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  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 ... off several local options. I paused for a beat, then a few more. "Uhh..." A solid minute of silence, broken only by more interjections of my own

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

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  units of my floormates but I remember a few. A Tang measured orthogonality to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at ... the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house ... friendly conversation amongst each other, I preemptively take out a headphone

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
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  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and ... it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because ... —you’d probably realize that we’re related. More than a few people have approached

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... Frank video about dealing with rejection. He has a very soothing voice and always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  Engineering) have a discussion with our chancellor Eric Grimson, I packed up my ... 't know, and no one else seemed to know, either. He had a random press ... recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of lots of other people! For me, this sounds like: My Worst Nightmare! A ... before the start of the solo, he would give me a smile and a nod. I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on-campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January ... !"]CPW[/annotation]committee. As a frosh,[annotation note="this was not strictly true, but I did want

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... the end of a semester, condensed into a single week. So, how exactly do ... even physically impossible. Think: getting a really bad case of mono

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
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  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space ... these two statements. I will never be a junior again. I will never be a ... spill from my fingertips: dropping a class for the first time, changing my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  the upcoming new year, a time when I'm even more reflective than usual ... ="Which I got!! More on this later, I'm sure :)"]applied for a UROP ... eighth day, my self-reflection woke up. Since then, I've been thinking a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  from fellow alums who have felt similar things. It's a reminder that MIT truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and ... graduation). --------- A couple weeks ago, my friend pointed out that I had

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . Sometimes on mahogany walls. It’s not diverse, but still a bit impressive. And just look at the two campus maps. MIT is a school of numbers ... discussion section, led by TFs (Teaching Fellows). A Departmental Writing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  I’m spending this IAP doing, among other things, five shifts a week as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a ... this as we all miss Ben while he's off working at a different school ... : Mikey received an email from a student who had been admitted to MIT and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... applied to college 2 years ago (2 years! I'm old :( ), I wrote over a dozen ... colleges - not such a good idea. it's tiring, it costs a ridiculous sum of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

         “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what does it say now?” asked Arthur. “Mostly harmless,” admitted Ford with a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
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  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an ... .101 Metakaryotic Biology and Epidemiology, 21A.508 Culture and Ethics in Science

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019