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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  MIT, rather than work on your ability to recognize problems you already ... + 2? Be clever! Pat yourself on the back if you got it right! You're so smart! That girl you have a crush on thinks your ability to derive is sexy

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  leading up to some unknown structure. There’s a mural on the lower ... meters in any direction. Open to the public, privately owned. Flanked on ... -Americans don’t speak Chinese. Alan introduces to me the phrase living on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  amounts dedicated to working and having fun, so we grind out psets on ... blasting music on weekends and we don't have to feel bad about doing the same ... -regular house meetings to talk about things like our stances on having people over

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  teaches you how to be a *good* software engineer. *good* means that your ... concept. for the final project, we get to play around with (or come up with ... should apply to the Media Lab for grad school. stay tuned on that. East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  . On coming to MIT, she participated in CityDays, an annual orientation ... , service is not only a fantastic way to hang out with your sisters - it is ... up, they became inspired to get involved in service events," said

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  Computer Science), with a heavy interest in biology.  I had intended to get a ... designed to be used for research on topics like flight formation and docking ... -coordinated tournament on the ISS. The goal of this UROP?  To write a game, teach it to

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  . Your experience in 2.009 can depend a lot on your team, so I feel super ... launch! Getting 17 people on the same page is not an easy feat, which ... supposed to be working on. Is an “opportunity” broad (ex: Fires) or specific

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  ; Congratulations on your game crash! I guess we’ll pivot to talk about the tournament ... . I want to focus on shorter games where I’m trying to get much more ... ’s journey with Henk Rogers to get the game out of Soviet Russia. One of the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  . Say I had to limit my inaugural entry to a mere 6 hours of my time on ... camera on my second day, which means that Days 2.5 to 24 bore no fruitful ... It's a little-known fact that McCormick Hall is home to not only

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  comfortable chairs. I went into 10-250 yesterday to check on the remodeling ... , providing a lot of room for resting your arm and writing on paper, but this ... they end up choosing. I know, it's very important and you're dying to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  by the end of this.” “Dude you’re literally going to lose.” “You ... going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly ... quite enough. By the point I was halfway through trying to woo the places

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  technical, or on the other extreme, get a stellar job with stellar pay. It ... . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my ... no one wants to open. Except I tend to be the one prying at it until

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  : during CPW and during REX. It's a great time to really get to know more ... to my boi Peter, the 3rd coolest dude on campus). But, I'm extremely ... 'm excited to get more involved with MIT's queer community. So far, I've felt

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  I was getting ready to attend my own Campus Preview Weekend (CPW). I ... one. I flew in to Logan Airport on the 7th, wearing my propeller hat ... disembark next to Kresge Lawn, pointed at my hat, and yelled, "You! You're

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  ’s gonna happen, retribution-wise. He’ll get beaten to death or stomped on or ... for us. But to get to Woody’s, we have to go through All That Is Wrong ... initial concern about how much to get, but my advisor does his marvelous job

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  much depth and motion she's able to get in such little time with charcoal ... ! “Love is being willing to ruin your good painting for the chance at a ... sessions: getting to observe and be inspired by other people's processes

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  really motivated to get a lot of stuff done. But then Christmas came. And ... more panic once I get back to Cambridge. Oh wells… I mean, I’ ... counts for pretty much your whole grade. While this is not such a big deal

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Inventional YoYo what the what

  

  things to blog about most will have to wait. But this couldn't. John Chow, who was admitted to the class of 2015, is a professional yoyo-ist. Yoyo ... videos on the Internet of him and his yoyo, on the yoyofactory (his sponsor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 12, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  of the reasons we went on this field trip, was to get experience doing ... -ended final project where you can choose to focus on any computer graphics ... joints. Then, we had to hook up the joints to a user interface to get them

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  have been photographed - NOM NOM NOM): So, feel free to post your ... out there. For those who are awaiting news on Pi Day, I hope this will ... play both of these videos at the same time, you get an interesting little

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011