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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  had 30 million, but only 16.67 million people were able to get through ... , give or take. So - if each contestant's phone numbers (they each get two ... 's always going to be a tie. Voters just max out each contestant's phone lines

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  have until Mitra gets home to read this entry. So today the first issue of The Tech since the marathon, so of course they decided to cover it ... with an unbelievably fast time. However, they instead chose to use this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  't need to pack your schedule with APs to get into a good school. You know ... to get in somewhere good. You don't have to be valedictorian, be in the ... really wanted to take. And where, you might ask, did I get in with these

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  goes that you should not have to spend any money on food for at least ... been touched on yet. "/> Our CityDays project involved going to the Match School and getting stuff ready for the upcoming school year. A lot

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  posted in response to my last entry about raising siblings to be friends. It's truly something that I'll keep and refer to in the coming years ... and I usually don't get home until after 1AM. Each day, there are four

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  . I had already committed to MIT prior to getting on the plane, so I ... some sort of physics lab tour, and I stopped in between only to get ... when you have to get off in Florida 80-degree weather and will sweat

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  closer in the future. I decided right then and there I was going to get a ... VR. If you guys want to get involved as well, I suggest buying a pair ... Enterprise and challenge participants to dare to take the steps necessary to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  company names). Now, I’m a junior, so the Career Fair is starting to get a ... whether I want to continue in school and get an advanced degree after my ... this past week’s MIT Career Fair, I set out to discover what industry

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  happy ending, she was able to get back to sleep later and woke up at a ... So I'm trying to figure out a matrix issue while studying 18.03 and, realizing I have very little idea how to do it, I let my eyes stray to the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  get to glimpse my innermost(ish) thoughts. And by you, I mean the entire ... to sacrifice a few other things to get there) or manage to finish the ... things changed - but definitely by mid-February or so, I wanted to get into

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  In an engineering class with a lecture format, you get to learn a lot ... use each machine, we get to learn by making a spiffy Stirling engine ... to get the creative juices flowing, and in the real world it's really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  ones in which I get to dispense laughs or in which I get a chance to ... Happy New Year to everyone! As you may have noticed I've been absent from The Nance Effect. As hard as it is to believe, even I needed to take

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  "special case" questions I get is about younger students looking to apply. Often, phone calls about this to the Office will be routed to me, since I ... to get there? [Continue reading "Outside the Norm"]

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  time getting the hang of simple things that were easy to make and tasted ... allow me to actually get groceries regularly. So, I told myself that I ... I'm not a particularly good cook. I once managed to set spaghetti on

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  startup community from cities all over the US. Getting to Disrupt was quite ... finally switched over to a bus to get to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal where ... Pied Piper, but I did get to talk to companies that were working on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

  went out to the deli to get turkey meat and an exciting new cheese ... enough adventure for the day. I wanted to photograph the Charles River for ... floor. The rest of B entry had gone out to Memorial Drive to watch the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January, I’ve walked through this lobby nearly every weekday to get to my ... taking pictures in front of the seal. I’ve stopped to watch the practice

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  me off guard. To me, this was fun. I get to spend every waking hour ... . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to ... carrying on a conversation with my friends who are desperately trying not to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  calling your school to get them. For other students whose grades have been ... Hello! I wanted to take this opportunity to provide an update on the ... will be hard to choose. We have begun selection committee meetings. Thus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  weather, it's raining again, and harder than before. So I get back to my ... to go off. I go and look at my computer (which is supposed to be my alarm clock) to find that the power adapter askew enough that my laptop

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008