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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.

  

  because what’s happening is that they are just setting up for perfect clears ...   place for us to meet up and hang out for a bit with Tetris on the side ... the age of 3, and I thought the goal was to stack up the tallest tower

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  Grow Up. I can’t listen to Never Grow Up for long without tearing up ... lyrics--Taylor Swift’s voice. For at the least the past eight years ... shower, while grocery shopping, probably even in my sleep. For the longest

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  for the 20th anniversary of the blogs, I originally hadn’t planned on ... in MIT Open Learning for a few years (working with Ceri!) while doing ... now a professor in Course 20 who I saw every week for the past 6 years

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  For the last 6 days, I’ve been at the Vision Sciences Society ... conference covers everything from computational models for describing human ... lasted for six very intense days. Each day, there were two different poster

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  ”. For documentation purposes, my last last day of school will begin with ... late night lab work for one of my last final projects. But we aren't here ... ) writing a 2-page reflection for 17S.914. But these things can wait. Right

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  a chain around my neck. I then picked up the kitty, gave her a treat, played with her for a bit, and went back to sleep for a few hours. At 9am ... finally woke up. I sprayed dry shampoo in my hair, and headed to MIT Medical

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  I can’t remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween. Last year ... phone when I discovered a picture of 6 or 7 year old me dressed up as a ... highly amused by my get-up and probably hopped up on the mere anticipation

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  side of the table, having done some 16-odd interviews for MIT these last ... Skype and IRL interviews. It's a great way for us to reach more of you ... up at 5 AM, the life story or experience that sets you apart from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  application cats. Also, last night we discovered a new qualification for ... -- always a fun event), and various other shenanigans, I met up with Anna and the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  morning! The sun is coming up over Denver, CO, and it is a beautiful day out ... seats in the lounge car are very full as we prepare for the journey over ... ended deciding to get up and wander Union Station. I have come to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  my waking up at 2 P.M.) As I order pizza from Domino’s for lunch, I ... its tail’s end, I find myself optimistic for 2017. There are at least ... , but for a spate of fireworks, making January 1 just another day. For me

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  First, I want to thank my amazing roommate-in-exile Cami for letting ... Arts. I wanted to share with you what makes MIT such a special place for ... also known for its generous financial aid packages for international

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  for me. i woke up to grey skies and decided to go back to bed for ... posters were done very well. i unfortunately only pulled up for the half the ... decisions, i believe i pulled up for a while and jammed for a bit. very fun, i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  up filing a patent at the end of his internship for a new radar ... , he would call up Milton with an idea, and they would work on it for a ... throughout the country for the past year, with intermittent internet shutdowns

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  professor that I've had the pleasure of learning from for the past three ... for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go ... modern writings (which I got a lot of inspiration for). Ultimately, on all

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  fulfilling for me. Many thanks. As you may know, I do my best to answer every ... personally). Read on for lots of Q & A. Before I do that, though, I'd like to ... this year). Stu's blog posting is closed for comments, but some replies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  Netflix for eight hours and it's completely acceptable because, hey, at ... lot of us tend to let ourselves be absorbed in our own lives. keeping up ... to present to my peers, the rationale for this being the intensity of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  invests money from the venture capital firm they work for into those ... for one's company. I wanted to meet as many as I could and learn as much ... sleeping from 6am to noon for the past month so I wasn't sure how my body

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  , so I'll save it for later :D First, let's talk about computing. MIT ... processing power, for our tour inside. Mind you, on the outside W91 has an ... for the Institvte, which explains its high ceilings and open spaces

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  at my summer job. After having slept for nearly 12 hours, I wake up ... inspiration.” I looked at him for a few seconds and realized that he was dead ... missing for me, though, was physical fitness. At some point, and almost on a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012