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• 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my ... there's an average of one song every 2.8 posts. The song mentioned the ... . Of the 57 distinct songs, 41 are in English, 14 are in Tagalog, 1 is in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  First, I have three very exciting pieces of news to share with you ... (Astronomy Picture Of the Day)! According to the Greeks, the Pleides were the seven daughters (the constellation is also called "The Seven Sisters") of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly ... of recommendation from different academic areas of study, we understand ... of recommendation. In some cases, you may ask a teacher who you
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  vanish from my todo-list i’m getting tired of fourier transforms these ... the mud so concerned about right and wrong The giver of permission ... the echoes murmur louder Get up and fight me Are you afraid of your own

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  to [annotation note="what sounds like an incredibly draining week of ... and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to ... Charles River on the north and the glittery high rises of Back Bay Boston on

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  ="aligncenter" width="507"] specifically from the tree in front of Walker Memorial ... ![/caption] text for accessibility: yellow aspen leaves the liminality of public ... rides This iteration of "things that are golden" was inspired by

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  makes sense, given my role.  Many of those requests, understandably, come ... from the college process.  While the specifics of each situation varies, the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  of six sestets, having the same six end words in each of the stanzas, but in a different order. The poem ends with a tercet which has two of ... have started gradually converting the rest of 4W to the cult of poetry

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a ... out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on their decisions. doing so can be exhausting and bring lots of emotional

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no particular order, of things we’ve been up to recently:  Studying for the GRE ... really liked a lot of the songs, and dance numbers. Memory was amazing, and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  Campus that I spend a lot of time on. As a honorary frosh there, I ... ), but also personalized lists for each participant. Some of my items ... ) putting on ALL of my beanies, which is a lot of beanies if anyone asks

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  ever see one of those social media #inspo posts featuring an ... containing a draft of [annotation note = "I meant to revise this throughout the ... [/annotation] printouts of my 18.200A (Discrete Mathematics) lecture notes The

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  small strip of grass between Walker Memorial and Building 14. It was called Futurity Island: essentially, a very very tall honeycomb stack of ... that the pipes (a "symbol of the Anthropocene") are drawing our attention

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  good people of Boston Spinjam are meeting on Mondays on Killian Court right outside my office for some spinspiration It's time for those of ... of MIT students are MIT students. Admissions officers can write about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  bunch of really nice pictures and want people to see them, tbh) MIT seems ... something called the MIT Outing Club. Most of what they do is organize trips ... cabins that students can use for a small fee. One of the halls in East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  photos that accurately summarize my current state of existence: The ... -students. The top photo is a week in the life of Junior spring. I’m currently in 5 ... transition this year. Plus some of my classes are “frontloading”, which

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  out the sun over a path that included the states of Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina. For the rest of ... Kresge Oval on MIT campus. The MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  It's that time of summer again. HackMIT, one of the largest ... , and realize the projects of your dreams!" Head on over to hackmit ... guaranteed admission, then be one of first to solve this year's HackMIT puzzle

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  number of things that they are worried about. Grades, SAT scores, the amount of extracurricular classes taken, etc. etc. etc. At times it seemed ... organization for lost orphaned baby whales in the middle of Africa, speak Spanish

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016