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  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  a tough sell. I thought that all I had to do was to show up and tell ... grounded and relevant. On those days when I wonder why I do this for a living

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  's limited to 100 students in a lottery. So, we'll see if I can do it. I ... who still don't have any idea what they want to do with their lives. If

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  an MIT woman. I'll say right up front -- although I do understand why ... as you're smart and good at what you do, nobody cares whether you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  Although I do make active attempts to avoid goopiness and introspection, sometimes they creep into my life nonetheless. (I'm the daughter of ... pressure to work hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  fluorine was a good nucleophile or if it was possible to do an SN2 reaction ... hall. Do you see how terrible I look next to the radiant Dr. Tabacco? She

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

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  doing her MEng in the EECS department, but she told me she couldn't answer ... email), "Do you consider MIT graduate biology? I have heard somewhere that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  -and-black barcodes on the sample playing field. We do much of our work in 38 ... what we've been doing. The final contest is on February 3, so expect more

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  'll do an entry on MIT campus legends, if I can recognize enough of them ... back on, but here's one thing I do know: shampoo commericals make my eyes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  that may be six, since I'm still waiting on one. You do want to get ... SAT, you will probably do well on the GRE -- they're pretty much the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  this morning to harvest my cells. The good news is that I'll be doing two ... do this again?' But I digress. The indomitable Adam won third place in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  's exactly what you hope to do when choosing where to attend college. The same ... would you like to see in print in the coming year? - What do you never

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  , and do not have to choose a major until the middle of their second term ... object lesson in what not to do. As I've said before, I had decided to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  You'll get another new entry today as I work on my 20 page paper. But, until you do, here are three things you can contemplate: DID YOU KNOW? 1 ... !"). Unfortunately, I would have had to run like an entire marathon to do that, so I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  begins! 3098 applications, up ~10% from last year. Doing the math, it ... , it will be Friday. I'll keep you posted. I hope you all are doing well

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when I "grew up." Having been a computer nut since age four, I happily ... I just got here.) So what have I been doing since my last update

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  , Akash asked, "Hey Laura, do you have any bread?" Now I'm a friendly kid ... of work to do. I maintained that the awesomeness of a sneak preview

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  them personally? Anyone who tried to do this at MIT would run into ... of the past, I hope I'm doing a good enough job helping to make it a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  possibly the most bizarre sleep schedule known to man, and doesn't do any ... you want to do will expand to fill all the available space you have for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  much as their male counterparts do. The world simply needs to do more to

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  we do "A Salute to Walking," since we have sheet music for "Walk This ... beavers all. And when we get together, We do the beaver call. e to the u, du

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005