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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 ... beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the Milky ... birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... deliver so you can still have froyo in a warm comfy room." Crap. 2 ... over the next two weeks. Keep warm! or cool!- depending on where you are

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  how cutting a starfish up can give you more starfish than you started ... where we refine our own design skills in a series of increasingly complex ... , forming a pit in which it can trap and digest slightly larger creatures

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  you can cross the Charles on a footbridge. It's here that the Charles ... Doctorow: “it's like driving your car at night. You can never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... how to cook. It turns out that cooking, unlike baking (where I had far ... healthy, I can start figuring out how to help myself achieve it every night

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
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  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  "fight or flight" response, or it can just be a feeling like you don't want ... numb. A panic attack occurs when the anxiety gets too much, and can ... that people can cope with anxiety and panic attacks and get help for what

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
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  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  different from most other universities where you register several weeks or ... binding as regular registration. You can resubmit your pre-reg subjects as ... to take the class. You can submit as many classes as you want for

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  backgrounds, and you can’t discredit yourself solely on a standardized test ... won’t get into a place like MIT, so you should probably just take it off ... there’s nothing more you can do other than be yourself, be honest, and be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  made to generate a huge square wave (40 Volts). There's a part where you ... controlling fluorescent lights. Breadboard by Noah S. '10 Why, you might ask, does a fluorescent light need to be controlled? You have likely

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  nothing but positive comments: “You’ll get in; it’s you!” and “They’ll be ... ’s alright to be invested. If this is about where you will spend a good chunk ... : time, people. The people that have been there with you from the get

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ="help (assist) Help Desk (the place where people get help) desk (a verb, to desk ... suggests, a place where people could come to get help. I helped students ... . You can then look through the deck of cards, and you’re trying to figure

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  where you could become yourself, or the nebulous nature of young adulthood ... case you [annotation note='or you want to consume all the content at once ... Kellen Manning infinite corridors by Vincent H. '23 You always have

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  for one of my early blogs: I was a freshman then, and you can totally ... kids yet, but at some point, I will, and I don’t think I can get over ... weight be more reasonable? A duel perhaps? Can we just get several gigantic

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot ... cafe where I could get a cafe con leche (read: cappuccino, in the little ... are not in a restaurant where the owner wants you to buy an actual meal

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  enough questions or talk long enough, anyone can tell you something you ... What if you lived in a world that was entirely grayscale? Without any color? Perhaps you still have the ability to see color, but let’s pretend

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  wrong: you still can’t do minute math properly but you are good at math. I’m sure you have a lot of questions, but I can’t remember what they ... the kitchen. And there’s nothing you can do to stop time from passing

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
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  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  -ish form of art: yeah, I'd say any man who can get hackers to pull a hack ... such temptation. The thing is, as you might infer from the awards and ... . When I was taking 6.01, there was one day where I was hosed beyond belief

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  tell you their interests, or their hobbies, or where they’re from, or ... . Sure, I can tell you his favorite video game, or what student groups he ... up to called the IMO, which you can think of as the Olympics for high

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  stuff you can't work on aside from letting it fade from the collective ... where you're going (and that's something everyone says, so it's not very ... whatever career you choose, your success isn't measured by how much you can

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016