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• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  ) "Dry heat" huh... You know what? 99 degrees is 99 degrees. End of ... ) "Dry heat" huh... You know what? 108 degrees is 108 degrees. End of ... Even as I write this I am en-route from the border town of El Paso

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  ’t called in a week. I’ve been kind of hosed. Mom: Are you sick again? You ... , I’ve been taking my vitamins. And I’m on my third carton of orange ... , and once caught a cold in 90 degree weather. I’m still not sure how that

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  night reading and looking at pictures of the most amazing place I'm going ... insisting we take a picture: far more chipper than I   The rest of ... before noon since Massachusetts is an hour ahead of Texas and I didn't go

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  one degree of separation away. Other times it's distant and foreign ... angry with." These work with varying degrees of success.) I hoped to ... This all starts with a minister by the name of William Archibald

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  degrees all winter so when we had a couple inches of snow my town forgot how ... the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of ... a living out of doing these things.” Maita: “Like being a housewife

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  News Office reports, "Acemoglu is the fifth member of the present ... , "Number of Nobel prize winners among current and former members of the MIT Economics Department in the past 5 years: 5 Number of John Bates Clark Medal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  If there were an MIT blogger Hall of Fame, Mollie would definitely be ... with degrees in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Science in 2006. Today ... community as member of the MIT Cheerleading Team (yes, MIT has a Cheerleading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  undergraduate mathematics competition in North America. Of the top 5 students ... , Civil & Environmental Engineering). Twenty of the top 75 competitors ... Putnam exam is a difficult set of 12 questions, each worth 10 points for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  life” felt more “fake” than everything else, and because of that, I didn ... try to look for an internship, although several of my friends did. I ... of which I cared a lot about. I thought that, maybe, if I got an offer

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  still have four glorious days of summer break left, so I will continue to ... Company of Thieves - This is the kind of song that you enthusiastically sing ... . This is completely uncharacteristic of the rest of their material, just

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  So the four year roller coaster called "Quest for a degree from MIT" has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless there was more of a story than that. So this semester I had just one

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  the first day of classes is Tuesday, YIKES! But I didn't get through ... , a snapshot of the dinner table (me, my mom, and my three younger ... faculty and staff from all around MIT help members of the community practice

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  classes to graduate, an average of one a semester. I waved around that ... enjoying the writing classes and my job outside of class working with polymers better than some of my materials science classes. And it got me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  set on pursuing a degree in course 16 (aero/astro engineering). After a ... classes were just so-so for me. At the end of last spring, I made a major ... ) program. This has been one of the best decisions I've made in the past 3

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  as large-scale or well-known as that of its nearby Ivy-league counterpart, there is still a contingent of incredibly talented, committed ... on a series of fantastic shows each term. This term I've been

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs ... of stairs in the Haus when I ran to look at the Rocko's Modern Life-inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the-final-stretch/'>Junior fall</a> and I sure made the most of the extra week."]5th semester ... ™: Survive and Thrive. ...and practice what I preach of course for my two ... of a hundred battles. — Sun Tzu Start early  This time around I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  conform to the average pari-sneeze*** head tilt angle of 35.74 degrees, I ... .” Every sneeze is different. Degree of head or body tilt (before and during ... is around the time of winter break. I chose to spend my break at home

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  uninformed, this means that I 1) live on the third floor of the Burton side of the dorm Burton-Conner, and 2), am lowkey part of a cult—a rowdy ... ="aligncenter" width="535"] bombers class of '20 yearbook photo[/caption] When I tell

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  around the corner. (Funny I say that even though Boston had a heat index of 106 degrees last week.) As we get closer to September the class of 2010 ... classes, especially the class of 2011, are preparing to run the gauntlet

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006