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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

  

  Meetings for the better part of September. Here is a quick update of what I ... I'd throw that out there. What a great town. I got a chance to be ... beads in an empty soda can. I wish I could tell you what he/she/it looked

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

  Pie Day at the Massachusetts Institute of Tasteology the Institute Has The Finest Pastries on 3/14 at 1:59 PM ET in the year…

  

  classmate in 16.01: Unified Egg-gineering) for about two weeks—before I ... ="123648" image9="123649" /] In total, I counted thirty pies across campus, a ... I was hanging out in the Banana Lounge recently, procrastinating on

  • by Ratatou-Ellie F. '28
  • March 6, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  just spent an hour making, I'm sitting in a chair listening to Pandora ... was hilarious. (My A key is sticking again. Maybe I should find a way to ... Oshima (Director of the Artist-in-Residence Program), and I went to the MFA

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  interesting. :-) In a nutshell, I'd had trouble getting in touch with the ... 150 in attendance. So I'd booked a room that holds 150+ and figured ... 're the director of a math/science academy? I know the spelling's not a

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  in the lab -- when I learn a new technique, I write all the steps down ... Gregor rooms' size. I consider MacGregor as my first choice in housing lottery, but some slarifications is needed. What is it in feet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM ... by the ARC - so my knowledge thereof is a bit limited. I just spoke ... enormous pile of folders they have waiting to go out. So here's what I can

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of ... car. In one sense, I am bringing the old me to a new place, where they will mix and change each other; in another, maybe I am bringing a new me

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  the rain, I didn't ask. He maintains that he is in fact NOT making a ... (I know where that is! yay Google maps.) and will likely be in for a ... person to get their picture in before Valentine's Day officially ends. A

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  pressure to get A's in high school, although that doesn't mean I actually ... generally had a few too many irons in the fire. From the journal: I am so ... 't about being boy-crazy. First of all, this was me in high school. I think

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  , In Time ), and I have to decide how to spend it. MIT is a culture ... AVERAGE!! Friend 1: Man... in high school when I got a 95, I used to think ... new opportunities (I'm sure many of you are similar). In the past, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  vacation at the end of a busy winter break, and I am excited to dig back in ... soon. I am sitting in a hotel room in Palo Alto that is, perhaps, a ... is well, out in the American West; we will just have to see whether I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  remembered what it was like to live in a place without public transportation. I ... People often find it shocking when I say it, but if MIT was in ... Illinois except directly in Chicago, I'd continue to suffer from my high

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  wasn't an announcement or a tongue-in-cheek joke, and the one before that ... took a short stories class in junior year. A lot of the time I used to ... of my major-related classes in sophomore year. I had a lot of doubts

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  or other, so I probably won't get a chance to do it tonight. Anyway ... until I get a chance to get all the pictures together, here's a poem I wrote when I was seven: Seen in Winter Never Summer Oh, he's melting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  being a positive thing for me in the long run. What are you working on ... saw? (Apr 3) I went on a tour of MIT the summer before my senior year ... starts closer to 2:39:00. I was in the red MIT boat so I had a slightly

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  Center, where I work most mornings. As usual, I looked up in Lobby 7, more as a perfunctory check than anything else, and low and behold, there actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  twenty in four days.  I always cry on my birthday. I think this is a ... . For the first time in a long time, I let a friend see me cry - not ... often. Believing in one’s own infallibility is a dangerous drug. I’m far

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence ... where you come in. Decide my fate! Vote what major Shannon should choose ... about biology from a chemical standpoint. I also took 5.112 in the fall

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  forget, which is that even in a diverse community of geniuses, scientists ... . In honor of International Women's Day, check out Ursula K. Le Guin on ... class of 2016) released a report on the status of undergraduate women at

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  any other Harvard building I’ve never been in. I sat with a dear friend ... the eggs. One rolls to and from me in a breeze I don’t feel, like a boat ... . I should get what I can while I'm here.

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016