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

  

  there is someone at MIT who falls into that mold, it's probably Charles ... MITERS, the main student hackerspace at MIT. Specifically, he's best known for things he's made at MITERS. For example, lolriokart:  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword ... your life--how well you fit in at school, at work or at home affects more ... right fit at MIT until I talked with my CPW host Erica, the most amazing

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... things I would do if I could do MIT all over again. In my four years at ... (and no, I'm not at all Latina lol) by cooking with Spanish House which

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

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  of the intervening years. (basically, the backstory is that at ... tremendously at MIT kept a regular 10 PM to 7 AM sleeping schedule all four years ... own sleeping schedule....let's just leave it at that :) I never did

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge ... a PhD candidate in biological and biomedical sciences at Harvard

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and ... time I'm in the city. I spent my high school years making bagels at Slims ... ) Les Cline and Larry Horowitz picked me up at my hotel in mid-town at 7

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas ... demonstrations at the Florida Capitol and the White House, as well as meetings with state legislators. Their leadership has galvanized students at schools

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... everything? And to then pursue everything all at once? MIT’s answer was yeah ... sinking. Actually, that’s how I felt for my first three and a half years at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for ... kill before picking up Kendall '07 at the train station. It struck me as ... article ranking the top 50 world universities. They had us at #7, behind

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  motivation for what we did? Alan: …not really. But there is, at the very least ... it on Facebook detailing his route, the times he arrived at each ... the morning than he did, because he started at Mattapan at [annotation

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  . Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday ... Friday I turned in my last problem set ever at MIT. So the other day I was ... would be taking next term at MIT. So, I added a trendline in the form of a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines ... different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem ... science and anthropology. I have learned new ways to look at the world and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  life, or at least life at MIT, is like snowboarding. You may or may not ... that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to ... who were really really good at not falling as well. I wasn't one of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  when I was little (at 3 or 4 years old, my grandmother took care of me ... of course say, “we are Americans”. But when I looked around at my ... to play with. At that time, I felt there were only these two types, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... Truman's blog. A-ha! Hacking at MIT! There have been a bunch of entries ... you may have at MIT that involve hacks. And so with that, a quick primer

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM ... , rather than MIT directly. It's almost like that with being Premed at MIT. II. For some reason, people HATE admitting that they are premed at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . And just look at the two campus maps. MIT is a school of numbers ... version has one digit more.   At MIT, lecture is supplemented by recitation, led by TAs (Teaching Assistants). At Harvard, this work is done in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  furiously. I had a deadline at 5 pm for my Economics of Health class essay, so ... claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and ... ’t believe what I was looking at. It was one of those catatonic moments, when

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my ... whatsoever to do with age when I couldn't stop giggling and failed miserably at ... are way too good at carving pumpkins. I don't think I've ever carved a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011