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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.

  

    place for us to meet up and hang out for a bit with Tetris on the side ... Scuti became the first person in human history to beat tetris. It’s a ... ="97323" image4="97297" image5="97326" /] After watching a video on the topic

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

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  college interview is not the best place to try out a 'new look.' It's good to take a position on a subject in an interview but it's also important ... On a recent blog entry, I got a question from a student I thought was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  a life in the tech industry." "MAS.863 - how to make almost anything! Really taught me how to actually make most anything. Expect to spend a lot ... ; arranging circuit elements and software to make a thing that thinks (6

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  invitation to explore other options, and, like a puzzle, figure out how you can ... your light to the world in new and different ways than you may be ... about your lives and how your individual stories have brought you to this

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to ... : Anthropology 21A.00 Introduction to Anthropology: Comparing Human Cultures; HASS ... . Greene GSL offers language instruction courses at a variety of levels to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  to Killian Court. We set up next to some trees on the right and figured ... thought about taking a shower, but it was like I was glued to my bed. Just ... the kitchen to get ingredients for a smoothie. I pulled the fridge door

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  . MyMIT Application Tracking This is a good time for you to check up on ... wait a while longer before having it evaluated to give you time to send ... no impact. The best way to get us a missing piece is by fax. Our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  certainly nice. I’m not trying to sell you on Microsoft – there are a small ... to do. ***actually, I just found this blog post on a bar stool in ... from a while back) Oy! Welcome to the much-belated “what I’m doing this

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  Jimmy (left) works on Groups, a great way to connect with other beginning ... check out their new gadgets before turning around to check out what companies like Bloomberg and Intuit were up to.. and we made a brief

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  important than ever to look at life from new perspectives, be it the tip of a ... "a new magazine" which "spotlights exemplary writing from the first ... -winning writers on the faculty. I was surprised to learn that, apparently, MIT has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their ... ), there was a class each term which had the curious tendency to absorb all ... ), I decided that I wanted to try a different approach: below the 48 unit

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  only made me more excited to be on campus. My CPW weekend was off to a ... "Immigrant Song" to play on air. Remember, I have only touched upon a few of ... getting settled in my host's dorm at New House 2, I was pumped and ready to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  -conscious about how often i make blog posts. my ideal is to make a post once a week, but i've been slipping on that recently, because blogging has taken a ... two things: a way to vent, and a release from whatever negativity i feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  down, and that we still exist! I first moved to WILG after I took a gap year and thus couldn't get on-campus housing anymore. I used to live in ... was important to me, but I didn't want to stay on the mandatory meal

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  ...here we are). This past January, I learned how to code (again). On a whim ... managed to nab an internship at Microsoft as a New Technologist, where my ... learn how to also beep boop. Regardless, I suffered through 6.145, with a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  mentors, because I think I'm still a bit too young and foolish to be ... , if you're a bundle of nerves and it feels like your future is riding on ... 't quite empathize with the feeling of your whole life riding on a decision

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  or be on campus and take classes and do a million things? You can. Or ... Canadian but got lost somewhere around theater-class New Yorker. 3.) Had a ... ) until she meets a guy (or a recipe) who opens her eyes (to the miracle

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  new people. I am hoping to do this more. If you're in a dorm that isn ... Disclaimer: I actually wrote this on my flight to California back in ... 't expect to be this different. Anyway, in my time here, I've learned a lot in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  to New York City with me. there's also the fact that I'll be in Africa ... ...," nor can I quantify the anxiety it evokes. I did a "senior sale" to get ... , but this time, it's a race against the clock counting down to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  of annotations, it is a monster to read... let alone understand. But ... gone. Yikes. On Wednesday morning, after a sleepless night (not kidding ... logged in on the same computer. I emailed the following message to the 3

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007