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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  to get your rational mind with your emotional mind working together to ... of weeks ago I had to decide what I would do over the summer. On one ... Orbital, and on the other side, I had the option to join a team of students from

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to ... Ξp is what it sounds like: a week dedicated to working on the house.  t ... courtesy of Toolever Of course the five screws on the sweep have to be old

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  This is the way…to check your decisions

  

  sure you are ready to receive your decision before signing in to decisions.mit.edu. In order to verify that you will receive a decision on the ... blog post — want to let you know that MIT Regular Action decisions will

  • by The BlogChild
  • March 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  in a team with an MIT alum as a mentor to work on our teamwork skills ... .  We chose to present on the issue of dorm security here at MIT, and ... people have had similar things happen to them or are experiencing new

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  't anywhere near enough to get us close to winning, we all had a ton of fun ... : "If you want to do it with animal lovers..." Me: "That's going on my ... Massachusetts General Hospital, which means that every now and then I get to visit

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  3. learned about cornhole 4. went to Nightmarket It was a very good ... totally arbitrary order, starting with number 2. My first exposure to Rocky Horror was, to the chagrin of many, actually a fairly watered-down version

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  well I needed to do on the next exam to get an A in the class. I thought ... 's or about getting in to your dream school. "Being the best you can be ... would have sprinkled holy water on it if I had access to some. If someone

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  fabulous experience which challenged me to stretch the limits on my ability to find new methods to approach problems." 21L.003 (as taught by Ina ... really cool and different way to express things that were on my mind or

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  ...here we are). This past January, I learned how to code (again). On a whim ... right, hoping to get something. And by magic, and by sheer luck, I managed to nab an internship at Microsoft as a New Technologist, where my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  Symphony Hall, so if you were to use your free College Card courtesy of Arts ... deal before you offer your intelligence :) for those who want to join ... friend would randomly send me a puzzle to solve that would help me later on

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  thing and if you're considering getting an IUD, then you don't have to go ... you're on the basic plan, you can get them prescribed at MIT Medical and ... of contraceptives that you can get depend on the type of student

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  dexterity, for getting out of a rut. I have a new confidence and a better ... felt that I had stories to tell and no means with which to tell them ... forcing myself to learn to write longform. Poetry taught me how to capture

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... Seattle because I wanted to try something new. I'd heard from many people ... you're on a different planet. The grass goes away, leaving the chewed

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  like to do your laundry in New House? Sam: Sure. Me: Okay. Wear a suit ... WASH YOUR TOWELS. To understand this, let's return to Saturday. French ... Lucas came over to check on me, which was very nice, and a bunch of French

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  's fine. well, depending on what your view is of "much", this isn't true. i ... -thirds of the way into book 3 of a practical guide to evil. i went on lots of ... you're probably doing fine then? cj: not as if you'd know how to make it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  . The idea is to get as many of these balls into the highest scoring bins so you can get more points than your opponent and win and get to go to ... comes down to chance. So on to this year's competition: "I have to f

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  bad about asking my company to spend a lot of money on me, I decided to ... the address on my company website is not the exact address of our office ... eventually get better? Also yes. I learned how to time my throws more

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  excellent introduction to maker culture and allows you to get dirty in hands-on ... not had the energy to do so this semester! Let's get right into it ... training. For this, you had to do different modules based on which track you

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  sometimes I get on my computer to check my mail and somehow spend five hours ... . I refuse to get another 47 on another organic chemistry exam, so I ... hours on a MONDAY. And I got to sleep by 1AM, and then I woke up in time

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  ’t want to read all of this boring stuff, skip right on over the stuff about ... ).     Lastly, I went to a firehose lesson on physics (and also ... numbers 107 and 105 on the raffle and I was 106), I went back to the student

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008