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

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a ... Guan. Charles will be graduating tomorrow with a degree in mechanical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  need, and where you should buy it, and what you should bring from home or what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... -shopping, as was Melis's list. If you're interested in finding out what you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  could, in principle, buy a rack, but the pandemic price-gouging was likely ... pernicious myth."]connection between body and mind[/annotation] to keep both in ... in a way that is measurable in a messy world that so often defies that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in AP classes and participated in extracurriculars but still didn't know ... about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which ... didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... , 1994. It had already expired, and belonged in the trashcan, but somehow

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought I would. I grew up in small towns in Vermont and New Hampshire, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  , since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It ... computer not suffer on my behalf. Here are some things you should buy for your computer, once you buy your computer: A padded laptop bag with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  theory”-esque challenges run by anonymous gamemasters and $749 in prizes ... "]he didn’t believe me[/annotation] and then found my number in his contacts. I’ve been converted to Messenger, so I guess he won in the end.)  We

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... Points full of of photos that look like they were used in MIT admissions brochures—picturesque skylines, happy smiling students in various spots around

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  health in the process. The ultimate goal was MIT, I decided sometime in ... undergradate and current MIT graduate student, wrote in the Tech last month, the ... keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... ="Residence Exploration Week"]REX.[/annotation] In the past, we’ve built rollercoasters, a ... fort with a bouldering wall and net suspended in the middle of the second

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  in advance, here's considerations on picking classes and schedules ... in the first semester is good. First, you're in P/NR; second, you get a ... out of the way. Pick an intro subject in a major you're interested in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  most fluent in English, there are some added thoughts here that were not in the Chinese-language post, and additionally, some things in the ... , we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... lead to becoming narrow-minded. Wasn’t it good to be interested in ... hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... favorite artists. Or we could go on an adventure. There’s this nice spot in ... hallways, and buy lunch together. We could head downtown Boston and window

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  enough. Then in 2009 I graduated and was never heard from again. Until now! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  in the shower the website loaded, so my mom yelled "you got in ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would ... decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the

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

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is ... window when you turn a corner sharply, and makes the seats in this ride

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013