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  My Engineering Hero One of the coolest professors at MIT

  

  successful in our 2.007 Design Competition, but the rest of his lecture he spent on the iterative design process and what it takes in order to be ... .007: From the MIT News Office: "In addition to the stair-climbing wheelchair

  • by Bryan
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  For My Fellow Coffee Lovers Out 3 choices will soon be 4.

  

  new neighbor this summer - a 24-hour Dunkin' Donuts, right in the ... coffee - yep, I think I could make that a daily event, especially in the ... ) and (second) a debate about who makes the best coffee in general

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the top 20 Scrabble players in the country, and the #1 ranked scrabble player in all of Massachusetts, is a sophomore at ... unsettling interest (just kidding, I love it!) in seeing my spilt blood, here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  On Broadway My first few days of fun in NYC

  

  On Tuesday after work, I saw The Producers -- not the movie, the show. Some friends from MIT, UC Berkeley, and NYU took care of waiting in line ... for the Straight Guy performed in the show... and since I was seated in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Birth Of Baby Nance Regular updates from labor through delivery (guest-hosted by Ben).

  

  . Bryan says that anyone who guessed over 8 pounds is going to be in big ... ] Noon on 1/12/06: Finally got in touch with Bryan! Alas, Baby Nance was ... in at 9lbs, 14oz (!) and 22 inches long. Congrats to Bryan and Tina!

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  blog seems to really resonate with many in cyberspace. It is hard to ... you even weighed in with clever suggested names for my soon ... being deferred or rejected in the Early Action pool. I watched as many of

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

  New Year Notes Miscellaneous.

  

  in today. Jun's MIT classmate, Jeff Ma '94, has started an "athlete stock market," according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. The new ... the good folks at Hopkins Insider for the idea): 1. In order, what were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  .60 in depth, doing zillions of practice problems and perfecting my already ... taking catnaps and eating cookies. I've managed to get a few experiments in ... examination week will keep me from my appointed duties in the lab), but studying

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  joyfully reminding us that although she had only one final in 7 ... big screen in our floor lounge. Anyway, thanks to the apparent lack of finals in the department of urban studies and planning, she's exploring new

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  -- Hardware The Robotic Life group in the Media Lab is looking for a UROP to ... . Interest in robotics and real-world applications of technology is important! Position will begin in IAP or spring semester and could last for one semester

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selection? They're selecting the earlies...

  

  about nothing but MIT for a while. Hang in there and feel free to weigh in with comments. I'll have a couple more entries (gosh, I'm overdue) in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  by two attendees of the Hong Kong Comics Festival & Game Fair in one of my vacation photos. In this case, getting the right answer took two ... character in the picture is a modification of the 'Masked Rider' who was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some of the topics Here are some of my classmates' CI-M paper topics

  

  ' topics. Can anyone guess mine? November 29: Education in Kerala, India ... growth Demand for Coke vs. Pepsi Determinants of house prices in Newton ... 13: MCAS scores and housing prices in Newton The closing minutes of the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  three-day weekend. In the meantime, I'm going to be your very own Kiefer ... brought back Stephen King's It (in Burton-Conner, we let people check out ... fellow, I decided to open it up and look in side as per deskworker rules

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  all weekend and wake up late in the day, then stay up late Sunday night ... , I'll have a diploma in hand and some extra lines on my resume, and it'll be out with the old routine and in with another. Already, some of us

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  down as hours in class, hours in lab, hours outside of class. Hours ... opinions as well - current students reading this, please chime in) The 5 hours in class are pretty fixed. Typically, 3 hours in class, 2 hours in

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.

  

  cleaning spam from my inbox. Join your fellow Student Pugwash members in the ... information on Einstein's life, the importance of the equation in today ... and technology developments on society. Featured in the documentary is

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  would write back in the days of old at WJ Bryan. To: [email protected] From ... some of these people are supposed to be in class right now, but the ... ELEFANTES! Love you, Bryan Now back in the 90s, I used to have to rely on

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Finally back in the office! When we last left off, I'd just finished ... live in Philly know that Girls High and Central are practically next door to one another, so sticking the Masterman visit in the middle wasn

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  once a year they gather for a conference. This year's conference was in ... are reading this, I hope you'll say a quick "hi" in the comments section ... sit in the front, though, it seems. The NACAC conference also included

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005