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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  great group of friends. I thought about these two opportunities for a few ... decision invaded my mind. The rational side of my mind was trying to convince ... doubt. My heart felt like I needed to go on the bike trip. It was a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  at least some degree. Just recently, a friend of mine was having a ... satisfied enough to embark on the eight-hour grind. I realized the error in my ... in a more open way. Sound good? I’ll start. I remember starting my

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  writing this at a cafe in Brookline that my friend and I walked to in the ... and my friends and I haven’t made plans, we can always find events to go ... they only spoke French. So I asked my French-speaking friend to call them

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  what I learned by asking for my friends' help, people like Aidan, Aiden ... found my little niches in the realms of the vlogging world, enjoying the ... Knight, and more. And then this phase died as I entered my Tumblr stage

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  user-friendly) and my results were the following: Openness- high (95 ... conditions!   The point of all this Back to my friends, some people ... This post began with my long-standing hatred of Myers-Briggs tests

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  listed on my calendar--meeting up with friends, psetting, studying, cooking ... a firehose. Here's a quick look at my calendar and a recap of the ... since the end of first semester. After my last final, 18.02/Multivariable

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  , but John Curtice recognized me nonetheless and kindly complimented my blog. I believe my graceful response was, “Thanks, that means a - hey, is ... selection of friends at some random time in the middle of the night and ask

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  ’re not even big things, just little chores here and there. Like taking my clothes out of the wash, sending emails, cleaning up my room for CPW ... sitting so I can feel like I didn’t just waste my entire day.   Some

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  ; The other day, I wandered out of my friend Alison’s room. I was ... I encountered the Next House moving carts on my first day at MIT. I ... ="Freshman Shorna was punching the air"]obtaining my key,[/annotation] I grabbed one

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  addition to juggling all my other friend groups. given that i gained so much ... with my dorm being offline due to renovation: find another dorm on campus ... . cooking for myself, on the other hand, is easy, fun, and just better for my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  and my friends to not say anything about it if I don't get in? That ... although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed ... share my personal system for dealing with nerves; I do acknowledge that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  of time with my good friend Sarah, visit cool places in NJ, and go to ... , one of my good friends from high school, is visiting this weekend. I ... . After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  my bike, recruited a friend, and returned a few hours later. The street ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] @wildrabbitmotoshow[/caption] Finally my friend and I came ... my shirt. “That album got me through a breakup,” said the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  a college campus (and at my alma mater no less) exposes me to random ... phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card ... ) made me relive the times i grinded through those tedious psets with my

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  friends and family, perhaps visiting your favorite childhood haunts in a ... that’s accepted by both your friends and your folks (no matter how ... , family or friends suggest that you be one thing, yet you’d really prefer to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  walk in anytime and find some friends to sit down with, and I feel like I ... 're tooling problem sets with your friend at Baker, you don't have to walk all ... 've eaten house dinners at four different FSILGs (see my entry where I ate at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  me how I'm doing spending three months away from all my friends and ... unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets ... experience, to say the least - while my lab is an international lab run by an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  schedules fall into utter disarray at MIT. While some of my friends never ... sustenance is not recommended. my friend's doctor told them to not eat more ... Gregor, which a great place to live! Thank you to my friends Winnie '24 and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  of my friends (including Becky ’12, another former student of medieval ... problem. There was some quantity I wanted to maximize (say, my happiness, or ... solved for, I could plan my future by laying these decisions out in front

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  , more about the hubcaps. My freshman year, my friend from Caltech was ... art in my dorm, East Campus. According to the MIT Mind and Hand Book ... about my own dorm - and as you might have guessed from the title, I want

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018