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  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... students here who could build a giant flamethrowing exoskeleton to invade

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own ... participants. My actual job was to work on the app used to collect data. It ... -end. Front-end focuses on the parts of the website that you see, and back

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  very familiar to a lot of people on campus simply because of how much he ... some food before my Uber to the airport got to campus. So after a quick ... like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  figure out where on this diagram we want to fall. But now, with a year into ... on a lot more groups projects, we'll be able to have more discussions ... Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• 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…

  

  wouldn't have to keep reading as my stomach sank. I decided on a restaurant ... was waiting on... but that's a story for another time."]EA decisions ... , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to ... dog didn't know what was going on but she was down to party anyway. S.A ... when I tried to check on pi day, so I went to take a shower. While I was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... used a ladder to get in and out of bed. Rather than the conventional four-legs-on ... roommates, Dayna, wanted to put on a tea party for the house. I wasn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later ... old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  snap on your way to a party, ending in a hug when heading home, ending in ... I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... hope someone might be able to connect or learn something from a few of my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in ... Grand Canyon. I made connections on my new floor that took me to Haiti ... 't even know if I would be headed off to med school today. On a somewhat

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  to choose a major. Lulu on Course 8 and choosing a major Anna on ... thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... your resume. As a student here, you will have access to a variety of ... . Try to remember how lucky you are every day. 7. At least a few times

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  do psets handed to you on a plate, but rather on how well you apply ... forth. You tend to rely on academics as a sort-of pride because you haven ... admissions decision season is nearing, here's a bonus link to a page on the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not ... to make a long story short, my senior year, I decided to start a ... portions to some classes. Old buildings are gone, new ones have popped up

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  , and now all of a sudden I was going to see the President! On Thursday ... wasted on the Internet. A Tang is a measure of orthogonality to normal ... route Obama was going to take based on how clean the sidewalk was), but I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  nowhere to visit a friend I made on a train. I had a great semester off, and ... you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  prepared a resume, used MIT’s career office to get feedback on it, and ... room quickly and made it to the kitchen on my floor. It was empty. I ran ... on a novel. It got published my freshman year at MIT, and I returned to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... background science too quickly. Trying to please everyone here. (Here. In

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  compared to the classes in my major that i would take later on. but i saw a ... inside and outside the club, including when i went to new hampshire for a ... consciousness and hid there, refusing to fade into irrelevancy as i started a new

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  minds. It is not a cheap, easy, or quick thing to do. It requires ... it's really hard to learn something new when there's a huge amount of ... subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020