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  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  prepares to take their place as matriculated students at MIT, and future ... represents the changing of the guard for The Nance Effect. Many more of those ... . This is, after all, a community designed for and about you. When I began

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  remember at this time of the year. No matter how things turn out for you when ... mailed out on Friday!" It seems Mother Nature had other plans for me. I got ... Boston today, though I missed the day at work. I can tell you, though, that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  months of SAT subject tests and trying to figure out how to apply for ... ="perhaps somewhat naively though I think it was for the best"] I[/annotation] stopped ... stop spinning for just a moment. I didn’t know what direction my world

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  for some drinks at a nearby bar. (Actually. Those last 2 sentences were ... (which is at home, anyway) so I have to rely on Sarah for my gaming fix ... 2 MIT alums (including a former blogger) for a week on the west coast

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  For our very last semester at MIT, and our very last course 6 class ... happy with the prospects for your last semester at MIT! The last two ... best bet to be able to spend our last semester at MIT pursuing and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  terrible inside joke for people who went to MIT at the time of Spring ... for Christmas. There's an IAP class at MIT where you can learn how to ... attribute it to a few factors. The sun goes down at 4 pm. It's cold, so you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  , or at least they were smooth enough for human eyes and neat enough for ... bedbugs had chiseled at for hours and for weeks before that. The bedbugs ... ending for you. A while ago, at the start of summer, I was making my bed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  to give a colloquium at MIT. Kip, for the biology students reading this ... included about half of the astrophysics faculty at Caltech and MIT, which ... database of acronyms. I vividly remember that Professor Max Tegmark at MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  at it. No, really! Okay, so unlike some people in the dorm who live ... worse room than the year before. At this point everyone thought I was ... before (furniture rearrangement). Also, there is one very lousy window at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  then I found the statistics! For example, out of the group of 7 countries ... tickets to Berlin for the weekend of the Finale. So, I realized that I hadn ... program so far. I figure you can go look at pictures of the French Riviera

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  few of our sorority houses here at MIT. Thanks for coming along! ... , sorority life is a thriving community here at MIT, with about ⅓ of ... us spend so much time hanging out at our respective sorority houses, I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  ’ve stood in line at Maseeh’s dining hall at 12 pm for a halal burger. I ... naps into 2 hr naps. I’ve repetitively failed at responding to free food ... news. And bad news. But most importantly, it’s being there for one

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  typing. If at any point you stop typing for more than 5 seconds, ALL of ... talked about MIT, New Jersey, cool things to do at CPW, what we enjoyed ... futures. At one point, we sat down and listened to a sophomore tell us

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  off an indication that I was only there for free stuff. At first I ... on business cards, and I even snagged a spot for an interview with AT ... was ready to start forming more concrete plans about my future at MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  and such. Then she asked me what my plans were for the break. "Work," I ... ." Yep. The students here at MIT may be on spring break, but the office is still rolling full tilt into the spring. The registration deadline for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  Originally, I planned on naming this entry “Cool Stuff at MIT” and ... actually goes on at MIT, and decided that said series would inevitably morph ... first place, all for the sake of coolness or whathaveyou. Therefore, it

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  . This concert was unique for several reasons: 1. We premiered a newly ... Department here at MIT. This was the first time I had ever been exposed to a modern piece, and boy, was it fascinating (and at times, difficult to learn

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  thought I'd take a look back at MIT athletes who have participated in the ... . We're pretty good at the pirate sports: rowing and fencing are Division ... 're really good at shooting (we've won the national championship in pistol 2 of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  One of the most memorable conversations that I’ve had at MIT ... friend at the time what the best school in the world was. Without the ... established himself as a techie par excellence. His 6.170 team won the award for

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• 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 ... to exchange my piggy bank's coins. Soon enough, we were at the airport. Oh? Who's we, you ask? We equals 6 people...on our flight at least

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006