Earn a Pirate Certificate from MIT
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It was intended as a fun way to incentivize students meeting the physical education component of their degree requirements. The certificate does not entitle the student to engage in piracy.
Officially, yes, but as far as I know, it has existed there for much longer.
Aye, but a pirate requires no charter to sail the 7 seas
The ones today in the horn of africa though, AFAIK, are indeed free agents.
https://medium.com/@bagelboy/why-pirates-are-feared-5be709ae...
1. Anyone can get it, not just MIT students
2. It does allow you to engage in acts of piracy
3. Includes the accent
Lol / Too bad.
Don't they teach history at MIT? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque
And Google defines a letter of marque as:
"a license to fit out an armed vessel and use it in the capture of enemy merchant shipping and to commit acts that would otherwise have constituted piracy."
Sounds like actions taken with letters of marque are perhaps specifically not piracy.
Well you'd still get to do all the pirate stuff, buckling your swash and splicing the mainbrace and all that. And there would be pieces of eight aplenty. You just wouldn't get hanged afterwards. Win-win situation!
I also think that such might be amusing to MIT students who pursue the Pirate Certificate.
Cool laminated SOB license from Nash gov. :)
Although surely in some corner of the internet there's a subculture that fetishizes overweight, out-of-shape guys in leotards.
Me, straight out of the airborne infantry before entering college, would've just looked at them with a disbelieving look and laughed...
I don't remember folks laughing at one another at MIT since we were mostly misfits in our prior schools anyway.
Here's a telling anecdote: I was at prize day (pretty much only people who actually get prizes go so it's in a small lecture hall), and one student got a major athletic award, apparently having set various NCAA records (presumably we were in some very minor subdivision of NCAA but anyway). He was huge, and he kinda stumbled on the stairs as an athlete will, and when he came up to the stage he merely mumbled inarticulately. I was astonished: a stereotype of the dumb jock! Then last they gave out the scholar-athlete award. No surprise, it was this same guy...but in addition to playing three sports he had a 4.8 average as a double major aero-astro and physics. No wonder he was so quiet: his brain was super busy!
I felt really humbled.
I didn't even live in massachusetts any more though I came back frequently to make sure I took all the chemistry quizzes. Turned out they were closing the pool early to renovate it (I don't know if it's still there but it was behind building 26 IIRC). Apparently I luckily came by a couple of days before they closed it, right under the wire for the pool and registrar.
Back then there wasn't a swimming class requirement, you just had to take n semesters of PE. I remember doing ballet, badminton and pistol, but don't remember what else. Though I love to sail I didn't want to go anywhere near the charles or the harbor in those days.
What I meant was you had to either pass the swimming test or take it once or twice for PE whether or not you ever got to the point you could pass the test.
I actually never did either but that was because I had a SCUBA certification at the time which did have a swimming test requirement. So I got a waiver.
I regretted a bit that I didn't take better advantage of the PE options. At the time, I really liked playing ice hockey although I wasn't great at it so I mostly just took hockey as an option.
Heh, my school (Humboldt State though I think it's a California wide requirement) wouldn't let me graduate without proving I was literate...quite offensive.