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  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  (The Summer Update Edition!) Greetings to all! Can you feel that? Summer is slipping away and the crisp New England weather is looming just around the corner. (Funny I say that even though Boston had a heat index of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Postcard From The Green Building postmarked july 5th

  

  Yesterday I took photos from the top of the Green Building. MIT sprawled far below us, the lines of its normally inscrutable architecture recognizable for once as the Hacker's Map. Even Stata finally made visual

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10s in the news A series of newspaper articles about incoming MIT freshmen.

  

  Over the next week (or so), I'll be publishing newspaper articles I've collected from across the web (via newsfeeds) about members of the Class of ... 'll start with an article about the awesome Eletha Flores, and I've got about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?

  

  So I just got this email: Don Rawitsch, one of the original inventors of the Oregon Trail computer game is coming to MIT and giving a talk about the game: When: 5:30 pm this Friday (4/21) Where: Dining room of

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  It’s The Time To Disco

  

  If you've haven't yet read about (or danced on!) the MIT East Campus ... to the website Then read the News Office article Finally, watch the ... soldering! My sources tell me that when Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  The six departments in the MIT School of Science are consistently rated among the best in the world. They include: Biology, Brain and ... questions: What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  26 years ago, Doc Brown and Marty McFly traveled 26 years into the future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future ... to the future.         Like many

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Great Gatsby In all its pixelated glory

  

  While browsing through my news feed the other day, I came upon a post from the MIT Alumni Association's page that caught my eye... The Great ... by the Book, which can be found on the second floor of Hayden library

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  his hand, the first thing that Col Wallen told the Det 365 Air Force ROTC Color Guard was something along the lines of, "You see that man over there? Make sure you show him your full respect, he's the top Senior NCO

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  In my dorm, East Campus, residents are allowed to paint the door to their room. Unlike murals on the walls, which generally have to be approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is your own to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  the class I was teaching. Which, by the way, is not a bad final project ... the Digital Currency Initiative (DCI), based at the MIT Media Lab. As the DCI site says: The goal of the Media Lab Digital Currency initiative

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIVE-BROADCAST: With the Void, Full of Powers [by Mei Zuo '13]

  

  [by Mei Zuo '13] "With the Void, full of Powers"     ... , climate that is invisible but present.” Predicated by [The Void] I’ve been working with artist Otto Piene + the MIT Museum to produce

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Can you patch me through to the blimp? "Can you patch me through to the blimp?"

  

  hang from Baker to celebrate the Red Sox. We wanted news coverage, and we know that the blimp always flies over the Charles river so we tried calling our local Fox channel. I really wanted a live person to answer the

  • by Bryan
  • October 2, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are the deadlines for first-year applicants?

  at our more detailed Deadlines & Requirements page as well. The ... the application, you are still able to add them by following the “Add new test scores” link in the application portal. The deadline for
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid-to-Northern Maine with some people from my dorm. The Edwards Dam apparently didn't do much for the rainbow smelt population in the river, but it did make for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  Here’s a picture of (almost) all the paper I’ve used at MIT so far, [annotation note="also known as the first quarter, gasp"]halfway through the first semester:[/annotation] I am too [annotation note="the (usually

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  (for a visual summary of the trip, scroll down for pictures) “Let ... weekend in late April is helpfully situated before hell week(s), i.e. the ... , I had to choose the latter. One perk of being a poor college student

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  travel rushes (think The Persistence of Memory, but imagine unfinished exams underneath the melting clocks), there resides a species of creative insanity native to jungles clotted around the siren shores of Winter Break

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... actually like, so I've posted a few of the problems from my own problem sets (don't give me the answers! I haven't solved all of these yet!). 9.22 has

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  One week from today -- on Monday, October 8 -- the Nobel Foundation ... pick to win a Nobel Prize this year? Vote Now on Facebook The "nominees" come from the Thomson Reuters list of Citation Laureates (which has been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012