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• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  note="The spelling of this word is a complex thing. There's a chicken-or ... to.  The Golden Age of Piracy was from 1650-1739, and the Chanties as ... capstan to raise an anchor) or hauling task (like raising the sails). Modern

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  measure. He wanted to go to the Art Institute of Atlanta and study cooking ... 2002. Gillespie is also a new television star, playing himself on the ... .R. Hildebrand applied to MIT from a strong public high school in the Bay Area of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  UROP this summer, two of which were federal holidays) -- we decided to ... -- because one of them is an MIT grad and because Adam and Malox like to sing ... This is a tale of two college kids from two completely different

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  new to me. Trying food is a huge part of my experience here. I ... pored over whatever I could find, usually defaulting to MSNBC or CNN to ... of luck, I got an offer to join their team for the summer and am

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which ... it took to try. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us, shake it off, and get back up again

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  people. But most "reality" TV is fake nowadays and so we want to do something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it ... Convention. I donated  $20 and didn't think much of it. Fast forward to last

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  of the Putnam--but for those who haven't, it is a six-hour proof-based college math competition held on the first Saturday of December. The ... --the median score is frequently 0; in 2015, it was 2 points out of a possible

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  heartbreakingly crucial property of summer projects is that they tend to exist in ... -over study guides, that I asked aloud, “What is 7 times 47?” In the space of ... yourself a cup of coffee, and commented “FIRST!” on my blog already. Great

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  graduation/4th of July decorations were on sale, but I chose to look forward ... Two of my dear friends, Gary & Sherveen, wanted to host a BBQ ... . So anyway, read on to find out how we planned and executed the greatest

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  , someone stopped by to see me, or worse yet...it rained and why on earth ... me...I had never been on a campus tour...before yesterday, that is. It ... and now I see her every day in the house, on campus, or as I cross the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  of time” is far too vague. When do I need to leave my room if I want to make it to class (mostly) on time? What routes do I walk on a regular basis? Which do I walk on a whim? To answer such burning questions, I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the timesheets we're supposed to keep for 2.009, I've spent THIRTY HOURS working on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  arrival at Moffett Field, CA next to the small city of Mountain View. To ... waste. Pictures of NASA Ames: (I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to post these ... star when we're trying to get home. The hangar is the big thing that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  Chapter at the Black Students Union on campus. NSBE is a wonderful ... . I promise to get a better camera for my future productions. ;-) ... money to help support their continued research. 1st Place won $500: 2nd

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  covered, I wrote a very sentimental letter to the Class of 2015 on the ... out into the world, the small ritual of slipping it on reminds me to be ... ; Of particular interest to our office are the Class of 2017

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  and decide which ones they may like to live on. Conner 2, my floor, went ... noticed a severe drop off in the number of blogs, which may make perfect ... know freshmen. For my part, my first task of orientation was to build an

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is ... usually do not (and should not) know how to add or remember numbers, but we ... ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  result is below. 11:05 AM-11:55 AM: Finished my homework (which was due ... mentoring program called BioMatrix, which I have been a part of since freshman ... class (which is a requirement for biology majors and pre-meds.) The class

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  MIT homepage. Hey, anything's better than trying to work in an Athena cluster. From the MIT Hack Gallery: On April Fools Day of 1998, hackers ... . The School of Engineering will be renamed the School of Imagineering and

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  of the four students had either never been to campus or had visited ... Director and the other member of the project, asked me where Angela is from ... later meeting time and add a person to the team who had at least some on

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021