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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.

  

  ; Back on topic, what does it mean to crash Tetris? Tetris is marketed as ... which is the specific version of the game that I play the most, and that I ... score is up to 611,986"]477,000[/annotation] on Tetris.com? Pretty good

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

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  ), I've worked at the Computing Help Desk, which is part of Information ... it's like to be the person on the other end of the line when you place ... 'm waiting, I check out the "queue," which is a list of all of the unresolved

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church ... to me was this, paraphrased: Baltimore is better than ever. You ... . Here's a series of photos in which I explain that: this is the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  , which is a real classic MIT experience). Here's what we got up to: I ... ="59152" /] On our return, I did several loads of laundry and went to bed with that ... evening, after a protracted battle over which movie to watch, we settled on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  moving on to the next song when one of the music directors of [annotation ... happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In September, I had auditioned for seven or eight [annotation note="this seems to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  answer requires more than 50% of our comparisons to be wrong, which is such ... 3”, which usually amounts to one line of code. Think about how you ... % of the time. To give you a better sense of ALG, observe that it hinges

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  department is here, and the list of faculty interests is here. I promise to find a better answer to this question the next time I run into one of my ... there is a sort of coordinate system for buildings on main campus, and you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  is “Even Better than the Real Thing,” alluding to questions of ... took me about four hours to get through all of the works on display ... , like clouds or waves, and abstracting them to the point of pattern… The

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  closed to everything except essential travel. (Which included "work or ... next to one of my housemates or we laugh over some dumb MIT in ... , flying is not looking so hot right now. When I moved back to Cambridge this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  . München! I went to München! Or Munich. But München is more fun to say, and ... also went to the Alte Pinakothek, which showcases a lot of old artwork. A ... depending on what you need to accomplish therein. One is labeled with a drop

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  seems to be some sort of parade or festival every other week. And they ... makes Seattle the city it is. For lack of a better word, it ... Needle is one of five, and together they play music based on how the people

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  lead your group to one of the entries or the housemaster’s suite (located ... their temporary rooms, what better time to talk about housing? Even though ... the different dorms on campus. If you officially decide to come here

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... beds and a staff to take care of you day and night until you're better ... nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  of MIT's new Initiative on Technology and Self, which is working to ... and foremost purpose of going to college is to learn, but I'm torn about ... . From the assignment: "The nature of the comparison is up to you, and the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  , which amounts to sitting in the living room with my headphones on while on ... , one of which is taking a gap year. We all know each other from Floor Pi ... Park. It's a fifteen minute walk, which is a nice opportunity to think

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

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  things about MIT so far is that you can show up to pretty much any event or ... , which is one of the reasons I like it so much :) [annotation note ... drove two hours to New Haven on the morning of and two hours back the same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  is this goal or will I have to take significant amount of loans? If the ... whether there are classes offered on campus or if it is possible to take ... form supposed to be postmarked by May 1 or received by May 1? The form is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  free admission to a lot of nearby museums, which is really cool. ... .022 Physics II pset, which was due yesterday. On the right is a scale for ... back was me practicing calligraphy, which is one of my hobbies. In the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  (all of which is nice, but highkey weren't that user friendly or reliable ... guest lectures on a variety of topics to give more specifics on industry ... learning (which is becoming increasingly less likely), the variety of these

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  Beauty and the Geek. The concept of the show is to take eight geeky guys ... quotient? A: It could be. Or it could be that the potency of geekiness is ... of MIT one semester short of graduation to pursue acting. Based on his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007