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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  fabulous dancer. I can't sing, or dance. So, my contribution was to wave my ... a book for my troubles. So, now I can officially say that I have been ... can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I ... website. 4:15am: For luckily only the second time this term, I didn't have ... As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  Right before school started, I sent out a survey to all the dorms asking what people’s favorite classes were. I received 130 responses ... Class Year I forgot to add class year as an option on my form, and by the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
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  Train Coming on navigating

  

  flow". But following a sequence of steps? That-- that I can do. And these ... how I know I can do these things? Look at all I've already done." As if ... : "Does that mean I can do anything, you think? Does that mean, I can do

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
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  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other ... ="water-ballooned, anyone?"]any other painful form of water you can think of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be ... certainly can't speak for all schools, since I have little personal experience ... someone whipped their shirt around their head and declared, "YOU CAN TAKE

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  reminds me of something David Foster Wallace wrote, which I can’t for the ... ’m around enough that I can actually get to know everyone, which I’ve really ... I thought, since my last post was actually quite uninformative re

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

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  to ring sales, and purchased our rings! I can't wait to get mine at ... 't immediately say yes, but rather asked if I can have time to think about it ... outfits. I headed out to eat dinner at McCormick exactly at 5pm so I can be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
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  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  Muji and get a fresh notebook just so I can fill it with more writing ... , carefully revising every sentence so that I can communicate it in whatever ... can coexist on the same timeline. Every time I board a plane, I can

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... . Sure, I can tell you his favorite video game, or what student groups he ... when they find out I was a national finalist, I can feel their respect

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  mentioned in his last post - "I actually do agree that the best thing you can ... Flash back to four years ago from this upcoming March 14th. I'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  interstitial fat around the gut, I unrolled the intestines as carefully as I can ... sprinter down the hallway, and can probably spot a fly a building away. He ... stinkiest little cat on hall and we love him. Anyways, one time, when I found

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  the time I got home. Some days, you just can't do it, and it's not a ... . But I've been learning there are some things you can't fight, like the ... , was "hugged my mother more." It's so true and now that I can't hug my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Admissions office. Hmmmmm, I write for a website that prospective students read ... is the "Ok, which multi-millionaire can I tell about my battery ... you the specifics because I took notes and you can listen to it yourself

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  smooth, rapid, pace of comprehension I know at my peak I can process, but ... say I can’t go to this event I had said I was going to, I do it, because ... things that I wanted because X, Y, Z person was why can’t I? Because I’m me

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I ... reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
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  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  to tell you all about it, but I can't just yet. Very soon though ... . Looking back, I can relate to so many of those stories, and I'm sure many of ... First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  classes I've taken, is what I can do. I can code, if not terribly well, in Scheme, Java, C, or Assembly. I can wire some simple circuits (I bet I'll be better at that after 6.002) and solder. I can use a drill press, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  fact, I feel confident because I am alive—the fact that I can see colors ... willing to make time to listen, and to support them as much as I can. Since ... are going through a difficult time when I take study breaks, can make a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
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  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  'll see what I can do about that) admissions blogger. I think that means ... here), and generally what my life's like (so that you can, I don't know ... still can't wait for next Monday when I turn this lump of three

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009