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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  around you, even if it's just by skimming news headlines. The sheer volume

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  you keep busy the time will go by much faster. And no matter what, you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  played Some Nights by fun. over and over on that first independent work

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  scientifically valid Ig Nobel awarded this year--by determining how the cricket ... awards ceremony in H****** Square. The "Igs," sponsored by a bunch of Mensa ... cricket? 5. How can we best improve our nation's economy? 6. Why bother to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  car on the table by itself and seeing how many points you can score. My ... ready to kick butt: I was able to score 3 engineering balls in the A bin ... in the second game I was able to score one engineering ball in the B

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  -unnerving-enough-that-I-had-to-take-a-picture, or more simply, pictures that feel a little... Off. Snow vs. Fence ... power, the pure force exerted by the fresh snow, which is usually so soft ... vanishing point"]into infinity.[/annotation] Spooky. A Car Supported By A Few

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  scores sent to us by the testing agencies. Please be sure to have the ... teacher is on the ball and sends in your recommendation in September, we ... ? What should I write on my application under test scores? This is actually

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And I am telling you I’m going And you, and you, and you, you're gonna love me.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The highest ever cricket batting average of all time was 99.94, logged by Donald Bradman of Australia over an illustrious 20-year career. Well, I sure enjoyed my month home in Harrisburg, although

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  sophomore year. pakistan vs england 2022 (such a cricket fan omg ... inspired by Alan's browser archaeology post, I started looking at the ... ) "The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot because April is the cruelest month

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  offenses try to make defense harder by spacing their five players around the ... the player with the ball (double-teams often result in the defense gaining control of the ball) if there are more players on offense than

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  ball for now. As you can see, robot A is in charge of scoring in the ... with 6 balls in it, meaning they can score a maximum of 24 points (all balls in the 4 bin). How many points is the robot supposed to score though

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  every answer. You will score over 8000. - Newton's Third Law is wrong ... reaction, there is no force equal in Chuck Norris can divide by zero. - When ... physics. With his fists. - If, by some incredible space-time paradox, Chuck

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  to decisions, can be answered by two things: having a little zen, and a ... just as good as if it just hit 28 the spin before. The ball has no idea ... by the past, or constrained by some percentage. There is no way to know

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  . The car filled with cricket sounds and clean, cool air. After setting up ... . The rain kept dripping on the three of us. He handed me the balled up ... asleep to crickets and rivers that run on their own schedule.

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  over the other teams. The basic principle is that balls are thrown by ... reporting this news by both Matt and Bryan. By my count, this is the third ... they hit the ball, but luckily I was paired with Shannon "Dongs" Dong '05

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  through hard times. We even have a play put on by students to provide useful ... , like the East vs West Water War on Tuesday or East Campus' yearly ... Massive Build-Fest Help Simmons Hall prepare for the water war by building

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  we, um, don't). They are a half-hour walk from MIT, by 3 pm or before ... by presentation, brown butter hazelnut crunch; sea-salted bourbon ... -so-distant horizon, and from that distance they don't look like they are separated by 0

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  . The idea is to get as many of these balls into the highest scoring bins ... build a car to complete a specific task or set of tasks and score as many ... also has three different types of balls that range in point value as well

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  inconsistent on both sides of the ball. Earlier this season, when the Patriots offense was setting records for scoring, the defense was setting records for being scored on; the Patriots barely squeaked out with shootouts in games

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  first national title since 1974 by upsetting the U.S. Naval Academy at the ... nationally-ranked No. 1 Midshipmen by four points, preventing them from earning ... yesterday's math competition win by MIT was unsurprising to some of you, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005