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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  to be able to take pretty much any class, in any department, at any ... like working too hard in the class, you can take it on pass/no record or ... out to get you. They’re so kind, in fact, that they give you an entire

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  . After receiving the Marshall Scholarship to attend postgrad in the UK for two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my ... around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  who was able to get through the door you wanted to, or through a ... in you to move forward, fueled by your determination and goals ... We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... refusal to reflect on what is happening in my life, but it is impossible to ... summer camp i went to for two years back in high school, and each time i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... were strained to see what was about to happen. In a few moments the ... appear on the Great Dome in 1994, or when the Howe & Ser moving company

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  weekend to be over. Back in 2011, my host’s neighbor was an aerospace engineering major. Given my interest in the major I was curious to hear about ... 's possible and common to be so deep in piles of work that you will NOT be able

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

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be ... starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people ... , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  , and instead put in earplugs to focus. I didn’t just read recitation ... , making me feel terrible about how much I have to face with no energy or ... ’m somewhere between emotionally numb, about to cry but can’t, and in intense

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  asked him what he’d like to say to students in his situation, undocumented ... ,” he began, “and I’m extraordinarily happy to be in here, considering I ... arrest somebody, hold them in a detention center or a jail for an

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  , or that I have grown from it. That will take time to see though, and in ... , in March of 2020, I was the last person to leave my wing of Next House ... person to leave my wing of Next House. I rolled my possessions in a cart up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper ... for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no ... Cormick article so I'm not dying to see it at this moment. 8:28pm: Rebecca sends in

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn ... home and be able to work through the night. I work in my room, on my ... – so it's best to attempt more unimportant work, or at least things I can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  little descriptions (in case you want to pick and choose which videos to ... also pointed out to me in the comments that, upon skimming this blog post ... are planning around campus, mostly to steal food and/or provide moral

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in ... would want to play in college, and honestly, I hadn’t thought about it ... became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  in Constantinople.” Alas, Nicolas’ friends never got to visit. Nicolas ... given out to any MIT “graduate student conducting work in the field of the ... family to East Boston, U.S. Class of 1888 (graduated in 1889) Course VI

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... questions in education are to me. I’m still in a cappella. I still really like ... -dramatic “senior” solo to end my time in the group. It’s sometimes hard to notice

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... get caught up in the immediacy of the next exam or the seeming all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  them to elaborate on their interest. 18. In a paragraph or two discuss ... location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... , in perfect condition. I had no choice but to assume this copy of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022