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

  

  saw and who I met. Tucson, AZ (A.K.A. Wildcats & Mr. Rattlesnake ... great southwestern food, but no fish tacos. Phoenix, AZ (A.K.A Sun Devils ... 'll remind you that I only work at MIT. Oklahoma City, OK (A.K.A. SOONER

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  the sweetest! Reaching the summit of a 11k foot mountain, Mount Baldy ... context, I'm more the kind of guy who needs 8-9 hours to feel like a ... Consulting Group. I'm also staffed on a travel case and will be doing a final

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  warm clothes. I’m wearing a ski jacket as I write this…no shame in being ... flops don’t count). Bring a beanie or else your head will get cold. If you ... ) "I’m not from a particularly warm place, but I’m from a dry place, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  summer, we are happy to announce our new bloggers! Please give a warm welcome to: Hala K. ‘29 from Michigan, who built not only robots but ... Carolina, who went on a quest to find a Pink Lemonade Celsius near her

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting ... and tell them I'm just a normal kid who chugged two waterbottles before ... Science Institute, so I'm pretty excited to declog my arteries and eat a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  prompt for this essay was to write a letter to your mother. Now, I'm not ... didn't get on a plane for the first time until two years after that. Boy ... You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  represent. Who wouldn't want to become part of a community that so generously ... . Professors don't need to sacrifice their time participating in a Professor ... though I hadn’t committed yet. I saw myself in a club (that I later joined

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  's Out There in the Real World, and also a better sense of What I Don't Know That I Don't Know. I'm looking to find a better understanding of ... times a week. I probably won't be blogging much while I'm away, but I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  K. ‘19, based on an informal survey. (Note from Maya: "This was a ... Campus if you didn't come here with three patents and a business in the ... aggressive. Jacob M. ‘20: I'm just going to list a bunch of possibly silly

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  about, even if they weren't truly the most impactful. Still, I cared a lot ... . Slowly, I realized that writing didn’t serve just as a cathartic outlet; it ... completely obsolete in the media. In my opinion, this essay doesn't do a great

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  , so when I can't, I scour the internet for a quote that's moderately related to what I'm writing about. That particular one comes from Gilbert K ... 's also my advisor - in case you didn't believe the "you, too, can have a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Written Post Oh man my handwriting is atrocious

  

  very inspired by Lydia K. '14's posts like her Dragons post. I really ... another dream about the portabella mushroom burgers last night. I made a ... a million times, because four classes at MIT is a full and very

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  Some of you may remember that a few months ago, Snively and I, as ... it under wraps until its official release. Today, I'm finally able to ... who aren't familiar with the i3 DVD, i3 stands for the Interactive

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  rejected so that the emotion wouldn’t come as a shock. I told my parents that ... wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... thought were especially comforting, and might quilt together into a nice

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  had a mini Intel STS '12 reunion! We couldn't find Adam K. '16, sadly ... friends in my class that I was really excited to see! We had a great time, and afterwards a bunch of us went to Bova's Bakery to get Cannoli

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Distance Medley (a 5K, a 10K, and a half-marathon, put on by the same ... a famous photo of me in the news. I don’t want to post it directly ... communities, but we weren’t always. In the 17 and a half years since I graduated

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  discovered K-Pop in 4th grade (it was actually because of a Ke$ha phase ... because I already learned a dance to it, don't like it, or think it's too ... . obviously, I don't have the time to watch them all, so I've developed a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  was a major difference since my CPW: THE EVENTS DIDN’T GO PAST 2 AM. At ... them filling up over the weekend, though I didn’t take a closer look. The ... stunning and poignant tribute that some people didn't realize it was a hack

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  I thought I'd take a tiny break to post a little something. I've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes ... I wrote a couple years ago (see below). As someone commented on Lydia

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  ; this can be as simple as making sure a toilet doesn't overflow or as ... classes started last wednesday! here's a cross-section of my ... .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016