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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 ... little corner of cyberspace! As always, we have reserved a place at the ... college fairs. The largest was held at Columbia University, in New York City

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

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  -discussed Stata Center at MIT, also designed by Frank O. Gehry and completed just a ... I say, "Well, even if you don't like all the architecture at MIT, at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  House too. Clearly, I changed my mind. Just like most things at MIT ... experience, because I've found that living at ZBT I have a really strong ... and turf dinners at the houses the first night of rush. Parents, to a

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  Square on Sunday night, ate ice cream sandwiches at home last night, and ... requirement is completely obnoxious. But the people at DAPER like to keep themselves necessary, I guess.) 3. Mike asked, At MIT, do you have to do a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  American History, colonists at Charleston did better by stealing the tea and ... me at all, unlike Spiderman 2, where the value of an eigenvector can be ... inappropriate, because I saw it in Harrisburg and not at MIT. Also, my 8

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  design is cool. I used to be pretty good at it, but then I stopped learning ... destroyed the entire page!!!"), but I find it really rewarding at the same ... 's pretty cool to look at a page I created and take pride in its

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  this term, wrote an opera based on The Great Gatsby that was premiered at ... think that thus far, 5.13 has been my absolute favorite class at MIT. I ... are great at decorating their floors and ceilings (that's Fort Awesomer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke ... hour later. That's how tired people at MIT are. Thirteen hours later, having not left campus for home at all, I triumphantly completed this thing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  was at the MISTI Gala Dinner for all interns going to foreign countries ... . You know you're at MIT when you would consider forgoing a Nobel laureate ... , they pronounce diphthongs backwards. We'll be going to Switzerland at the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  biology courses at high-school level focus a lot on reciting things, and I ... that biology is different at the high school and undergraduate levels, particularly at MIT. Most of what I remember from high school was doing things

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  kid in high school and standing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon looking up at my time made me feel like I was standing on the ... feel great at the finish line, you'll still have a lot of people cheering

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  they need to admit. At this point, colleges will begin admitting students from the waitlist. Students who accept this offer will "unenroll" at the first college and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead to a second

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  at the same time hopeful that the students we couldn't find room for at ... to Engineering & Science (free) summer program at MIT. And again, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  't worry about it. Shaye: Really? Wouldn't Bryan be mad at us? Yuan ... we met at Harper's Ferry? Shaye: Oh yeah, we'd gone there to audition ... at MIT. A cappella, symphony orchestra, concert choir, WMBR student

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  students in attendance! Background: There are five sororities at MIT, four of which have houses. We help our party at the AXO "Mansion," which is ... !) At 9, we opened up our doors to everyone. I saw a bunch of friends, old

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Am wrote: "I was admitted early and definitely plan on going. At what ... should aim to keep your grades at or near the level they were when you were ... of these answers - we are not considering the Writing score at this

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  IAP without learning a little bit, at least. Let's hop in the Techno ... 'd spend 4 hours every Saturday at etiquette school trying to learn how to ... "Pomp and Circumstance" on the kazoo. We did arrive at Charm School

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  , it would be ice cream. Fortunately, here at MIT, ice cream is only a ... went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our ... , I never really do the Ben and Jerry's thing. I can buy that at the

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  in the sink at all, ever, for any reason (or in any other constantly ... Marching Band at Royal Bengal, a pretty decent $7 Indian Buffet two blocks ... Burton Conner Ski Trip leaving tomorrow for Cannon Mt. at 5:45 AM sharp

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  ), but I can't go home yet because I have 7.31 at 3:00 in the Whitehead ... TA waves at me, says "Bye-bye!", and points to the board, on which is ... test can sometimes be a very good thing at the end of term. Second, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005