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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.

  

  offers a bunch of other training features that people are playing on. And I ... the age of 3, and I thought the goal was to stack up the tallest tower ... out last year about the making of tetris and it’s so great. It’s about

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

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  I asked in a rambly 10-minute-long video tour of my MacGregor single ... is a qualified lightly"]lightly[/annotation] annotated version of his email! Abby,   A Google search of MIT MacGregor House led me

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  With the influx of the 24s terrorizing (see: joining) various Discord servers I'm a part of, I've realized that there are certain things about MIT ... there is...a lot about the school that a lot of people don't know about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  vague memories of him making and offering me cookies but I am rude and I ... ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry ... . Cory is reading a book (I think it was One Hundred Years of Solitude). I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I made at the beginning of my freshmen fall. I run from the people I ... it's you. At the end of the day, you are the common thread in all of ... the pits of your stomach. And so you start to overcompensate for that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  past, all of the bloggers you see here on this site have applied using ... note="i like to think of myself as a Real Adult"]Real Real Adults ... what I had written and photos I submitted, both so you can get a sense of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [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

  

  more context (the "real" story, if you will). One of our close friends ... surprise him out of nowhere with his newly found skills. This has been a ... evolved into a larger research expedition of creating a chess engine and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  ’m Sophia, the past head and creator of the Massachusetts Institute of ... thoughts on food. (PS: Even we’re a little confused about the stylization of our club name. But we love the feel of 'mince.' It’s an action that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend of mine approached me with an idea for a ... college, and I agreed. For sake of privacy, though, we agreed that the entry ... 's worth sharing: after all, MIT has one of the best medical systems in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  twenty minute drive from Disneyland, I had plenty of opportunities to go to the parks and have a lot of fond memories there from my childhood. I went to Disney World with my dad's side of the family around the age of 3

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  awake this early. Of the four people I'm sharing a room with, I'm the ... back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of bed and put on pants. The smell of scrambled eggs brings me downstairs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  that offers up so much wisdom and perspective to all of us. I can't wait ... , especially this last semester, memorable and good. Here are just a few of them ... reiteration of my Peace Corps rec letter for you, but let this be a public

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  one of these entries takes up a good deal of time, so I'm sorry that my answers are brief, but I hope that by publishing answers to all of your ... , here's one of the things I missed on campus: Fierce Forever is MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past ... townhouse in the suburbs of northern Virginia. There were five of us in total ... luxurious apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, two of those friends the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  through some possible courses of action, and settled on: moping. First, I moped alone. During this period, I decided that the responsible course of ... January 4, when I returned to campus after winter break. *The TA of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  closer as friends and also relieved a lot of the shame we both felt ... semester was a shitshow of epic proportions. Just, ugh, you'll see. 21M.600 ... while in quarantine as a form of “creative writing”. I should have failed

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  offering Late Night). Unfortunately, due to the nature of the dining system ... must confess that it was a short struggle. The plethora of options was so ... years on the same floor, and in the same room for three of those four

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  advantage of all the cool resources Metropolis has to offer and to finally ... One of my favorite places on campus is the Metropolis makerspace. It ... possible. Kind of a tangent, but I want to shout out the fact that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  6.009 - Fundamentals of Programming 8.02 - Physics II (E&M) CMS ... 6.042 - Mathematics for Computer Science For all of IAP, I've been kind of fiddling with my spring semester schedule here and there. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  Asian Youth Initiative conference. The purpose of this conference is to ... track of everything that was happening and I will try to recreate most of ... , Sarah S. ’24 and I meet in front of McCormick to head to South Station to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023