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  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  of unsuspecting psetters to distract them for hours. Sometimes we ... with 81 cards, sets of 3, and more insanity. It also happens to be ... trying to find one. This is incredibly unlikely; boards of 12 rarely don

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  interest in learning how to make forceful arguments in written form. Studies ... ideas, awareness of audience, methods of persuasion, evidence, factual vs ... from the rise of Islam to the present, with an emphasis on exchanges and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  website or talk to friends and neighbors to find the name of specific ... answer. As part of my high school's curriculum, we were required to ... to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  , typically a Google Doc, to a webpage that gets served on the hunt website ... proposal How to write a puzzlehunt Life cycle of a Mystery Hunt Some ... that a puzzlehunt is an event where teams compete to solve a series of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  of print for decades, but for our new website, the College Board agreed ... families will go to ensure the lifelong success of their sons and daughters ... serve as a force for the betterment of society. The key for Thresher is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2010: Wondering Where Everyone Is Living? Find orientation housemates/roommates.

  

  database of housing info for at least half (so far) of the class of 2010, so ... ! If anyone wants to add themselves, his email address is on the page. The address is: https://scripts-cert.mit.edu/~paniagua/tempdorms/index

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to ... from the womb of Google search statistics. What follows may be read as a ... daily existence, turns to Google and utters through his eternally

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  hours of inactivity,[/annotation]which tends to keep things pretty clean ... 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds" by Shakespeare "Autumn ... - my wing and I used to memorize parts of this poem, and I'm still not

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  to the 3rd floor lounge tripled due to the stepping-over of crowds of ... -meta-puzzle allows you to run around wildly on campus in search of the hidden item ... Ginger Rogers instead of actual clues, (4) a PDF that appeared to be blank

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  , you get to choose your dorm. You rank all of the dorms in order that you ... can't possibly expect me to live in McCormick!). You submit all of your ... standardized. All the dorms have different internal methods of rooming and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  best way for us to use Facebook pages? Groups? Does Google Plus help at ... right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few months, in the hope of generating some kind of useful conversation here in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  clarify exactly what a sorority is. According to the Panhel website ... sorority life at MIT (http://web.mit.edu/panhel/www/index.htm). Want to test out the waters of sorority life? Come tonight to the first round of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  , and instead of being forced to eat spaghetti with no utensils, there was ... coordinate the GEL1s. Check out their website to learn more! Our journey to ... to Scheduling, Critical Path Method. I’ve been more and more interested

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…

  

  thing I can do for you is to connect you with things that will give you a richer college experience. You'll figure out for yourself how you want to live the next four years, what you want to do, whether you want to care

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  basically had to do a lot of networking and running around and cold DMing and ... kinds of interviews. This is not meant to be an end all, be all guide to ... management for a couple of a reasons. I'm a People Person Contrary to what I

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

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  polytrope of index 3, by coding a 4th order Runge-Kutta method; if that sounds ... to the back of the room. When he returned, he piled a Middle English ... a short quiz, to test our grasp of the language (Middle English

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  , thousands of fans showed up at Boston's City Hall to watch the Final ... yesterday when thousands of soccer fans streamed onto Hanover Street to cheer ... Congratulations to Italy on their World Cup victory. The celebration

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  around the corner. (Funny I say that even though Boston had a heat index of 106 degrees last week.) As we get closer to September the class of 2010 ... classes, especially the class of 2011, are preparing to run the gauntlet

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  something and have access to the Internet, you can Google it, which will ... even have to be at MIT to do it.  Art of Problem Solving My ... calculus teacher directed me to ArtOfProblemSolving.com (hereafter

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the ... fun :)"]Red Line to Central[/annotation] and shared a pack of mooncakes ... ?” someone asked. According to Google, 6:00 pm. “How long does it take to get

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023