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

  

  to business. Find below the best 23 Chuck Norris MIT appropriate jokes. I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25, a number I like much better. Feel free to add any Chuck Norris facts

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

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  eventually cropped down to the final prize winners. I know you're saying to ... Nobel!" More power to you, but here's what you're up against: In the category of ... enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other. In the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  miss being here just the same. There was so much I wanted to tell you ... silly to go back and try to write posts about that stuff now, so this post is dedicated to my favorite memories from Fall 2007. Navy

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to ... later) scrambled to borrow a laptop and sent in an application. And - I ... for me: If you'd like to post the link yourself on your blog, or just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  Before we get into it, I need to address a question I've heard a few ... opportunities that await you. I need you to think a little more about the "no ... , your UROP. MIT tells you that you have a chance to show off these groups

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 ... looking to dive into a theoretical physics book. Truth be told, you're looking to do something as mindless as possible. And this is where my

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  Question One Elizabeth asked, I have one... I was talking to my dad, trying to make decisions about this whole college application thing, and he said if I were planning on going to medical school I should definitely

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  wanted to go there. Only she didn't - she couldn't. Her family, which had ... , Lozada had to work, and later, she started a family. Today, she will see ... MIT, the No. 1-ranked university in the nation, according to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  is, well, after high school I went to college, and I applied to MIT ... early '80s, they were doing a big push to get a lot more girls to go into ... I can do that. So I applied to MIT and I got accepted, and then I took

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but ... Jojo and Diane, who rocked the reg desk next to us for many hours. After 11 hours at the reg desk, I headed over to Thursday night's opening

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  ended at 11 on Friday after my last class and I had only 28 hours to do ... with the bloggers, I headed over to the CambridgeSide Galleria with Mitra to pick up a travel book. (Yes, I waited until the last minute to

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  "yield"), we admitted 1474 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to remain on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  Friday, MIT plans to dedicate what it bills as the largest collection of ... close to one another and to such neighbors, researchers in the $175 ... opportunity to collaborate in ways that promise progress on some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  Once upon a time, there was an application to MIT... It's a Monday ... down to read my applications, one at a time. I start reading the ... community? a university town? Sometimes I'll use the power of the web to help

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  Sometimes I secretly wish for exciting things to happen to me so that ... allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all ... class here. But it's kind of nice to know that I can until almost three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  thing, you're talking to someone who loves sleep. Sleep and food are two ... wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... for thirty years, and how helpful it had been to science, and then I was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  to all sorts of cool places to visit. And one of the great things about going to MIT is that you have a long weekend nearly every month. Last weekend, I woke up early, packed some physics notes, and headed to Boston

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  precious. The upperclassmen started a pool about when they'd start to put off ... holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I took an informal survey of people sitting around the lounge to see what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an ... hometown area. There's no need to bike/fly/hitchhike to Boston for your ... will waive your interview. It is your responsibility to check your My

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  populations. I've come to see the Internet (and now blogs) with a strong ... you a backstage pass to the theater of the absurd, better known as ... simple reason: I didn't feel that I had anything of substance to share. But

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005