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

  

  one will get hurt." (By "no one," she meant me.) For all of you who call the "Nance Effect" a home of sorts, thank you for your continued ... believe that I've only been at MIT since July of 2005 and this blog has only

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... before. I was hoping fasting would bring me some sort of ease about what ... swallow any sort of intelligent thought that had survived the oxygen

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  I'll give you snippets of three actual conversations first. I. I was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM ... ..." YOU: "Uh, aren't you a premed too?" HIM: "Yeah, but I'm not one of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... around like basketballs of our more athletically inclined friends. We ... between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  software Picasa, unsurprisingly affiliated with Google? At the request of ... Mitra would secretly like to erase all evidence of her existence from the ... one about people and expect nobody to ever post videos of you. Once

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

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food ... some form of activism around food justice, but writing a blog post seemed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a ... stations, two moons, one galaxy, one bowl of petunias, and one existential

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  successful completion of the swim test (or beginning swimming class) and a total of 8 Physical Education points. It was your responsibility to fulfill this requirement by the end of your sophomore year. (Mitra note

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands of dollars each year. I mean, never mind the fact that the set of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I ... , terminating both his life and my dreams of graduating (as well as my reputation ... minutes into his lecturing, so everyone in my recitation was well aware of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  Dear Class of 2010, This will be my last entry written specifically for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  Waiting for decisions sometimes made us feel like kids, scared of the ... that kid right now, afraid of the unknown, know that there are a lot of ... way you want them to, it's easy to feel down. Look at all of the good

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not remain consistent with the high levels of integrity that you have shown in ... to MIT’s Class of 2022 have asked us if their acceptance will be

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of lots of other people! For me, this sounds like: My Worst Nightmare! A chance to freak out and embarrass myself in front of lots of other people

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a) spending three hours with a bunch of other nerds and a stack of pizza boxes ... elbow grease, carcinogenic automotive lubricant, and a home-brewed mesh of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two ... Talbot, the large common room of East Campus, the only two females ... for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011