One of my fun things to do is to get a group of experts and simply watch them work. This is how I would describe Mathew Crawford and his testwriting team for the ongoing 2008 iTest Tournament of Champions, an event we host every spring which takes the top 64 math students in the United States and pits them against one another in an elimination-style tournament...until one National Champion remains.

Mathew's team is pretty much on fire with the incredible questions they've created for this competition. It's difficult creating challenging, meaningful questions for the top 1% of 1% of the nation's high school math students, but they've managed to take it to another level.

I bring up the iTest because it is somewhat related to a new project I am starting, effective immediately: a website that takes in various inputs (e.g. GPA, SAT score, etc., etc.), with the college that you're trying to get into, and gives you the probability of getting into that school within the next admissions cycle (based on your inputs as well as previous admissions information for that school).

Yep, it's time for another side project. I am particularly excited about the business strategy behind how we're going to monetize this project. There are only two websites in the world (that I could find) that attempt to give you a probability of getting in somewhere, and they both lack user-friendliness as well as validity in the mathematical approach they bring.

Stay tuned...more info to come shortly. This little project will run concurrently to everything else going on in my life right now.

One other thing...I was pleasantly surprised to see Fall Out Boy's explosive cover of "Beat It" which features a ripping guitar solo by John Mayer on iTunes yesterday. Download immediately.