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  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  of it, spinning things that are on fire and trying to keep in them ... , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... lots of decisions quickly and well is going to decrease. There's no way

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  elucidate the lives of MIT students, and this subject has definitely been on ... major is more of a personal journey, and these blogs are supposed to apply ... all the rest of your education, you have suppressed your inner Simon

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  beginning of the catalog once, and then again later on, sorted by department ... we've seen of the Faculty Committee on Admissions, I believe, and they ... of the GIRs, or historical admissions videos. And it turns out there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  today it smelled like the boxes stacked on the furniture and the floor and stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week ... funnelators of doom and deathiness! Unleash your inner berserker! 16:00 - 16

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  across the world and fights against the stigma of menstruation and period ... own website and foundation, emphasize the narrative of homelessness by ... naturally attach these terms to the real and painful struggles of homelessness

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  like a whale lunge feeding']missed them,[/annotation] here’s an index of ... been by Cami M. '23 in search of lost time by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24 and ... bravely and maybe a little stupidly"]decided to share their journeys of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  the largest women and non-binary community on campus (making up ⅓ of all ... with mints and cough drops just for you. Focus on the values of each ... , and I hope everyone has a fun last month of summer before we’re back on

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  moment, of going to the Institute, and of caring for others. On a day ... piles of dirty laundry, p-sets, paper, scarves, and pencils. The drawers ... . Something was wrong. The next day Lauren messaged me and asked me to go on a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  two of the classes that I originally submitted are still on the list. I ... .72 Vision in Art and Neuroscience. The last one is sort of the reason why I ... Feedback Systems 2.184/9.34: Biomechanics and Neural Control of Movement

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  using lightboard videos. 8.01 and 8.02 are shown on the pillars of the ... Management and Design, @pianofinqers on Instagram. The overall layout of the ... Devil represents material wealth, addiction, and ignorance. Do any of us

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

      Early morning on December 5th, 2012, my family and I ... application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I ... getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
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  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  to go and try out any of these services. Even just poking around the ... Anxiety. It's a term with a variety of definitions, causes, and ... about it among my peers and self on the Internet and in real life. I study

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even ... classrooms, and work on some sustainable projects of my own. One afternoon ... life out here has comprised of coexisting as teacher and student. On the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... exchange of ideas and excitement about Ethiopian-Eritrean culture on MIT ... Ethiopian-Eritrean Students Association, and a founding member of my sorority

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  was collapse on my couch and burrow under two blankets. I had a lot of ... do any of it. Instead, my mom came and sat next to me, and we did New ... kind of situation (aka any kind of situation) is to make lots of plans

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  the effects of this virus inching closer and closer to my life back home ... of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and from the class notes open on the other half of the screen. Nothing sticks

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  , bribes, and persuasion, I traveled from my bed (on the third of Burton ... thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your ... , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  sacrificing your ride home, and especially if they don't fix the fan belt on ... HELL"—the IHTFP-esque MIT motto of the 1930s—and hauled ... was later lowered and set on fire (I think) on the grass between the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  has a giant banner in the lobby with a collection of trophies on a table ... -quarantine fatigue, to the massive number of teachers who left between 2020 and 2022 ... worse" vibes, there was unmistakably a tone of exhaustion and anxiety in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  when I was at MIT (on the crew) and on top of that I had a job, did ... is true in all of our activities, and equally true on our sports teams ... , meeting and talking with a lot of students and guidance counselors about MIT

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006