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  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  to do together with friends. There are many other [annotation note ... Big Game like? how you know if you are doing the game-problems the ... , the Big Game is made in a completely new way! why do we love the Big

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• 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 ... played in 2018. And the reason I did so is because I had a friend. I had ... goal.) Then I tried to flex my current score of 477,000.] What do you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  I’d do a fun post about what’s in my bag (and on my person). The Bag ... black ink instead of pencil when I’m writing. I do sometimes keep white ... brands and very affordable. Maybe I should do a blog post about skincare

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  we did).  Do you ever meet young students on campus? Maybe 16-17 year olds? Do you think they would be accepted by classmates? Yes! My hall has several residents who were not 18 entering MIT. One of our 2018s is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  don’t throw up. If you keep doing that you’re going to throw up. Don ... , “Ana doesn’t throw up.” “Do you want to hear something cursed?” I asked ... because I know the consequences of settling in. Because that’s what you do

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  doing projects for my HASS classes, and twice a week I’d sit down to grind ... classes or projects. [carousel image1="70864" image2="70865" /] "Do I even ... Ruby do most of it.” It’s okay to struggle with something, my mom said

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  In spring 2018, we wrote a post called Visual Arts @ MIT. In that ... you cry, makes you laugh. We wanted to learn how to do that. MIT has ... , here actually do learn this skill directly through MIT courses. CAD

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile. You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  2018. In conclusion, here is the blessed image of Gritty riding The Cow

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  the original SPECTRVM article. Plus, you 2018's have housing decisions

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  most true to what I do. I started with the actual letter I wrote to ... do, someone to email, lectures to go to. It’s crazy! I’ve never been ... don’t think there is anywhere else I would rather be. " September, 2018

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  . Doing a double major means you have to satisfy many more requirements than if you do a single major. This is often justified – if you want to have ... intersection itself. Doing a double major felt like a bad idea because it meant

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  while they were in school, and so they tend to continue doing really cool ... beauty of it. You take notes just like you do with a normal pen and paper ... -taking because I tend to do one of two things. Either I obsessively write down

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  do that style of blog again, except I decided to torture myself by ... a lesson, so for our final paper, I was doing research on relevant ... could sell/resell. We didn't end up doing this and watched it from campus

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  and was borrowed from Latin later, after the k sound eroded. Ta-da

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  , so I’m gonna go get some food and do some brief sightseeing. See you ... last been in Chicago in March 2018, almost five years ago, as part of a ... [annotation note="by rule, I do not take pictures of art, so no photos there

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  ’s kitchen circa 2018[/caption] [caption id="attachment_94544" align ... freshman fall. When I do crack open its worn pages, though, I always remember ... there’s no shortage of opportunities to do design work. [caption id

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the ... very similar and partly because not doing so increases the number of ... fun doing this project over the last few years. It was nice to have

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ’ve decided to do a post dedicated to my favorite number. Here, [latex ... ’s circumference and its radius. Doing a bit of algebra on the definition of [latex ... : i.e., [latex]dr’ \rightarrow 0[/latex]. When we do that, calculus

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  to do something. This doesn't mean that the reason is always meaningful ... most everything I do. Taking an example from when I was younger, in the ... doing this besides signaling to my peers that I cared, too? (And that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022