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  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  million-dollar question. Suffice to say I am back and I have lots of advice and experiences to share with all of you. So, lets get started ... MIT career. I am pleased to announce that Ms. Tamy-Fee Meneide has

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  to do all the classic MIT things before graduating. Accordingly, LSC's movie marathon was one such event I had to attend. Slated for viewing for ... brought by the giant Traags to the Traags' home planet, where they are kept

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  , as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone ... journalists to spend nine months immersed in MIT science classes) - Gita Dayal ... science journalist. I went there just to get a feel for what a career in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  Friday, Nov. 24.” I can’t believe I missed an opportunity to build ... joined MIT’s Hobby Shop to try my hand at kinetic sculpture, but I haven ... a golf ball moving 1" to start your link and ends by pulling a string

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  couple of weeks ago putting their creative minds to use designing and ... use to trace with) on construction paper. 4.) Cut along the lines. 5 ... sat down to eat like a big ol' happy family. Our lovely and gracious

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this question from time to time. Many students know that math students can do ... "intro" material -- trebuchets, computers, etc. What's next? Where to look

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  to turn on the computer, change the height of your mom's office chair*, or tie your shoes. So every time one of the aforementioned tasks has to ... to MIT, though, it's gotten significantly worse. Why didn't my mom

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm ... classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 weeks into term. A tradition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  This entry brings to a close one of the longest periods of blog ... , but we are finally beginning to see the Class of 2010 truly take shape ... honored to be a part of the selection committee for the Research Science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  . :-) Physics is a continual thorn in my side, but everything else seems to be ... meeting with various faculty to shape the perfect path for the future, I ... 'm here to do is tell you about life at MIT. Selection's all over and the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our ... . This is the Boston term for a milkshake, from the French "frapper" ("to ... ], ice cream, and a tall glass to make a float. "Suds and a sidecar" is the

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  the afternoon, so I wanted to go out after and celebrate. (I am so ... already. Anyway, my point is that I had an economics exam, so I wanted to do ... that's okay. We went to the CambridgeSide Galleria for dinner

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  while people in Cambridge have not. I can't explain this, other than to ... to the holiday season, and (2) we had a major blizzard the day we mailed. Oh, and (3) the post office infrastructure seems to have its own

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the ... opportunity to meet with Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (HASS) Philip Khoury, to help us talk about and address the quality

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  , with nothing to block its view, and relatively smaller crowds, becomes a ... only, you can't get much closer to the fireworks barge. The nice folks at ... you take a sailing class while at MIT. I will reveal the #1 place to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek road bike instead.  Only occasionally do I glance to the side and notice ... to take it for granted. It's been raining sooo much lately. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  their class ring to celebrate being halfway through their journeys. The ... managed to figure it out, for the most part. [caption id="attachment_91429 ... campus, so this photo paid homage to that)[/caption] [caption id

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  living here. According to them, somebody had first smelled smoke in the ... chemical burns, but luckily these burns were considered minor (according to ... few weeks ago, a friend and I decided to figure out what had happened

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  It's been really hard to stay resilient through quarantine. I miss my ... to distract me, so I've been left to aimlessly wander the house, laying ... pandemic. In an effort to, well, not do this, I've been revisiting some old

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to ... rise to the level of a [annotation note="Although, if a minor is offered ... -developing formal curriculum to support it. And, as someone who has taught MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019