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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  of secretly plundering the game, he decided to go to the Ontario ... If you enjoyed the story of the MIT Blackjack Team -- the movie "21 ... tic-tac-toe lottery was seriously flawed. It took a few hours of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  that is surviving an MIT semester. The concentration of emails sent to ... front of a group of people, after all. But I decided to go through all the emails in my inbox that were sent to this mailing list and pick out some of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  will be deferred to regular action for further consideration (and some of ... While reading applications, I've thought of a number of things of interest to early and regular action applicants. For Regular Action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  insanity native to jungles clotted around the siren shores of Winter Break ... -cramming. Par example: one of MIT's best A capella groups decided to have a ... stairs to soak up the rising founts of ambrosia for the ears, by which I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  gazillion followers on Twitter, so I'm hoping to pick up some of his secrets ... 's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good question, which is why I went trekking to Professor Warren Seering (my new

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... portions of the netting because the holes were too small for the balloon to ... inside of a normal balloon, and then use a metal straw to suck the air out

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  1667a.html In the summer of 2007, four Harvard graduates will go to ... persistent and preventable problem of access to clean drinking water. They hope ... link to find out more! These are the children of the town of Jazmín, the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  to spend a lot of forced time with not just myself, but the moments I ... to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine ... . Countless visits to the local diner to savor every last bite of your favorite

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short ... of being emotionally and even physically delayed..." And to think, my gifted teachers just said I was "special.") ...there's more to it, of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  with at least four pressing tasks, and the burning question of what to do ... or forget to check Google Tasks, as I am wont to do: "Feed Kristina ... top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  of around twenty questions, and, after a few months, managed to get ... to.” I was more on the side of “uhhhhhhhhh.” Scary. Matt: The first ... my sophomore year of high school. I went to a small school back in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Like Never Before Kevin Rustagi '11 talks about the MIT LMC and then some.

  

  website, as well as iTunes. Kevin gave me a copy of the CD, titled Like ... Hey you guys! I recently had the pleasure of meeting Kevin Rustagi ... LMC (Live Music Connection). To be brief, the MIT LMC is basically a

  • by Celena C. '12
  • August 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  the finer points of Food Network with Alicia '06, who actually gets to ... hopefully do lunch with a bunch of people to whom I haven't spoken since high ... . Would one of you please volunteer to present on Monday.[sic] Bill H We

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  so I'm going to try to put a lot of effort into it. Toy Design = This ... running. We're meeting with a manufacturer in a couple of weeks to discuss ... . Basically, MIT forces you to take artsy-fartsy classes in order to stay well

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• 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

  

  this website was updated last year?), and will only be able to talk about ... lead your group to one of the entries or the housemaster’s suite (located ... /people/etc. between entries, almost to the point of being 9 different dorms lumped into

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

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  force me to have a much deeper understanding of the material. Yes, you ... your best to crush my soul. You've made eight hours of sleep an alien ... starting to get a little idea of what being a scientist feels like.  You can

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  've told this to basically everybody I saw today and I feel like I'm just recklessly complaining, but here goes: Today I had a to-do list of 23 things to ... is in Atlanta, Georgia? Hey, if you came here from Google looking for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of ... best we could to do honor this tradition was talk for a couple of hours ... window. All of this (except the fireworks) is pretty true to what we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  humanities. I’ve taken classes from the history of the French Revolution, to ... ’s actually a fairly efficient method of sharing information. Harvard has its ... ="alignright" width="300"] steps of the fancy majestic Lamont library, where I used to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  only wants you to be able to use maths to solve all sorts of problems ... ? me either I just googled "hard math") To fulfill this, you're required ... there) I think it's safe to say that there is a lot of stuff that goes on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008