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  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  college fairs. The largest was held at Columbia University, in New York City ... known as the college application process. In some ways this entry ... I say welcome! Come on in, the water is just fine. I hope that you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  Cancer Research, and in November, CCR director Tyler Jacks shared the 2005 ... -cancer drugs produced by molecular medicine--Herceptin, approved by the FDA in 1998; and Gleevec, approved in 2001. Nobel Prize-winning work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  , sustainable difference in how well and quickly students learn, how much they ... build the extended university community. Microsoft goals * Create new ... excellence in teaching, with a focus on creating experiential learning

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  colleges and universities to join us in demystifying the admissions process ... This is my last week in the office before I hit the road to come see ... any of you, I'll be so relieved to have made it there in one piece that

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  meetings in Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida; overall, we will visit 70 cities in the next 6 weeks. You can see if there is a session near you and RSVP here. On Wednesday, I will fly to Florida in preparation for my

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

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among ... well in your quest to learn more about MIT. [read more] Ben's First Sentimental Post: December 16, 2004 In what would become his trademark, this is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  about your living situation in spring, and though we can't offer you ... In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... happens in the week first-years get to happens"]REX.[/annotation]Then, frosh

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  . The following day, I got an email with an offer for a spot in the ... I'm studying abroad next semester at ETH Zurich in Switzerland! (Or ... friends and I had considered taking part in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  -MIT Institute that promotes partnership happenings between the two universities ... late but it was great to see other MIT students again. Since we live in ... -togethers. I see the other two MIT students in Course 1 (civil engineering

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past ... immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... be marooned in the desert. Sure, I arrived on campus, picked up my new

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  Giant celebrations in Boston/Cambridge last night for the Red Sox' big comeback victory against the Yankees in the American League ... Chronic Not the same few colleges: The University of California at Santa

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  that in less than 24 hours you'll be in New York and playing with toys ... the two o'clock bus and settled in for the ride. The Chinatown bus has ... issues. It was hard to sleep on (bumpy) but we got some naps in. When the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  's status as one of the oldest colonies, definitely more than could fit in a ... not fw blithely gallivanting in PR without educating yourself and being ... reserved tickets for rainforest entry a month in advance (they sell out fast

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC ... up in Boston. It’s great to come back to Boston, especially a smart ... me: I joined Pixar in 2009. Like I said I’m from Chelmsford; I went to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  new job in a few weeks. I took the offer. I told some teammates. I told ... )[/caption] So, in spite of it all, we’re still alive, and we're still writing ... changed. CJ lives in New York, where they work for Stainless, a company that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  [annotation note="not sure because the midwest isn't even really in the middle ... blogger Alan) was interested in having the team write a post about the ... that happened in these stories is based on real people and events, so

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  wasn't worth my time to apply to this university, but rather to emphasize how devastated I was by my rejection."] university's honors college.[/annotation] The day after I turned in that application, Saturday, December 14, 2019

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  Boston/MIT-area parties. At Newtonville Books in Newton (a Green Line trip ... Leigh Cook's Josie in the Josie & The Pussycats movie, or as the lead ... either -- two references to 10 Things I Hate About You in less than a year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  the father of the inflationary theory of the universe - and figured, in ... random proctor and explained the situation; he suggested that I was in the wrong building, which irked me (in the wrong building for my first final

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  significant as coming up with the idea of using a spoon to eat soup. Back in ... in the spectra of these compounds which would allow organic chemists to ... sophomore year in 1935. Luckily for the history of organic chemistry, he was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006