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

  

  stage at the Battle of the Bands. My colleague and fellow blogger Ben ... was the highlight of my tenure at MIT. Just as I've acknowledged the ... change gonna' come." For the greater part of my blog's existence, many of

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

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time ... a list of numbers like 2,3,9,15…, the running sum starts out at 0. You ... answers it computes to be correct, and if at least one of these answers is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  In times of economic crisis, Random Hall perseveres in upholding the traditions that temper the pains of work and study with the welcome relief of warm homemade dinners. A late-evening meal at Random Hall tonight was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  From reading your applications, I know that many of you would be very ... program. Sponsored by the good folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, the program provides scholarships of $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  part of my first semester at the institute: 7 classes passed Somehow ... Management), and 14.009 (Intro to Economics in Society). At the beginning of ... screamed at me when I was not taking notes that it was because of kids like

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  comes when I'm standing at the west parallel of EC, since I can see both ... Sarah O'Connor was one of my 5.12 professors at the time, I stayed after ... with a grad student at the start of the fall term. Since last semester

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  March of 2024. The second [REDACTED] Family Dinner occurred just last week–at ... different personalities and different goals and at different stages of their ... assembled a mailing list of faculty, grad students, undergraduates, and more

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  series of puzzles for the heirs to solve. At the end of the book, after ... foot (the American way of travel - look at how much Americans jog!) the ... My most vivid recollection of a July 4 celebration came from a book

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  production of the cells. Bryan has been at the BPEC for six months and found ... glancing at his list of extracurricular activities that Bryan is really taking advantage of his time here at MIT. He also participates in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  : Number of hurricanes dodged: 1 Meals eaten at Columbia restaurant: 1 ... Dorothy Hernandez, 20, a native of New Orleans who studied architecture at ... efforts. Today at 4pm is my second Central Meeting of the year, in West

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  of media, from USA Today to CNN and space.com. Full article at http ... . The jets shoot off at 175 million miles per hour, 26 percent of light ... in Richmond, VA. I had lunch again at the Steam Cafe, which is turning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  ="aligncenter" width="300"] An artist's impression of Ada Lovelace[/caption] At the end ... Classes at MIT will have you looking at a subject from about three ... think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Plus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of ... from at other schools. And it turns out that, though all of our offices ... out, all of the IvyPlus schools had cut at all of those layers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  on the grandiose vision of ‘goodness’ I had settled on at the age of ... Charles at midnight. And yet, for all of this, I am still deeply tired ... all ways better than all past versions of myself. I have, at points

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  excuse to sit at one of the cafe tables and [annotation note="I was ... there was one leaving at 2:40 AM, then the next one at 5:30 AM. Neither of ... guy at the counter recommended I find a group of people to split a cab

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  sake of getting this deal. At some point, they started requiring a unique ... , you can read the resistance of a resistor by looking at the four colored ... marveled at the rows and rows of independent comic artists, from published

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  at least once my freshman year when I was a part of the Media Lab ... of having a yearbook photographer at the dress rehearsal." And this is ... photo at the beginning of this blog was taken by Nicholas Wiltsie

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events ... embarrass ourselves as we teach you about them on the spur of the moment ... night, I randomly pull up three of these prompts randomly, to practice the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  I always seem to know I’m back at MIT when I can vaguely hear my alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up ... -wee soccer in kindergarten at the ripe old age of 4 and since then I have

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  just recently came to visit us at the begining of February to screen Be ... well-fed days of my collegiate life. Lunch was at an organic French ... throwing together everything you have in your refrigerator at the end of term

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008