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  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's our job to make lots of decisions quickly and well; it is our job, in ... make decisions, and thus to become fatigued by them, and we can't avoid ... refers to the observed phenomenon that making decisions depletes your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  Returning students

  Secondary school materials Some students apply to us after an ... experiences of students returning to higher education. At the same time, we need to evaluate students against a common baseline of preparation for a
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Early vs Regular

  fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there is no strategic benefit to applying in one vs the other. We have two ... period, devoting more time to each application, and 2) it provides
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  find our mailing address below. We'll get back to you much faster via ... -related documents to us for some reason—or if you would like to mail us something not related to an application—you can send it to: Massachusetts Institute of

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• MIT visits you

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• Discover / Life and culture

  Arts & music

  of contemporary art, is home to a state-of-the-art black box performing ... -level training to ensembles and classes that you can join even if you’re just a beginner.[/intro] MIT is full of opportunities to showcase your artistic
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  February Updates & Notes Form

  . Midyear grades Please be sure to get your official midyear grades from your college counselor to complete the February Updates & Notes Form accurately. Your counselor does not need to mail your midyear grades to us
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  Via tesseract

  learned to take short cuts wherever possible." "Sort of like in math?" Meg ... see," Mrs. Whatsit said, "if a very small insect were to move from the section of skirt in Mrs. Who's right hand to that in her left, it would be
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  Basic facts

  [intro]MIT's primary purposes are teaching and research with relevance to the practical world and transforming society for the better. To ... ) who will contribute to MIT and the world.[/intro] These basic facts are
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  [intro]Would you like to hear from us every once in a while?[/intro] Then you should sign up for our MIT Admissions monthly newsletter (prospective undergraduates only please). It's from us(!), and contains
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  Undergraduate research

  you a point of entry to begin work that can last a lifetime. Hands ...  credit. How to UROP You may apply for advertised UROP positions or propose your
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  tempting, trying to overload yourself by doing ALL of these things may not be ... you glance through this list, feel free to make a note of tools and ... : codecademy.com/ Description: Website that offers free lessons to help you

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  a website that revealed an entire page of coded words. We decoded the page, and it led us running to the Infinite Corridor where we found a map ... only by the right kind of light, we still weren’t able to finish the hunt

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  tend to stick around longer than anyone expects. Consider the ESP website ... whether to create the website in Perl or Python. There's a bit of discussion ... 't get close to guessing how long the website would last. Consider another

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  to be asked for your resume, so you might as well make one now. That ... : you have to make them, in a sense. If there’s a particular department or ... -mail was not going to be answered. I did a quick search online, found the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  ways to make websites; many students make their own personal websites ... it took to make these games come to life! a history WZ: Paolo was ... and actually make this all happen. To clarify, the name "dormspam

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  cat, I ran quickly to the office and seconds later, was tearing off DHL ... Penn. I checked out the university’s website and Wikipedia page. I found ... there was clearly no way I’d make it back to Nigeria in time. I spoke to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  took until November for us to start hanging out after class. By the time ... by everyone else too. Every day on campus I smile and wave to a dozen ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021