offer some tips about how you can get the most of your time on ... Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  (See #2 Boston Adventure at the Institute of Contemporary Art here) As part of my weekly Boston Enrichment Trip, I ventured today to the ... quality of the printing, binding, or illustrations, the provenance, etc.” So

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  life of ridicule and belittlement, but I could be wrong. Anywho, the powers at be have begun to realize that nothing swells the ego of an MIT student more than proclaiming him/her as the master of something. I am

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  This past week was the first week of [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, aka the month of January where students can take a long ... the class started, it has kind of blown up due to all of the lectures

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  At the beginning of this semester, we were really unsure of what ... Computer Graphics, but it is unfortunately only offered in the fall. So, we shopped around for a few different course 6 classes in the first week of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of ... queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it ... two amazing days of skiing in New Hampshire - a bunch of the ESG kids

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please ... lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work ... of Facebook Marketplace. Once he acquired the gun, he began to take it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  the child of a well-to-do family in Beijing, by offering them a great ... educational press has been buzzing about the launch of Minerva University ... million dollars to found Minerva. The latter comes from the long list of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  Buick Regal — not the whole car but about 200 parts (which is about 1% of ... a great time and had some good crews (was voted EARC coach of the year ... in rowing. I cox a few times every year, always racing in the Head of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  old girl at nerd camp yelled at me for being part of the globalist ... blogger? The mission of the blogs is to help prospective students understand ... . MIT operates by setting a very high standard of admission to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  eyeballing my handiwork, I had built the table to within 1.3 degrees of level ... snagged one of the bikes for me. That afternoon, I came by to check it out ... detail: when I finished making the table, from 18 feet of steel rod, we put

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  tap dance break or something in the middle, and at the end of the song ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit ... metal-ligand catalyst via spectoscopy (5.04), finding the best set of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005