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• 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

  

  pieces Sliding pieces are a little more complicated. It is possible to use ... very happy and full to see this project go public and I hope you love it ... do everything as fast as possible to have a good engine. We can use a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  't strong enough for it. I'm glad to be wrong. After some particularly ... isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... day determined to be myself, even if it meant sticking out. And so I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  is greeted with generous aid packages. It was also nice to get to ... much, it was nice to see everyone again. Columbia Restaurant, home to ... , Joanne, Edmund, Bryan and Ben. It was quite an interesting conference

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  , so i'm excited to see where it goes! Jenny> i read the first few ... Internet Nora> “Georgia” by Vance Joy. Trying to learn it on guitar. 6 ... campus to meet students and staff. It was virtually run for the Class of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  . Revision 1, as you write or immediately after. If it comes naturally, try to ... your SAT scores. I won’t touch on it again. You shouldn’t need to touch ... Cs? Will you still give your all the semester after? will add to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  me if I "felt any different" after Initiation. It's a simple question, really. But at the same time, it goes straight to the heart of what it ... to put it into words, the primary difference is an almost overwhelming

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  . The Salem story is proof that it is totally possible to enjoy a young ... ditched it eventually and decided to improvise once in the town. Salem’s main tourist bait was… “witches!” And, okay, it would be reasonable to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  structures that allow computers to accomplish anything, ie. how is it possible ... theory classes at mit. it assumes the ability to read knowledge as well as ... project is to compose a movement of a string quartet, and it’s cool because

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  to finishing it, so naturally the best time to start working on it ... almost completely fallen asleep, I'm going to give it a shot (and hopefully ... away from a little town and a lot of who I used to be. In retrospect, it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  them, and they made sure it was as fun as possible. We went to an ... alone. It’s hard to value companionship until you’re starved of it, and ... justifications to explain every possible scenario that could play out. Seconds

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  playing. The game takes a pretty long time to complete, but it’s choose your ... to get your hands on the prized diploma, but it’s way more fun to ... building numbers. It irks me that after almost two weeks of not leaving this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  competition. After it was explained to me I was a little stunned. I looked at my ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its ... the parts into a working robot. It started off fast. I was unable to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  gratitude to Zahir Dossa, whose class made our project possible; to the Public Service Center and the Legatum Center, which funded it; and to our host in ... after we found out that the hotel where we were planning to stay had been

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  feels like to be accepted into a school, what it feels like to get a ... experience if you want to and if you work for it. Out of fear of sounding ... -in-their-pants jitteriness they felt - we (and by "we" I mean "I") try to maintain the little

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  and possibly removed."](within reason).[/annotation] It can be about MIT ... (s) to all of us, or to specific bloggers. After April 19 at 11:59 PM ... what an AMA is, it's basically a Q&A session with a person or group

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  its way like sweet nostalgia to my ears, I’m in good and plentiful ... ’s-eye pictures of it, which I was unable to get as I am not, in fact, a bird (as ... making it an ongoing series—but then I remembered how much cool stuff

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  ) it's time for anyone who's interested in blogging to share your writing ... aside, here's what it means to us to be an admissions blogger: MIT ... of wisdom, but we can’t write about what it’s like to experience

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  miserable! It’s absolutely possible to maintain relationships with friends who ... Next for my first two years) and I tried to do as much as possible during ... MIT is cool, you’ll go to X because it will make them happy. Ah, if I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  to my own, Air Force members who show me how it’s possible to lead with ... Shape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose ... shoulders. It asks you to look into yourself and think deeply about who you

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  't cut it for me and that certain materials didn't sink in until after ... , every TA for this class was amazing)). 2. Try to go to recitation, it's extremely easy to justify missing but it can be really useful and relevant for

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013