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• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  known as MIT Central Meetings. For me, this means: Washington DC ... advisor for the first time. You gotta feel sorry for the three poor saps who ... joined the admissions staff as Assistant Director for Minority Recruitment

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  was the music for "All In Green Went My Love Riding," my final project for 21M.303: Writing in Tonal Forms 1. The class is traditionally taught ... contemporary music herself, said, "Okay, so, for the songs, you can do anything

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... to go right now. Are you coming?" "...Sure!" Far be it for me to let ... happens to be an amazing photographer. Unluckily for me, I was wearing

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  for them, or to do a summer internship. The companies span the spectrum ... organizations like the Peace Corps and Teach For America. Here's a smapling of ... for technical companies. I later learned that's not the case at all (by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The German language has two different verbs for "to eat ... (fressen). I have also learned the German word for "to strike a deathblow ... classes, and a GIR). You'd assume that at MIT I could register for classes

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  Juggernaut, b****!" Also, there was a preview for Snakes on a Plane. Between ... other way around. 7. Also, for all the hype, I think that Angel was in the film for a grand total of about three minutes, and he coincidentally had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  . My entire lab flew all-expenses-paid down to Colorado for the week to ... 't get to go. While anxiously waiting for their return, I've been pursuing the following activities. 1. Playing Jewel Master for the Sega Genesis

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  bottom, mind you!) -- didn't mean I got out of writing essays for the two ... textbooks for all my classes. I read three papers from the scientific literature for 9.15 (Biochemistry of Synaptic Transmission), two for 7

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  's North Station where I would board an Amtrak train for the day. Amtrak ... schedule is advantageous and allows for many day trip opportunities ... for you, a la sub sandwich shop) on my way to the T. Descending the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  RSVP here. On Wednesday, I will fly to Florida in preparation for my ... for you? We will of course talk about admissions, including the ... discussed. How do you apply for financial aid? Should you apply for it? What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  testing requirements. For the most up-to-date information, please view the ... asking questions about our testing requirements. For those of you applying this year and for whom English is your primary language, here is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  , this. Ruth '07, field reporter for http://sam.mitblogs.com, discovered ... stereotypical to be advertising an open casting call for "geeks" at MIT, but this ... for American Idol 2, but I don't think he got to appear on television as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  ? Preparing for the influx of summer visitors. Beginning in a few weeks, crowds for our twice-daily information sessions and tours should start getting quite large (I, for one, really like the larger crowds!). As a result, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the nomenclature of a certain telecaster's forum. Now I don't care much for that ... factoring program, since I didn't know the divisibility tests for larger

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  examiners, i registered for what i hope will be the equivalent of 48 units at ... difference is that there is more room for a self-guided pace. concretely, this ... for each class in the entire term. this is because a lot of your grade

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on ... in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with ... ,[/annotation]I want to reflect on 2023, but first, I want to set some goals for 2024

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  I’ve been back on campus for about a month and a half now, and it ... -shirts before going out for Korean food with friends. Immediately, the rush of MIT ... ="First-Year Pre-Orientation Program"]FPOP[/annotation] counselor for the First

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  for. Most MIT students take an average of 1 or 2 finals a semester (and ... predictably excruciating to prepare for. Never again. I also regret not taking ... poorly done. I wound up only going to S^3 once this semester to ask for an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  in 0.2 seconds, and then proceeds to receive many congratulations for ... School, Kevin and Michelle (currently HS seniors), came into the city for ... here aren't unclean, or at least that holds for the subset I've met), and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  , interpreted for patients, and participated in community health outreaches and ... Taiwan, seeing a doctor for ailments such as coughs and sneezes is commonplace, and I remember that my mom would whisk me off to the doctor for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009