| The music is the theme song of the Georgia Institute of Technology, where your great grandfather Gould (my father) went to school. The verse goes: "I'm a ramblin' wreck from Georgia Tech and a heck of an engineer" ("ramblin' wreck" because Georgia Tech students were famous for tinkering with beat-up cars). |
| Of course uncle Art's and my school was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While it may not be fair to give you an advantage over other applicants to MIT, you are the grandson of one alumnus and the nephew of another, so, as a bit of a head start, you're invited to to see a sample question from MIT's entrance examination. |
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<---- The logo of MIT. "Mens et
Manus" does NOT refer to a restroom for male persons. It's Latin
for "Mind and Hand" (think: "MENtality" and "MANipulate").
And while we're up, here's the MIT cheer: E to the X, dU dX, E to the X, dX !
Cosine! Secant! Tangent! Sine ! 3-point-1-4-1-5-9 ! Integral! Radical! µ, dV Slipstick! Slide rule! M.I.T. ! Don't worry - it's a joke. To get it you've got to know a bit about trigonometry and calculus.... maybe you already do. A slide rule - nicknamed "slipstick"- is a wooden calculating device engineers used before there were electronic calculators. Back when there were dinosaurs.  For yet more hilarity, should you interests ever turn toward Military Engineering, you may find it informative to |
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