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• Blog / MIT Life

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  .   there’s a lot to unpack in this building, so let’s start with the ... afar, you might be tempted to think that there’s a forty-story behemoth towering over vassar street. contrary to appearances, simmons has just ten

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / Events

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

  

  the age of 3, and I thought the goal was to stack up the tallest tower. Ever since then, I have been obsessed. In high school, it was my go-to game to avoid doing work, and I go pretty good at the tetris.com version

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

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  it here, but since today is my last day here, I wanted to write a ... , before I get into anything too serious, I really want to give a huge thank you to my team, Team 12. I worked in a team of four other TNTs and two

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  two camps when it comes to a new year. The first camp sees it as a reset of sorts, a time to renew life-changing resolutions, to pursue a ... , it just means that Netflix is about to add some new TV shows and movies

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  I have heard the term “Shoulder Season” to characterize the time ... vice versa). I am, however, going to co-op the term to also apply to the ... group of rising seniors (and other underclass students) who are anxious to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  are buffet-style, allowing you to get as much food as you want from several "stations" around the dining hall. Indeed, an easy way to level up ... combinations across different stations. Although they are designed to be self

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a ... place: Austin, Texas. Texas is not what I had expected it to be. The ... super desert-y. You do need a car to get around, but some areas are

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  This IAP, I’ve gone to Brazil!  I’m taking WGS.245: Race, Place, and ... intensity, bouncing from adventure to deep discussion and back again. Here’s a ... from the airport[/caption] I managed to pack just one suitcase

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  circles. Like most people, Call Me Maybe was my first exposure to Carly Rae ... reason, my elementary school went up to sixth grade instead of ending at ... song that the sixth graders decided to do a flash mob to. And then

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  months"]6.009[/annotation] you have to write an [annotation note ... LOLCODE-to-Python interpreter (when I'm motivated to do so/not hosed), and ... /memory) and has 8 commands:  + adds 1 to the memory at the current position

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  . I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ear. I want to bask in this feeling, write it down so that I can read ... ."]dreams.[/annotation] # For about a month I managed to write on the weekends, but classes expand

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I ... grade because I very distinctly running up the road near my house to the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  after experiencing this tumultuous year, it's strange to be having a ... never did during the academic year. a friend and i walked to a 24 hour ... to Alive and Kicking Lobsters in West Cambridge"]actual lobster

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we had room to admit students ... , our plan and hope is  to admit students from the wait list. This year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  minutes.   Let the soup cool enough that it is safe to handle. Food process ... cream. Stir the soup, bring it back to a boil, and season to taste

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  , we've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we could go to our ... admitted students choosing to enroll at MIT (also known in admissions

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  A few weeks ago we posted this video to announce our decision date, 3 ... figured I'd blog about how and why we did it. The Idea According to my inbox ... students their decision letters in tubes, a practice that dates back to when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  All words beyond this introduction belong to Piper L. '17 (who is no stranger to the blogs), and she has kindly allowed me to share them. I think they need to be heard by more people. Here is her original post. This

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  , strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music ... of the week's events; read/watch this if you want to know more about ... pancake I made to look like a turkey   lemon zest shortbreadá la

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to ... riddles whose solutions range from the sacred to the obscene but are always ... Monasteries. King Henry VIII gave the word to take over or destroy the nation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014