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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.

  

  . Ever since then, I have been obsessed. In high school, it was my go ... sleeping in high school because I was always seeing the tetris pieces in my ... ="97282" image3="97288" /] Now that I’m at MIT, I play tetris almost daily. In the

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

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month ... before hand. I'm as scheduled as I possibly can be (which is not a lot ... Development and Printing. So I'm in a class called "Digital and Darkroom

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  like this way is Chinatown,” I say, pointing to the streets in front of ... . You can read Chinese. I can, he says, but only simplified. He explains that in Chinatown, everything’s in traditional Chinese. Talks about how the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  good taste in music and also a beautiful singing voice, which I know ... , you just can't find people who will do that anywhere else. I also ... freshman in Mystery Hunt, and her team happened to finish first. So I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces ... how he banned the last one from attending his funeral. I didn’t know ... girl scowling at the camera in a dress, I figured Dennis at least looked

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  more to go. 12:05 PM – I head back to the maker lab in building E25 to ... fatigue, I have a lot of fun fielding questions and discussing ways in which ... us don't have any background in designing or making things, I'm quite

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

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  with a bolded list! Past Living Situation(s): I was born in Ethiopia ... their lives and we headed over to Kansas. I've since lived in Kansas for ... Living Situation: Now on to fun stuff. I currently live in East Campus

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  for every night in January. During the semester, I usually grab dinner ... + tuna in red sauce = spaghettuna. I told my sister and her text message ... can be a turn-off. I guess I’m just used to it by now; you see, I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Graduation Picture Book Photos from graduation because I've lost my writing skills (~23 Pictures)

  

  I decided that since I still cannot write intelligibly in order to summarize what four years of an MIT education can do for you, I'll just post some pictures from graduation until I process everything.

  • by Bryan
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  "I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head ... . I gave in. I now speak in numbers and nicknames and mailing lists

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  physics, grade a few papers, and in exchange I get to say I helped teach a ... programming. I've got a background in programming, but they use Python whereas I ... lot of sense. All in all, I love this class so far. 2.002-Mechanics and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  , whatever. Anyway, I want to know - how hard is MIT? Because I keep hearing it ... think it's kind of hard. OH, CHRIST. I HAVE NO CHANCE OF GETTING IN." (I ... .) In response to all of these comments, I'd like to deliver a poorly

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  wondering how I could express something meaningful in so few words. But in the ... document. Essentially, I can see myself from the past writing, deleting, and ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  existed! People live in houses! Dogs exist! Babies exist!" Here, I am ... teenage dream. I've just always loved art and design and cities, and in the ... , interning in China allowed me to really step back and re-evaluate what I want

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  time I checked in... We learned about hashing, and how it's a trade ... parts are back at school today - I dropped my brother off at school this morning, meaning I woke up at 7:15 (the horror!). The house is empty and I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  ), and then Thursday and Friday, I met up with an MIT alum in Texas who ... of the freshman perspective, and compare it to how I felt a year ago, and to how I feel now. I'm probably a little bit more focused, a little

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  campus, and their explorations in finding new places to live. Today, I ... trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation ... was going on in this time that I straight up don't remember because it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  end seriously sore from ~6 hours in one seat. I’m 24 minutes out from Los Angeles, and I can’t wait to spend Thanksgiving with my family. At ... belonged at MIT. I think that at some point in every college student

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I submit a creative/maker portfolio as a QuestBridge applicant?

  required. To learn more about the different kinds of portfolios you can submit, as well as how to submit, please visit our Creative Portfolios page
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  Barrett. I've always wanted to learn how to write poetry, being too afraid ... they wanted to be featured and I got some poems in response! I absolutely ... , again & again & again   I awaken, enclosed in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022