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

  

  math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?" I armed myself ... . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... Just this morning I was reading the New York Times on line and

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

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  would be cool. In that case, I guess the liquid metal part of his system ... undergrad in chemical engineering and I have a question that none of my ... rapidly cool hot metal?". Well, that's what I've been asking for a while now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  , still in the lounge car. It is getting darker more quickly than I would ... note="growing up, I really did not understand why the Midwest was in the ... [annotation note="I spent a lot of time in high school on buses and I got very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  between 5.111 and 8.01, I headed to the Student Center for some food. In ... which Mr Knechtle would always reply, “Now, what if I slapped this man ... Australian man ever actually said was “I don't need to believe in God to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  accessorizing? Is soft serve an option, or not? What’s my day been like? Am I in ... I saw her in “Desk Set;” she was witty, she was smart, she was strong ... family-friendly, I’ll just say the surgeon general would NOT approve. I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  , layered with ice, piled in drifts...I'm no stranger to snow. But snow before ... to me and plays football, I'll be sure to check. =) In my entry about ... minute ago in this entry, I'm actaully from New Jersey. And what is it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  made such comments to explain why they didn't get in. I wish it didn ... ? The answer, simply put, is no. However, I do say this in retrospect. I ... ? I think not. So here's my challenge for all of you who got in: 1

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird ... , "please love yourself," and i'm like, "well, i'm in it already and i feel ... in a 70s band or something. it's just that the exams suck. i'm also

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  it to my students, I would have any serious applicant read all of these ... 've had a tremendous impact. In advance of this anniversary, I decided to ... 've gathered, but I am not that person. Part of the decrease in comment activity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  'm not as eloquent on these topics in Spanish as I would be in English, but ... place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  . Had we not put in all this extra effort though, our scores would have ... . In retrospect, we wish we would have really, truly internalized “it ... projects in the Maker Portfolio (we think she said yes, as long as you

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med ... years, Kathy and I have traveled to some pretty cool places in the last 3 ... , I prepared to fly back to Taiwan with an extended layover in San

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of ... burritos (I'm pretty sure they must have crack in them... so good. So ... favorite place in all of Columbus, the Columbus Zoo. I hadn't been there in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  44 Rhodes Scholars, and 7 in the last four years. Below, find Jenn's "official" biography from rhodesscholar.org (links mine): Jennifer I. Lai ... , where she majors in biological engineering, music and theater arts. A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let the Rush Begin On Greek Life at MIT.

  

  outside of what I'd watched in movies, and I didn't really plan on joining ... . Now with most things at MIT, I would suggest anyone to just check out ... a period of little sleep. I've slept maybe 20 hours in the past 5 days

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed every event individually, but, in combination, it exhausted me. I felt ... to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  things to do in three and a half days of little sleep. I would love to ... ever. In summary: because CPW. But here is more (from April 8, 2014): I ... ? When am I supposed to sleep? Will I be able to withstand falling in love

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  worked. I was in the “captain” spot on my team, a symbolic position that ... question about the centrifugal force–wait, a trick. I knew this. I buzzed in ... went unanswered, reduced to just a mark on the scoresheet. I buzzed in

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  -mechanical, fully manual film SLR. I won an auction for a c. 1975 Minolta SRT-202 in ... so kind in helping me learn to use the control board. On Wednesday, I ... entirely in the right frame of mind, if the phone rang and I was more than an

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  would get drier as the leftovers spent more time in the fridge. This ... cooker?  In short, rice cookers are amazing. I hear their younger cousin ... vegetable-haters, I hope this can be another recipe in your limited list of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020