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  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  well. "I feel this is a great opportunity and not just because of the ... Ramirez, a product of Wichita Falls Hirshi High School who is graduating. "When he (Smith) saw that Daniel is a good athlete, he said it was a big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ZigZag Episode 6 A new video podcast.

  

  Episode 6 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is available today. Stories ... ZigZag again was fun. It was a beautiful day in Killian Court, and hopefully it will be that nice again for Commencement (a.k.a. graduation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question Part 2 An extension of the previous thread, which grew quite long.

  

  Quoting Prashant from the last thread, "Number of ways to compare two applicants from a pool of 10,500 is 10500(C)2 = (10500!)/(2!*(10498!))" I don't need to win the USAMO to know that's a lot of ways. What a lively

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  work (he went on to UCSF after MIT and is now a practicing cardiologist ... . This actually is a disadvantage during the first two years of med school ... , written, and produced by a childhood friend of my dad's. The title is under

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  's emergency-repair room. The third robot, a tread-driven 38-inch-tall rover, is ... today following a brutal hazing incident in which one robot remains ... chapter house at 3 a.m. Tuesday. One, a titanium-alloy hexapod approximately

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  clownazoo tetazoans in the wild

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  source: http://xkcd.com/863/ Last night, I had a convincing ... year. I'm not making any of this up. It probably stems from a talk I had with a double 18/6-3 yesterday, rather than some unconscious, lurking

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  because she is lucky and I am not, and since New York is only a 4-hour Fung ... define one. The maurer is a unit of awesomeness, equal to the awesomeness ... " at the end, is equal to 0.8 kilomaurer. This eventually became a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  . So here goes: The Burchard Scholars Program is a dinner ... . :) What I really loved about Burchards is that it gathers a group of ... scope of the humanities department at MIT, and claims that "MIT is a one

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  of the sport. After a few days of “erging” (an ergometer is essentially ... will to work as a unit. To not buy into that is to diminish the ... . Rowing is the total focus of the trip. We practice twice a day and spend

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  Many international applicants don't have a school counselor. The school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it ... without a letter. The Secondary School Report Form is designed for U
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  looking at a presidential election quiz; a long discussion about the ... 't become different colors. For example, what looked pinkish face-on became a ... - that somehow it's a victory for every human being. So, I managed to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  .More stuff: Can *you* curve a chunk of wood like this?Here is a CNC Router ... this photo looks dingy but no one was around! This is a space for those ... Laura did a pretty great job covering the variety of machine shops

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  points in a single basketball game. He did so in Hersheypark Arena, a ... for 21M.303: Writing in Tonal Forms 1. The class is traditionally taught around two major projects: a minuet in the Baroque style and an art song in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  by Donald Guy’s Mom Almost exactly one year ago, on a Junior ... pipes hanging from the ceiling, when my son looked over with a smile and ... supportive of my children’s right to choose, so I bought him a “

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  , faithful readers. Actually, I think the task is to "have a letter to the ... even cooler name. 4. You might think Xena is a funny name for a planet ... of, "Go to Garment District," "go to a BSO concert," "pull an all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  . Today, I'm wearing a tie, which is my custom for days on which the ... ) applications is complete. This morning, we begin regular action selection ... about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  Thanks to all of the students, parents, and EC's who made my admissions travels to the Midwest so much fun. I had really terrific meetings (and huge crowds!) in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago (both the city and

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  Chapter 1: A Formal Account of a Fancy Feast in February. Location: pika. Across the train tracks, just a few blocks into Cambridge, a big green house on Chestnut Street has a porch light on. This is pika, one of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  final exam distributions "mit does not curve"

  

  MIT [annotation note="but many classes will define cutoffs relative to class performance, which is more or less a curve; hence, increased happiness when everyone scores poorly together."]technically "does not curve

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2022