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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  . In fact, if you don't do any Rush as a freshman then YOU'RE DOING IT ... fraternities...how many boys choose not to join one and what do they miss out on ... getting a bid. That's right, I spent 2 weeks with this fraternity, doing

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  course 9? Do you like the number 9? In reverse order: I like the number 9 ... ). Carmen queries: emt sounds so exciting, but do you ever really get all the ... run pretty much the same as they do. (My last post about MIT-EMS was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  Red Line), which would raise the question of what they were doing there ... their dorm phones, even though we do have one for each room (or you should ... , are doing, actually). Ben says he got an A in the course. If Paul does

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  , but the professor seems to know what he's doing and the material so far ... quite enjoyable. Again, it was all about vectors, and I can do those. Our ... enough to know what he's doing, a rare combination. I think I'll be able to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  't do it alone. Everybody comes in freshman year thinking "I am the ... everybody else around them. And so that's what they do. We respect brilliance, hard work, clever solutions, and technical prowess. We do not respect

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  as much as I do!!! Now without further ado, here's Raymond Tran. TLDR ... : Protochess supports up to 16x16 sized boards and custom pieces that do crazy ... do everything as fast as possible to have a good engine. We can use a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  School of Engineering. What classes do you take? First, let's go over ... Bayesian) probability, and (mainly graph search) algorithms. You do labs every week that revolve around a cute robot that will be able to do a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  what were you doing before you started Crash Course?  These two questions ... internet, but I’m not going to offer that as advice. If you weren’t doing what you’re doing today, what else would be doing? Before YouTube I was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

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

  

  -to game to avoid doing work, and I go pretty good at the tetris.com version ... goal.) Then I tried to flex my current score of 477,000.] What do you ... patterns that they do over and over and over again. It’s just that they get

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  'm doing an internship as a frontend developer. So far I've blogged about the ... Toolkit. To do anything with the state, I had to think about use ... familiar with Redux Toolkit, I can now think in the level of "do some action

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  started doing things the right way, and only then would I have Grown Up ... each successive fail. I could do calculus; I could rattle on all day ... . But I was 17, and I was just quirky, and one day I’d Grow Up and do

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  very quickly by bulldozing through everyone in your way. i do not ... ” suffer from a lot of hindsight bias so i will try to avoid doing so but ... and deer, but they do so almost entirely by running, and this is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  . This class is notoriously difficult and I'm pretty stressed about doing ... that it's ready for students when they do them on that Tuesday ... . Crosswords; I do the New York Times Daily Mini challenge every day when it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  principal's office. "I hear you're threatening to commit suicide. Camille, do ... end up telling someone, my friend had replied, "Who do you think you are? Her? You don't get to do that." and it shut me up real quick. I forgot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  about what's going on Taiwanese TV shows than I do (jk, Matt =p). But ... that people are pretty smart there." 2:16 to 2:45: Host: "So what do geniuses look like? Do they not comb their hair or take baths?" Janet: "That

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  letters and reje...not-acceptance letters, do you ever get people who come ... to major in and do research in bioengineering at MIT. Application ... be accepted." For many applicants (especially those doing IB or A

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

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  mountaineers, next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer admission today ... , as always, left us bleary-eyed and reminded us that what we do is more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Crusty White Dogs Appreciation Post 💕 🐕 💕 🐕💕

  

  to do at least a ninth semester. Which kinda bites. It's not that ... doing robotics and large-scale social card games. And that's a blogger and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 18, 2026
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  that I started following the team as closely as I do today. It’s no ... . And I was able to do that through baseball. Because when I close my

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  to help our students communicate what MIT is actually like. We do this ... orientation if possible. If this sounds like something you might like to do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025