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  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  ). Well thanks to one of my favorite prefrosh, the dream is now reality ... left the students to their own devices. As we say in the urban vernacular ... here is much bigger than a single campus. When you come to MIT you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of work compared to freshman year; sadly, this heavier workload is coupled ... -consuming, makes sense to me. I come up with little stories in my head about ammonia

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  is in store: Saturday San Francisco/Bay Area meeting in the home of ... Okay, I admit it! I decided to come to MIT without the benefit of an ... , was a meeting held in the home of an alumni volunteer named George

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  in my last entry, the InternshipPlus is a requirement for GEL students ... company had a project ready for me to start work on the second I stepped in ... idea, and we’ll be making plans in the next few weeks to get it done

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  extracurricular activities, to trips that I made around the UK?” In this way ... learnt them in England, from British people.) These words are among the ... “the other Cambridge” *mysterious music ensues* Yes, Cambridge in

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  isn't life, and senior year is supposed to be the most enjoyable year of ... outreach to students for the season. After this, I'll head back to the office ... should I be doing right now? Schedule the interview now (today is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  - it was all very alluring and exotic to me. Growing up in sunny Los Angeles, though, I never got closer to these alpine pursuits than the pages ... time in national parks like Yosemite and Zion.  But spending time in the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  next 4 years? If the answers to all of the above is "yes!" then you ... all comes down to whether you want to be "the big fish in the small pond, or the small fish in the big pond." I think it's fair to say - and I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  't seen her blog since I got hooked to the MIT site - four months ago. Is ... in the admissions cycle, so stay tuned. Mona said: Hi. Thi[s] i[s] not ... entry where I talk about the horrible trigonometric torture I endured in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  new admits in the ATL Be sure to check the listing on your MyMIT account for the most up to date information and RSVP if requested. There is a ... the world will host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  connection is made between your page and the user. Your page will appear in the ... my druthers I would just use the Share button. But we seem to be in a ... everyone take the time to check their Facebook privacy settings. In addition

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  zombie on the loose is to shoot him. With Nerf guns. Also in the 23 ... getting your big packet in March you come to CPW and get to explore all the ... , you get to choose your dorm. You rank all of the dorms in order that you

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course, it was CPW and the weather was magnificent. But sometimes the most ... going to make me happy. Every semester or so, the MIT Press (located to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... East Campus at all in my short time so far, and had no reason to. The ... know that this is the place where I can grow, in all sorts of ways (in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  through it myself, but the basic idea is that your advising group lives in ... students in seminar based advising, but typically your advisor comes to your ... many people like about it is that you don't have to go far to find your

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  Bristol Taking an Uber from the station to the flat I’m staying in (I ... before boarding, an old man rushed over and sank down in the seat next to ... , “Of all the airports I’ve been in, Logan International is on my shit

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  . We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I ... override our other efforts to show you - in pretty much every way we can ... To those of you who received your letters printed upside-down on the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  balloon when the chocolate is set, but I wanted to somehow constrain the ... syrup, which is way hotter than melted chocolate. The trick to keeping the ... allowed to use the ants living in East Campus. The worms looked really cool

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new one to begin. I prefer the days right after the holidays, taking ornaments off the tree to pack them away while drinking cocoa and listening to

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... was this: people prefer to tell us about the things they think we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004