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

  

  or in syrup? 2. What internal pressures are observed upon penguin ... Comm meeting in late September to allocate the preciously limited funding. This ... faster in water or in syrup? Professor Edward Cussler won the Ig Nobel in

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

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  introduce people to each other, or reach out to people interested in certain ... ", leading with a question like "what does it mean to be you?" or "what ... essays, splaying my life story to strangers in interviews, and thinking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  an upperclassmen down the hall who liked to study in one of the ... , fans who ventured to Manchester in the storm for the Monarch's game on ... my sister?" So thus far this holiday, I've been to two games in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  obvious or made careless mistakes in lab, because I was supposed to be the ... apply to in the fall, mostly because I had no frame of reference for which ... events led to me, a high-schooler, getting the opportunity to work in a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  room or outside to the fort that is beginning to be built. The floor has ... shall be eaten." or "Wear Shoes or DIE" The cast: The EC rush chairs, in ... they best fit in. This freedom to choose where you live was actually one

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  ? Instead I listened to the new Muse album (go buy it now) and found a solo in ... in a nice piece of sheet music. I looked around on YouTube to see if ... Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  organization in Philadelphia, and I ended up getting a scholarship to M.I.T. I ... school in that area. It was a dream I had to go there. When I was just ... percent of the research fee Тƒо in advance. To my amazement 12 companies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  know how to write HTML, more or less, but I didn't feel like it.) FYI ... 't relate to the content of the department or the time period it was ... -- after all, the actual words given to nouns in spoken languages are also a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Oxford comma advocate.  Gotta stick to some principles in life.) And so I ... , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by ... have a sense of what direction you want to go in, but don't let that wall

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  does she get to stay in?" or "She hit it too hard" even though it was ... usual pork belly in my Miso ramen, though). We then went to Nike to buy ... . It was cool to view the different representations of searching in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  OMG. Bikes are amazing. So, I'll admit it: I'm stubborn. I like to say that I'm "tenacious", but what I really mean is that I am set in my ... was totally wrong about bikes on campus. I've always walked to class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  , abbreviation or acronym), giving campaign advice and showing up to watch my debate. He could relate; he used to be UAVP himself! In fact, he was Matt ... that you can decide for sure which one you want to live in - I know you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  suave men and dashing secret agents coming in to disrupt a drug cartel or ... 21 = Vegas + MIT kids. Me = born in Vegas (seriously) + going to MIT ... 's important to note that basically in terms of applying to grad school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  extracurriculars, the negatives and the tragedies all add up to be, in a way ... them all away. I went to a new counselor in the morning who taught me ... this with anything. I like to count. When I'm near flowers or a plant, I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  squeezed lemon in your fridge, which will dry out as the hours go by. Or, the ... else you can do with a microplane? Buy fresh parmesan, like in real ... .[/annotation] Grate fresh nutmeg in your Alfredo sauce, or in your baked goods, like a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  castle I plan on expanding. I want to buy her a crown. Making Time for ... full-time job for next year. Ahhhhh the stress!!!!!! To end this post in ... to be a real person. Like a real person who pays bills. But then I paid

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  inventory or past events, to scour the room and just do really cool shit in D ... bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I ... character creation. In fact, I used a lot of D&D resources to write a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  . On bad days, I have to go out to buy a salad (or eat human food that ... to fun locations, like Chinatown or the North End (“Boston’s Little ... that we have to study the material on our own, or attend make up lectures

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  with free food you want to go to in your CPW booklet. A sleeping bag, and a willingness to sleep in things that are not beds. Not homework ... stop by Random Hall (and I happen to be home, and you recognize me) I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  ! ;) Diana: in the 80s i think, they used to throw a piano off the roof like ... work at Diana: it's a really nice place to work Diana: and in the ... Disclaimer: I don't actually live in Baker, but way back in 2003, I

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006