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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

  

  wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little ... , Aidan Chambers, is pretty good at chess and played it all the time while ... train in chess" so he could later challenge Chambers in a chess match and

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

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  are), but rather I'll base everything on my own personal opinions and ... bell curve), and 3.091 got the lectures recorded on video (for the ... are better if you do them with the big crowd, and for me, given a chance

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  and 680! writing). I was wondering if it would help my application if I ... , including an int'l olympiad medal)." Don't worry about the writing, and your ... point where it is clear that they are 'qualified' and could succeed as far

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  6.7800 (Inference and Information, the subject of the exam and by far ... ’s often brutal and unforgiving academic gauntlet, yet also sad that I was ... found most of my classes fun (yes, really), rewarding, and memorable (in a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  I fly a lot. Fact: aside from April and July, I’ve flown every month ... , from the impeccable European way that the lettuce, tomatoes, and ham are arranged between the triangular whole-wheat bread), and LAX has relatively

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  comments. Hope these answers help! Have a wonderful and safe thanksgiving. -B ... clash of my exam and i couln't give it. in december i have my exam again ... i could manage it." Take the January test and make sure to send your

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  currently have a backlog of materials in our processing center, and expect to ... , and sending your abstract along when it is complete. We will be able to ... add accomplishments and test scores?" Matt '00 replies: You will not be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  turns and the gloom sets in and everything feels cold and bleak, the one ... and instead look at the faces that are right there with you. Sometimes ... waitlist and did not make it beyond the first class, so I do not remember his

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  Finals season is well and officially upon us, but I couldn’t help but ... outcomes and tarot card readings can be really helpful to encourage ... yourself as well: Try and get a good grasp of what the card is saying

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... important life decisions based on this questionable data. And to think that ... change. Thanks to MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  ,  and organizing any noteworthy finds into one of my 150+ carefully ... and fell 100 albums behind by June? would I really be able to devote ... school, I devoured Ready Player One a few days into the new year and had an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a visiting committee at MIT. At the time, MIT faculty and administration were ... then-President of MIT Howard Johnson leaned over and quietly asked him if

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  grocery run. It was wine and cheese night in my suite, so I was preparing an appetizer of brie sprinkled in candied walnuts, wrapped in puff pastry, and ... had no idea about until last week. I picked up my cheese and pastry

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  were both sick, had a super long and challenging 6.00 pset (literally ... Ring Comm Study Break to help plan, and we were assigned 8 – we repeat E ... FAR better than the week (just by the fact that it was a weekend, and we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  than the research I do. Other than protecting travellers and preserving ... . Culture and some other French radio stations that are fun to listen to on ... grew up in California and this political ad came out when I was in high

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  stop by Random Hall (and I happen to be home, and you recognize me) I’ll give you a glitter fairy sticker and a sheet of bubble wrap. I ... Gregor, which had a beautiful view of the rain pummeling the Charles River and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  The Office of Admissions is currently closed for the holidays, and is not accepting emails or answering phone calls (and I am on vacation ... . And below, I've provided answers to some additional FAQs: The deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  avid daycationer. When you live within an hour and a half of Lake Tahoe, the bay area, wine country, and Monterey, you tend to be a daycationer ... June… was followed by a walk around Sonoma, and through an amusing

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  key to the rest of the site. Each page of the site contains, first and ... world, and so on. Pretty much all admissions sites I've seen have this ... student life and culture, for example, you have almost instant access to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  , I was feeling angsty and wrote this blogpost about being a sophomore ... , but without the FPOPs and orientation. I felt angsty because I felt like ... supposed to just know where the lounge for our newly declared majors was, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023