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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Where in the World is The Nance Effect? That, my friends, is the ... ! Something Old... The Nance Effect is immersed in the annual road trips ... , MI; Milwaukee, WI; Greater Chicagoland, IL and the greatest city in the

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

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  you get in but your friend doesn't; or when you get in, but your arch ... haaaaaaated dealing with this stuff in high school, or rather, I wasn't very ... nothing was happening. To be honest, sticking my head in the sand like an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  in a cook-for-yourself community. It could be helpful for parents as ... for information about non-MIT meal kits and meal prices in general. The ... note: you are required to purchase a meal plan if you live in a dorm with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  fresh sweat and tears exuded by seniors everywhere in the midst of their ... in. And if you’re like most every regular action college applicant ... week and next. I remember this week in late March as a very scary time

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer's block recently (i.e. the ... was a tangent !!!! sorry !! ok, so, in a vacuum and [annotation note="in ... these calculations in my head) for the entire 25 minutes, i’ll have about

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  in Cambodia, Zambia, India, Ghana, Honduras, and Brazil. Luke Plummer ... -credit basis to drivers until they’ve paid off and own their own vehicle. In ... plugged in a hand dynamometer (which basically measures the force of a

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  wave my cell phone in the air.) Despite sleeping something like 16 hours ... in Beijing called Linked Hybrid. Of course I had to see Simmons' sister in Beijing before I left, so I looked up the coordinates on Google

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The ... update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of ... 't help much in the long run. I've always been ridiculously independent

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  Do You Do with a BA in English?") What do you do with a B.S. in econ ... program in economics (either Masters or PhD), though it can also be in finance, mathematics, political science, etc. Similarly, in the economics Ph

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... treasure those moments when the girls would clearly be talking about me in ... , organization, hope, and autonomy. Emerge would continue to support them in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  something was probably wrong after I had been sitting alone in the x-ray room ... the results. Oh well. Next, I spent a week in California at my first ... and was full of ambitions to write all about my time in China. I guess I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  more modern feature length films. Simultaneously, we also learned the ins ... an amazingly framed short film, i discovered as we screened it in class ... more modern tech in the form of a Canon 70D. For our final project, we

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  ="aligncenter" width="768"] Rambax and Galak Tika used to rehearse in Building N52 – a 10-minute walk off campus. Now they have a space right in the center of campus ... , two musicians can play in adjacent rehearsal rooms and not hear each

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  taken over by fill-in-the-blank item of extreme hosage: this summer, it's being in lab all the time for my UROP and working at the Senior Haus front ... just spent an hour making, I'm sitting in a chair listening to Pandora

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  : to mope in good company. I went over to my friend Sam's dorm and ... 8.06 out of the park." I will never, in my entire life - IN MY ENTIRE ... to do about it, in return. This led to the second profound moment

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  I am taking. In fact, this is actually the last GIR I need in order to ... well in this class. MIT doesn't have a separate Data Structures course ... -S requirement and luckily for me 9.00 is offered in the spring time! I'm really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  everyone involved in litter pickup — from the Massachusetts Department of ... make it to every game and most of the practices to support my team in any ... solid [annotation note="3 of the goals were scored in the span of 4

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  their parent class (8.02 and 8.01 respectively) in a previous semester ... and I actually dropped it a week after being in it. Real nervous to take ... to go, since I took three years of it in high school, every year in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  on rare earth elements, to be brief (more info in website!^^) If you ... watching because that was cute too. That was in December, only 2 hours after ... there was a storm coming in from the west. Not cute. Luckily, I had my

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  are in college time seems to slip away. It’s been weeks since we’ve had ... to study in the coffee shop. Because I’m walking again I decide to take ... in shambles. Gaping sections are missing, and it’s due tomorrow. Time

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019