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  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  As regular readers of this blog know I love to bike. It's my primary mode of transport when the weather is (reasonably) nice, it's a great way ... the way where I have to cross a side street, or switch sides of the road

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  at the forces affecting the development of cities around the world. If accepted, I will be travelling with a group of about 30 students to Detroit ... gain a better understanding of the social, political and economic systems

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  Yesterday was one of those days where we were fortunate enough to have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn ... poured down my face and into every crevice of my body. On top of that, the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  I have enough of a questions backlog now that I think it's worth ... little groups of freshmen led by an upperclassman (all incoming frosh are ... midway and the athletics midway, where you can visit booths of different

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  have a long history of watching awful horror movies (think The Evil Dead ... minutes before finally stumbling upon the new, extended DVD release of ... it would be a winner, since I had already seen it while rushing one of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may ... graduated, this is the type of post-college wisdom I might share from time to ... that much. By sophomore year of college, I had to declare my major. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  -time, so I had to budget my time carefully. I made the plan to do most of my ... making weren’t a good use of my time and weren’t making my application any ... that I had already spent the right amount of time working on it. Since I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  the eventuality of winter break. [caption id="attachment_95733" align ... gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a ... said than done. tooling At the start of the semester, I tried to take

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it was bright but unforgiving. i’ve been wearing a lot of red, sort of ... dyed over it with red and of course, that’s refused to wash out for the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  of mixed feelings on graduating. On one hand, I'm nervous. I ... the rest of my life now? But on the other hand, I know that this chapter of my life is done and that in order to grow we need to put

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  As per my previous post, I've been going through a lot of shit! But there's also a lot of incredibly fun and freeing things that I've been ... just because I find it kind of weird, maybe a little jarring. I prefer to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  .600[/annotation] exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don't even need to ... asleep mid-exam; and, as a result, because I left most of it blank. cue the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  Among my defining personality traits are playing 2048 in the year of our lord 2022 -- many people have made fun of me for this, but it's like ... , and being the number one Carly Rae Jepsen fan in most of my social

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  resource/guide for MIT first-years. This is a program under the Office of the First Year (OFY) who is in charge of these things. note that as the years go on, a lot of these things will change and so it's always best to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  title of the event was "sf party" and the description of the event said it ... with friends. i had a particular idea of what parties could look like ... people several years in college. and instead of being held in a dormitory

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of the smallest majors at MIT, despite the breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to ... lot of words, but more generally I’m interested in the chemical traces

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  's nothing earth-shattering. it's easy to minimize as it spills out of your ... devoid of people, because everyone's on break but you're still at MIT ... and early college clinging onto the snippets of poetry you reblogged

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually ... eighteen-year-old mind didn’t realize that this application was the first of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  blissful summer. here are a couple of things that are making me very happy ... (quarter) slices of pizza from a place called Ernesto's on the same street ... game changers, y'all. i've spent a lot of time biking through the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  oversubscribed), so instead I'm taking four classes, of which only one is likely to ... , although it's a little hard to tell, because the first week of the semester ... 'm chilling -- and this chill, combined with the delightful chill of my IAP (and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020