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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and ... University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in ... mandating that children should not believe in Darwin's theory of evolution any

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

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  . I live a 5 minute walk from Newbury, one of the most iconic streets in ... [annotation note="Like many others, I didn’t know a lot about what being in a ... interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... month ago at his nursing home in Missouri. There’s a lot that I could say ... curiosity, mentorship, gratitude, and living a good life. A lot of lessons I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are ... . I have been aware of race for as long as I can remember ... , and I could see it. MIT itself provided a sort of grayscale world in a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  describing the content, I’ll tell you about my classes in terms of the free ... A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It ... huge tubs of Toscanini’s ice cream. Back in our original meeting room, we

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  element of ironwork to iterate 5 times in an exploratory project. I decided ... of the blade -- except in a few places, where I squeezed it a bit too ... I could get a measure of how much mass was in each part of the sword

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  other angsty 20-year-old emotion I can throw at them. Through all of it ... getting a B in the class. Another example, I skipped the majority of my ... they get here, and I like sharing with everybody the types of things I do

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard, thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  with the justification of "Fuck it, why not? I can just drop it if I don ... class alone, probably more than I did in my entire senior year of high ... big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  then we wait. In the meantime, I have plenty of other things to worry ... the events I am responsible for; giving a tour of Next House in ... , having seen the kind of welcome our community can pull together, I feel at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  theme song on the piano in the middle of the room. Nearby, an ... , colorfully explaining physics concepts that I could only scrape the surface of grasping. I soaked it all in and confirmed that MIT was for me. I was

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  % from all of that a cappella texting, so I sit in my room and charge it ... of this sidewalk -- those tall buildings you can see in the very back ... Head of House swipes us in and we grab food. I thought it would be a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -facing tables. To top it all off, it’s located in the heart of main campus. I ... , women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine ... 's admitted students was comprised of 48% women.  [annotation note='recently, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  least I experienced it that way. You're immersed in a fragment of the ... tethers [annotation note="or us, because I am in a distinct kind of liminal ... a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
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  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  or 8 “Hmm. In my personal life, I can see myself as Type 2. I think ... in a large amount of settings.” On being a Tiger: “I like the ... (n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a post about personality tests, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  -blue voice. A man in a denim jacket plays a green violin. "I can't feel my ... , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the ... in class. On Good Friday I have an exam. On Easter Vigil I am here. The

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  . The sophomore I taught to square numbers is one of a hundred kids in ... , this was a waste of precious learning time, so I stepped in for the class ... , I was in their shoes: a senior in high school. A couple of them are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  , pictures of rockets on the wall -- and I can't imagine he hadn't dreamed of ... in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... since each floor of BC has such vastly different culture...I can't imagine

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020