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

  

  values. So in order to get that, you need to make sure that you don’t crash ... , to be honest. Because it is a game that is defined by taking risks. And ... recently, so I would like to put more effort into that, or making and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  the class are required to create a website about it- you can check out ... In response to a request from a current applicant, I'm proud to present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham Allen, President of the Class of 1929 ... , 1931, and 1932. Their mission was to design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The committee's first decision was whether to use

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to ... to pretty extreme lengths to make this roadmap possible: I included ... roadmap was one of the most challenging to make because of the credit limit

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  excuse to drink ungodly amounts of hot chocolate. Nothing beats sitting by ... me and another one of my best friends who goes to MIT. We were walking ... looks like it has transitioned to rain =( Last week, I finally busted out

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  seems to have tickets to see the film when it premieres. Before you ask ... been revealed to us so far (mostly from watching out-of-context trailer ... like not a lot to work off of, but I assure you that it’s more than

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  job, I am frequently asked to tell various chapters of my life story ... , Our Lady of the Hamptons. I then made the big leap to the public high school (my graduating class: 65 students!), and managed to take all three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  , storyboard, and make a sound list for a scene in 4.354. To be done by Tuesday ... . [annotation note="To be fair, I'm making this harder on myself by trying to shop ... about making applesauce [annotation note="My last post was supposed to be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spreading Santorum around MIT Or rather, just spreading awareness of Santorum.

  

  I don't want to make this blog too political--I will not use Turkey vs. Spam as a stepping stone to the presidency. Still, I must say, I ... specifics, but suffice to say that my dissatisfaction with him has grown so

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  Program) Emmanuel was most moved by how many Ghanaians were quick to help ... documentary, and was inspired to act quickly. Except that, initially, Emmanuel ... bent, so grows the tree’. Teach small kids how to do things, and by the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  by the time I get to choose my major, I wouldn't be able to choose ... ?" Well, I think it's only 11 ties, by my latest count. Maybe I'll try to ... expect the admissions decisions to be emailed or posted on the website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  set up, right? How were they able to set it up quickly enough? It must ... I don't think it's available on-line, so you'll have to stop by if you ... Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  Today while running westward at sunset, I was nearly blinded by the ... be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I'd have to run faster than the rotation of the earth. I spent the rest of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  equations and formulas that I learned in high school, but by making me apply ... MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a ... incredibly difficult. And by "incredibly difficult", I mean "incredibly

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  group of 5 Americans and our 20 Vietnamese friends quickly increased by ... of rural Vietnam, inhabited in the day by water buffalo, seemed to turn ... games, explained to me in broken English by two girls. We were father

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  to blog next. Sometimes it's just a quick update and everyone is like ... 's thoughts on if a topic would make a good blog or how to structure a ... of themselves next to every piece of work they do, which has to make

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  to the Bay Area, followed by a trip to the Rocky Mountains and finally ... America to meet with prospective applicants and parents in more than 70 cities. It's going to be exciting! It all starts this Wednesday with two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  and move to the front, to make it easier for him to come to you and ... 's gotten into me :( Second: this weekend is going to be EXCITING! I know of ... turns out, it's not a good idea to accidentally push down on your laptop

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  although i’m trying not to define myself by my negative emotions, there ... antidepressants, or whatever, the point isn’t to make me stop feeling negative emotions. but what is the point? is it to just make sure that i don’t kill

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  was that Jony had to draw by hand what they planned to make. “I always understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was ... his father's college workshop.  To be able to make whatever I dreamed up

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013