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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don't ... fabulous dancer. I can't sing, or dance. So, my contribution was to wave my ... couldn't make it*, **.) *The president of Belarus for "making it illegal

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  quiet, humble city. When I first arrived, it didn’t take but a morning and ... the free time I have well. I don’t necessarily mean squeezing every last ... country, which isn't saying much as Israel is only the size of New Jersey

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

  

  point now, isn't it? Nobody knows how they got the police car on the dome ... doesn't really like it when students break the law. How to become a hacker ... : Like any "extracurricular activity," MIT students make time. We don't

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  bike coming home from cheerleading. If you disagree... don't tell me. I ... smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by ... you don't get personal attention at research universities? I leave with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact ... mens et manus: mind and hand. It is a message stating that we don’t only ... society.  She also wants to be involved in students’ lives. I don’t think

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  beginning, and I have learned so much. Don’t get me wrong, though, the start ... places I want. I still swerve a bit at times (Why aren’t these two parts ... cap isn’t easily removed by little kids. Why is my car key shaped so

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my ... [annotation note="I won’t specify which, and I hope that you will never need to ... types of lipids aren’t as harmful as you think, anyways. But sugar

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a

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

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  undergrad. Similar to when I left my family in Denver, I didn't realize how ... preparing to miss it, I know I was right. Big transitions in life aren’t only ... different ways, left a solid stamp on MIT that won't be soon forgotten

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  , tiny doors, and secret gardens we aren’t allowed into. It is my and Cory

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  opportunities—for fun, for work, or both—than you have time for, even if you don’t

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  exhausting, doesn’t it? Now it has been more than two weeks since I left ... my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want ... to the new environment weren’t easy! I also received tons of emails of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  've since changed my email management strategies because i don't actually need ... , not the original, otherwise i wouldn't even want to breathe on it -- but

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  shot at the moon. You don't know what you're going to get. You just know ... can swim in a pool, but you don't have the skills to be able to swim as ... you won't have to pay off every month. The only downside is that you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  admissions officers won’t understand them, but also that we won’t like them

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  particular choice in the abstract, and even if we did, it shouldn't change what ... their prior conduct, or anything we wouldn't applaud amongst our own

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  'm super proud of this mural. Before MIT I would have said I wasn't at all ... -U-Haul-box collection of stuff (why). The left window is taped over because it doesn’t close

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  . Finally, we ended up with a beautiful prototype! (Don't forget- Beauty is in ... initially I wasn't too excited to spend one long day working hard in the shop

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  frugal reward of a warm fuzzy feeling of accomplishment and a free T ... , I sank into the oblivion of free T-shirts and sweet sleep, awakening

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  time swimming in Brazilian rivers or researching in Fiji. It doesn't get ... life goals? My parents said I couldn't take a job as a crab fisherman on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011