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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... hand shot up first. (In my boyfriend's words: "Classic Anna.") Marc ... , and to really let them know once their five minutes were up. Every

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

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  -Thursday: 7:30–Wake up, roll over and fall asleep 7:50–Wake up again, play a song on my kindle to wake me up (This morning was Rodrigo y Gabriela ... else during the regular semester. 4:00–Waiting is done! Close up the

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  of laws and ending up on various rooftops around campus. Hacks could be considered “pranks” at any other school but since MIT makes up its own words ... ago with some crazy Senior House people dragging a car up onto their

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  gets up with the first alarm anyway? 8:24 -- The alarm goes off again. I smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by ... ponytail and red ribbon. It's just that kind of day. 9:15 -- I hit up

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  -semester classes. And, normally, you have to show up and actually take them, or ... , you Will Not Leave This Bed, and simply do not show up for the final. As ... unfortunate ball, and have up until that point been doing pretty Okay in the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in ... absorbed into a world on paper. College has effectively eaten up the ... didn’t spend slaving over psets was dedicated to getting up to all sorts

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the ... understanding of it. After my final all-nighter I woke up to someone waddling down ... decided to break up. Half an hour later he came up to my room to collect his

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  , Winnie suggested we turn the drawing into a light up acrylic sign. And ... . After rushing back from Chipotle, I speedran a more cleaned up digital ... ="84995" image2="85346" /] While Winnie was setting up the LED strips, I laser cut

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  intend to see it through, no matter how ridiculous the titles end up being ... this didn't have to happen. Culture doesn't come up just because people ... have come up. Following the lead of the Galactic Puzzle Hunt, dozens of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  write up his experience as a project lead this year, giving you all a peek ... holding up speed squares as a reference, but it was difficult to completely ... to getting as many posts up as possible. Another thing we changed this

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  similarly barely-open-up-able door. "I should've re-taken the SAT like Sam ... ! Wherever you end up, whatever you end up doing, we're confident that you will

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• 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 ... ? Because on April 5, 1936, something profoundly strange was being hauled up ... pulled up the side of the dorm where I lived during my sophomore year. It

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
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  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new ... making stone-cold mistakes about all of them. we’re still growing up ... reevaluate your confidence and your dreams, and through that, you end up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get ... up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out...   ... start-up focused on mobile money lending in Africa" Cirque du Soleil

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  invited students from across Boston to meet up and connect. People from ... worship team for this event and practiced for like 20 hours leading up to ... describe life groups as the people that you do life with. You meet up once a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Twitter feed. These days feel worse. And these days, they string up ... don’t immediately start the day at 100%, nor am I able to do work up to ... . I can’t really work when I’m hungry, which is when I wake up. And I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  up and down in the water. My classmates and I were in a pool shallow ... 's all I could focus on. But I did it anyway. I bobbed up and down once ... much harder to get up to the surface, and that's really inefficient

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  long: 9:30 AM: Wake up, particularly early because no class until 12 ... writing this just now I got up to clean my whiteboard, and then thought ... Matt to shimmy. 11:32 PM: End up dancing with Matt. 11:45 PM: Decide

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  , catch up with mates, go out on friday/saturday nights, or is the lifestyle ... cheerleaders were talking about them at practice. Isa dressed up like a bunch of grapes, while Robin dressed up like the orange Fanta girl. The only guy on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  . I packed up everything I owned into cardboard boxes, packed up all of ... person to leave my wing of Next House. I rolled my possessions in a cart up ... coming up, but I did my best to keep them small, and focused on spending a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022