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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  intuition to make a difficult choice in the past? Has peer pressure made you ... university to attend. If this is you, I hope these words help decide. A couple ... side, I had the option to work at a startup in Cambridge called Geo

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the ... ’t believe me if I told you’ serendipitous moments that make up a normal day on ... the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  course of my life make me who I am. College will just lead me to another ... If you're applying early (to MIT or elsewhere), you're probably ... , you probably aren't. For well over a year, from my rural roost, I sort

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  suggestions, I tried to make a Bayesian model for how a player's confidence ... scene. Autostitching can be used to make panorama shots and even "mini ... creating robotics simulations like these. A lot of time was spent trying to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  , 6/2/2018: CAN I HAS THE SCOOTER[/visually_hidden]   To make a ... , the bearings in the steering column were a bit wonky, making it hard to ... described as a golden retriever bounding between everything from scrabble to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  a particularly good entry, they happen to deviate from their work and ... will inevitably follow, from denial - searching for a clipboard log - to vengeance - spamming the owner of the guilty site - to acceptance - writing a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  how to CPW. What makes CPW special (a partial list): It’s nerd ... long showers. “Oh, I gotta remember to audition for a capella!” “I could ... ) are so important—they’re designed to give you a glimpse of what life

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  Kansas City, I had a 6.006 (Intro to Algorithms) midterm later that day ... throwback to last year's Eastern Sectionals, as I was vying for a spot on the ... and trek over to the Skating Club of Boston, a 20-minute Uber-ride away

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  trip to Rhode Island, a tour of their model making department (I know ... class from 9 units to 15 because it's not a low time commitment class ... then just make it, market it, and sell it. Awesomeness! 2) I got a job

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  Llama to make what we like to call: The Equalizer. -Cue awesome sound ... blasters connected to a backpack which served as a massive ammo hopper ... began to make such an awesome toy. Well, we began the design process by

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Paris or Nicky). Headed to Loomis Chaffee for a school visit. Didn't get to see any students (apparently a bunch of them had come to my Hartford ... to come see me today - heh) but I did have a great conversation with

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  really a hard concept, just hard to apply : Spend less than you make ... . Tally up how much you make in a month, subtract out anything you HAVE to ... Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  like H-Mart and Daily Table. So, once a week, I make the trek to Daily ... 't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of ... that Cambridge is a strange place to host a purgatory. I suppose I never

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  EA Blogger Application Decisions The results are in.

  

  enthusiasm is a testament to the success of this project, and Admissions ... what you actually came here to get: the results of the EA round. For a ... defer all of the rest to the RA round. A big huge welcome to our newest

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  nights and interesting experiences, I want to reflect a little on my first ... east coast to a state you’ve never set foot in. But on the other hand ... -on suitcase, and a newly purchased MIT sweatshirt that I probably wore to school

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  '07 and I went out to dinner at the Porter Exchange in Cambridge with a ... still used to be a pretty popular hangout when it was home to the Anna ... was able to get a lovely chicken and egg dish, much like the one that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to ... the helper functions. Functions to make test cases. Helper functions for the functions to make test cases to help me figure out what the FLIPPIN

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  because she's a cockapoo. That's not to say Butterstick doesn't stay busy ... a dog, and making Simmons the second third undergrad dorm, alongside ... for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different ... will also talk about in a later post). right now, i just want to talk ... requirements. i did a [annotation note="everyone at MIT has to take two

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  for a long time: to make games that affect peoples' lives in the same ... of getting to them without a car was too high. I've found that the walkability of a city is, in fact, important to me. And although I do like

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020