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• 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 / 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 / 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

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time ... Hrabowski's incredible speech, after which Marilee and I went in search of a ... to be clogging our in-boxes. We located said wifi connection in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  going on titled "Youth Culture, Music, and Cell Phone Branding in China" over in Sloan but I won't make it there in time. A later passage down

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX continued The rain killed my hawaiian outfit.

  

  kickoff that started in Kresge. The real fun started at about 5 pm on ... , so I decided to go home early. Tonight across most dorms, in ... manpower to move them in. Now I've yet to comment on CityDays or the Student

  • by Bryan
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  blogs MIT Admissions would launch in 2004. Now, with more than a dozen ... : November 3, 2004, entitled "(Q & A)^n" First Omnibus with "Omnibus" in ... being published, I'm enjoying some down time in Taiwan. But today I do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  , English & Environmental Studies double major, minor in film Favorite things ... Special at Dial-A-Pizza (in Somerville), Walden Pond, the Public Garden, 80's night at ManRay, the way the air smells in the fall, our kickass

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  graduated high school a year early, and had a few friends at MIT who came in ... successful college/MIT student? I'll be happy to answer any questions left in the comments about this -- or any other topic -- in my next Questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions Round One What's going on in this picture?!?

  

  if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Often I don't even ... of them submitted in blog comments) 13) My bag, which contains many secrets So - what's going on in this picture? Points will be awarded for

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  the say 20 times I've drank it in the past two months, I think I've paid ... I am. After waiting for an hour in line as they set up for the ... and prevent us from going up in the balloons. Stupid wind, GOSH! (Sorry

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005