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  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  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 ... table for you. Just remember, unlike Thanksgiving dinner, the priority

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  my room left except for Adam, and we stayed up all night talking to ... Science -- because what better place is there for two MIT grads to have ... -- plus 18) to change the policy. :-P (For Karen, below: A legacy is an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  boxer shorts. And then he recognizes you. How's that for teacher ... homemade killer death robots or whatever open another bottle of Jolt Cola for ... over the summer, and of course this only increased my appetite for toast

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of ... ! I've basically been working continuously for the past 15 hours and I ... for real, so we got to see everything we've learned so far really coming

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  argue. (Mark's second choice for most exciting was his PE class, Archery ... textbook, so he didn't even have to pay for a book!   Warren ... MIT -- it takes up about as much time per week as a full-time job, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  low-fat Cool Whip to satisfy my sweet tooth. I am lucky for two things. First, we have the ability to cook for ourselves, and that gives us a lot ... came up with an idea to make manicotti with half cheese and half spinach

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  , in exchange for helping take down what's left of the wallpaper in her ... ended up doing all the actual painting with only paintbrushes. I don ... th East alum who just moved to California and was back in town for the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  2 and minoring in BME. That's MIT-speak for Mechanical Engineering and ... 's Inauguration last May. In order for you guys to get to know me a little better ... , and Spiderman 2 Favorite Reality TV Show: Beauty and the Geek, for

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  mailed out on Friday!" It seems Mother Nature had other plans for me. I got ... -checking protocols we have set up internally. So, I assure you, if you are among those ... making jokes about astrophysics," Kanamori said. For a little more than

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

  Christmas in December and July

  

  Market). Then we walked through Boston Common, up Beacon Hill, across the ... West. Plimoth Plantation, which is mostly closed for the season, was next ... answer my backlog of admissions-related questions. For a quick MIT fix

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  I'm in the Pacific Northwest, waiting for my Seattle Central Meeting ... on a non-working day. Well, for me, I decided I'd go catch the film Garden State. Still having jet-lag, I woke up quite early so I wanted to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  thinking about writing a blog post about advice for high school seniors but I ... I approached the prompts and my writing will be useful fodder for your essays. For the tl;dr, scroll to the bottom to get my general takeaways

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  ton of good reasons for choosing MacG, but this was supposed to be one of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area ... decided to "deep clean" MacGregor. This meant that, for the first time in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  . Inspired by the wildly popular TED talks, the “TIM” in TIMtalks stands for ... motivated for the summer! According to Anjali ‘12, the Director and Founder ... positively impact our students. That was one of those ‘ah-hah!!!’ moments for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International ... engineering research fair for high school students. Every year, millions of high ... qualify for more than $4,000,000 in scholarships, Special Awards (which are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  started typing up a draft for this post on my phone (which was originally ... , at 8pm you return to the Media Lab to finish up some notes and plan for ... would say, take time for yourself, because otherwise it's hard to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  AGAIN FOR THIS UPCOMING SATURDAY WITH SOME MORE ... we did! The four of us mentally claimed our tickets for Waitress ... some authority told everyone in line that there was no point to wait for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  The fall transfer application deadline is coming up. I tried to remember how I was feeling last year when the deadline was coming up…and then ... started at MIT, I’ve had a bunch of folks ask me for application advice

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  before going to sleep; I'm also planning to sign up for a reading-based IAP ... up in science. They tell me that they're equally surprised I attend a ... importance to people, but for me, I've always used it as a way to ground myself

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  people showed up for this political statistician than for a movie star a ... , for fear of skewing election results) a statistician who moved from ... for Nate Silver; it was a public victory for scientific rationalism in a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013