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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  way of weighing which one would be better for me. On one hand, I had the ... days, and one morning it became clear to me. As I was meditating early ... me that I should accept the job offer. After all, it was a great

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  count. The result has been really quite nice for me. I'm easily ... end up like me :P First come classes. I'm taking three and a half ... the Boston Marathon bombings. It's also forcing me to write, an

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  recoiling into the space behind me, he grinned and said, “I am the one who ... finally come to an end, and with it, my first year at MIT. For me, the end ... dawning on me with weight, the fact that my freshman year is over. And it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  manageable pieces.  Our first assignment is to build a "Mini Me" robot that can ... has the advantage of letting me avoid the bottleneck of waiting for ... quickly. Here's what that means for me: I'm able to design, fabricate, and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  Late in February, my friend Ashley '12 forwarded me a notice titled ... told me that I should meet Ashley at MIT's Kresge Auditorium. The theater ... !") but we squeezed and "sorry! excuse me!"d our way in. Flipping through

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  during first semester, and he got me a tryout! I had my first competition ... great, and they have helped me so much with improving over time. I went ... ! This really meant a lot to me, and I can’t wait to spend the next year on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  people asked me to elaborate about what non-meal-plan life is like. So here, by popular demand (okay, like 6 prefrosh contacted me.  My ... healthier) food, and save money.  A week's groceries costs me around $60, and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  , rather traditional family to judge me hardcore. This recent, good one ... /jpmoore/the-best-gifs-of-the-nfls-fourth-week b. Farting around with people who very strangely put up with me ... Nerf Guns or me doing very obnoxious things like blasting Fleetwood Mac

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  . Since it’s far behind me, I’m now going to share a big secret about my ... myself that I wanted MIT to take me apart and make me better. The past year ... ’ve reevaluated what I look for in friends and in myself. It took me an

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  to me, it's not about acting. Fundamentally, it's about being ... something. GEL has taught me that this can mean the difference between killing ... , and this was the perfect project for me to pass time between Track

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  been me. Please don't tell Barack). President Obama is the second ... me because I'd personally tramped all over these grounds for the past ... . "Come with me," she says, leading us around to the middle section. To a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  me about as redundant as the last 293-give-or-take-280 Redwall books ... delicious Thai seafood curry the next night, and everyone (namely, me) lived happily ever after. On the downside, the sight of stairs makes me foam at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  Hey Mr. McArthur (I am him!) Tell me where have you been (Hangin’ out with TIM!) They’ve been asking…. (Who’s been asking ‘bout me?) They ... him at a book fair in November and he told me that he was deeply

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  , I love the beach, so I figured this would make me happy. But the ... closet, and the 2 suitcases I had brought back with me from Spain shoved ... loft. This idea came to me in a flash of brilliance, as we were

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  camp means a lot to me (and that is an understatement if I've ever seen ... me and had stuff for me to do. Lo and behold, I had a summer job. So ... feeding me theory along the way, too. The ultimate goal of my UROP is to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  in MechE would provide me with a solid yet broad engineering background ... train me to think analytically about systems – both how to design them and ... , etc.), I thought this training would make me a great doctor, as well

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  piano chords rains down around me. Slow down, fast train. Take me with you ... she gave me my nickname, Spammy, within seconds of meeting me, and how ... seriously concerned for me, but then it turned out everything was okay and we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  't about being boy-crazy. First of all, this was me in high school. I think ... other kids caught me reading the dictionary, and everybody teased me ... , you'd find me backstage with some confused person, making drawings about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  statistics and making train, plane, and hostel reservations online--got me to ... sometimes. A lot of problem sets in junior-level classes made me not only ... -ideal gas law relations, but also made me take these answers and apply them to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  because I live in the boondocks and it annoys me to go back to campus after ... -- actually, I've always thought it helped me become the time management ninja I ... often get stuff started so it's ready for me when I come in. Third... I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006