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

  

  engineering. But he's probably best known around campus for being the King of ... ;   During my first CPW, at the MIT Professor Talent Show, Charles accidentally drove the lolriokart into an enormous bank of computers in front of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  . We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity.”[annotation note="The only true part of this quote is the first sentence. Winter here ... brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  the Self-Assembly Lab; this week we heard from David Sun Kong of the ... complete my distribution. The first assignment is called "Critter": the goal ... additions or deletions in physical traits or behaviors over the course of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
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  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  Office of the First Year, where you can learn (among other things) about ... spent probably the first three weeks in a constant state of far too much ... first year at MIT: riding the seesaw of being in the moment vs. realizing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... MIT, I've been the treasurer of Chinese Students Club, President of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  I figured I would suck it up and power through for the purpose of a ... more time than I should to complete the first Python psets, I sheepishly ... . I started having thoughts to the effect of “everyone else is already

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  had been drawn for the lottery to see him and Mike Schroepfer (VP of ... Zuckerberg's Talk:  Why he was here in the first place - I actually didn ... Hearing Mark Zuckerberg's Talk: Significantly more terrified of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  than ever before, in the form of taking five classes in my first semester ... Search of Lost Time and Salman Rushdie’s The First Blackbird.   ... the heady ecstasy of MIT materializing out of an abstract dream into a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  tournament for the first time in program history. They were knocked out of the ... lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... : MIT should release the full set of admissions data stripped of ... , and that problem is this: sometimes, you don't have all of the data

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  cat I found online.)[/caption] The inspiration MIT.nano is MIT’s state-of-the ... of 2018, it houses the most sophisticated nanofabrication facilities of any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
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  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  country); meanwhile, for some of my fellow campers, I was the first Jewish ... As we conclude our work with the Class of 2027, and turn our attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... suspect they chose the name at least partially for the sake of an amusing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  mixed-race. This is one of the first times I've really felt like someone I ... wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of ... into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  programming languages by that point, and started my first company while in the ... . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP ... ’re looking for a UROP in the first place (I trust it’s something other than “I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of ... neurons. So that's my boring story of the week. If you want, you can ... -ultra-delayed blog post about the best part of MIT: WMBR 88.1 FM, the campus radio

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really ... that I had an extra import statement at the top of my main file which ... not too long after a member of our family died of cancer. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... under the nose of the administration while quite possibly breaking dozens ... you're walking through campus and you see something a little out of the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  , Facebooked, Slacked, or spoken on the phone with many members of the Class of ... different age. As a result, he would, at the end of either program, emerge a different person. The question — the hard question — was which of those

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016