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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about, I want to first introduce the structure of my internship: I'm part of ... . I looked at the team names and I felt nothing. No spark of excitement

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... decision fatigue for a few reasons. The first, and most obvious, is that it ... wear the same rotation of flannels and sweaters this time of year: to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  small subset of the whole—have no qualms about telling us exactly what is ... "self image", and notice that only ~31% of students think they're in the ... stronger sense of who you are and what you want to do. This is the thing

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  showing the blarghers as a whole. Tigers are closely followed by pigs, and ... I am her to the max. But he definitely sees a different side of me and ... . After the nap, it continued the race and was named the twelfth animal of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  a very mild electric shock. I first heard of the phrase pins and ... it, and only digging up enough energy to do a tenth of the first one ... day everyone moved out of hall. Three. Alan and I ate lunch the other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  acrylic paint and the bottom half is melted crayons. Grant F. ‘16 One of ... simple: melt down a block of bismuth, and pour out the liquid when it ... few hours the four of us went back upstairs and said goodbye to BMF and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  of the firehose and everything. (Of course, the water was actually from ... their blog, Shayna A. '23 gives a full account of the pain and outrage ... Twitter and read the rest of the replies. In response, I tweeted that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  and you'll see home:     Fun fact: all of the photos in ... Cambridge, and a whole lot more. So without further ado, 10 reasons why MIT ... ! (9) Because the Esplanade is only a short walk from campus: and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  of the 2015 roller coaster (which I rode, and which some of my ... the line is his writing!  My name is Zack and this year, I was one of ... ="one of the undergraduate dorms"]East Campus[/annotation] designs and builds

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  , and to become aware of problems which exist in the world which need ... . It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks ... communities, I often am asked something along the lines of the following

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the spirit (but without the inspiration) of Ben's big lists, and following up ... Globe's list of the top 50 "ideas, inventions and innovators that helped

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  sort of stick in your memory like the chorus of some Top 50 song, and ... than it should have, and it's taken on new shades of meaning over the ... labels you try and put on it, you will only come two-thirds of the way to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  for 3.5 years and from looking through the results of this survey - that ... best years of our lives and the foundations of the kinds of friendships ... for all of the stress and insecurity around me. I think I thought that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... observes, being "out" is not the only way to be LGTBQ+, and the costs of ... not have more of these stories told in the first person.)  To amplify

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , and ran to the cupboard. Flinging the doors open, I grabbed a bag of ... onto his desk. He tentatively scooped some out of the pile, and sat ... multiply or square. Because of that, they get the operations mixed up, and

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

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  rant about the administration and eat chocolate chips out of a bag as the ... made of snow and shadows and leans against the wall, melting his way in ... print it out. It is a diagram of the human nervous system in blue and red

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  the pleasure of preparing next year’s, and it’s been fun. i also joined ... series on scp, and binged a bunch of videos from brian jordan alvarez the ... narrower and narrower, until it came to the point that i’ve reduced most of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression ... took the class twice and dropped it twice. It wasn't just because it had difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the first event of the weekend, I went into the wings eating contest with a ... finished the first layer of wings on my plate. I gave up then... I do want to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  and at the frat. There’s been the prospect of my first technical job ... two-month period in fifth grade and the culmination of every wistful ... dexterity. There’s a ton of people in MIT who play the piano (and everything

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014