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  [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

  

  project in the works since December. What started as a petty joke eventually ... challenges big thoughts). I eventually settled on a final rewrite in Rust ... , and just barely finished in July. I had no idea what I was getting into

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

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  click -- check out the "Top 10"!) And then in true French style, a wine ... ! While I'm excited for the summer, with a continuation of my January internship at the BNSF Railway in Texas, I'll also be missing some of the great

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a ... class. (I had been working in my UROP lab for a year when I took the class ... /coffee/coke/caffeine/speed/whatever in the dorms? Haha, I'd say that's about average for a freshman pset

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  discounting and dreading the place I'd lived in and known since I was a small ... there and you do what you need to in the course of your daily routine. A ... other night after a long day of travel and lugging. Good to be back, but I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  year. Now here's what I found, that I never before knew existed ... . Regardless of where you stand, you should read through it to get a sense. I ... , a citizen only as of last summer, I'm pretty especially excited to be

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  Hey guys, I'm back to blogging once a week after a ridiculously crazy ... three best restaurants in the Cambridge/Boston area but I love them all ... offers some of the best, what I've been told all my life is, Chinese food

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the ... , a woman involved in the testing aspect of DINEPA, whom we showed our ... instant help by the biggest water organization in Haiti was definitely a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  .mit.edu/chocolatiers/www. Check out a video of the MIT chocolatiers in action at www.how2heroes.com ... essentially a chocolate appreciation club, formed in 2003 as an extension of ... . Members joke that they should create a "Beaver Bar" - a treat named for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  nine entries, A-J (minus I because it's ~imaginary~), in a highrise stack ... through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon ... and eat snax. (I don't have pics of this one because tbh I was asleep. A

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  In response to a request from a current applicant, I'm proud to ... for you, I've been taking photos for my lab reports in 2.671. This ... laminar flow of nitrogen in a long tube. Notice all the wires. Each lab

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  , so I’m not complaining.   I’m in Black Valley Hostel, a ... , which is a lovely lovely blessing. I haven’t slept in a room alone since… probably sleeping in the morning after I stayed at Kevín’s. A whole night

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  associate with Jimmy - aluminum cans in a plastic bag, clanking away. I cried ... and Senior House. Big Jimmy was a legendary figure, someone I only met briefly but who many of my friends counted as a confidant and friend. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  , I attended an event called: “A Conversation with Noam Chomsky- No More Victims.” I bet you have heard of Noam Chomsky before, seeing as how he is an MIT professor and an expert in both linguistics and politics. I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions.mit.edu 18,109 students applied for ... available at: decisions.mit.edu You can log in using the same username and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  what lab I'll be in: I'll be working in the Koch Institute for ... Theory. It wasn't a bad class, all told. Circuits are pretty cool, and I ... ) - but there is a big difference between knowing something in theory and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  run a volume study on my pump and discovered that I should actually run ... down to desk and I helped him out with that. Then I passed out in a fetal ... and Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, both of which I've studied a lot

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The new wave-y pop song "I Should Be Allowed To Think ... Cloves and a Chicken. Basically you sear the chicken, cover it in oil, toss in 40 cloves of garlic, which incidentally take a surprisingly long

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  my favorite "classes" so far and, in a turn of events, I think I ... Upon admittance, I dedicated a fairly serious and borderline ... .[/annotation] So imagine me flabbergasted when I learn that in addition to all the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  while we ate. Afterwards, I’d spend a free hour relaxing in the lounge ... cool project in-progress, or learn a new skill, and I’ve come to treat ... advising, a non-credit option in which advisees simply meet with their

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being ... piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of ... " painted on its side, but I'm not actually going to tell you what it is yet

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007