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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on ... Obama address is AWESOME! Let's see, the guy in front of me helped design ... important this guy is, he's in charge of our country. Country, as in all the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  quote an old Baptist book of wisdom that the best rest is not idleness as ... , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... . Decision fatigue is a term from the behavioral psychology literature. It

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

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  . Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best ... is the same. Now, let's say you have 50 of these cubes in a model, and ... ingredients are the associated acids The flexible part of these formulas is you

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics ... almost all of us, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. it's not often that ... these little things seem to matter so much that they confuse you in the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  experience what it is, not where you are. Take advantage of the opportunities ... - "'The whole is greater than the sum of it's parts'. You're not just the ... person, which is much better complex than a simple sum of achievements. Don

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  them, but that's not the point. Well, actually, it kind of is the point ... God that the snow at the bottom of the hill is soft (it wasn't. The real ... that yesterday I permanently restructured the shape of my skull when the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  they can show "leadership skills" is by being the president of something ... something is the right thing to do, and this is one of them. And if you make ... software, like Big Ball of Mud, Worse is Better, or The Cathedral and the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  that much?? This year, a friend and I took advantage of the deal and went ... , this deal is too good to pass up. Research. I mentioned one of the ... ![/caption]   So. Many. Students. One of the cool things about Boston is the high

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  (which is pretty much the purpose of the event: to "build community ... hosed now. My classes are all different, of course, and so much else is ... class is 24.903, aka Semantics, aka how we know the meanings of sentences

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  ="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel[/annotation]of ... ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the ... the names and emails of EC's Medlinks (students who are trained to

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

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you ... bid to the D3 NCAA tournament, which is the national tournament. We ... were unfortunately knocked out in the Round of 32. We won our first game

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  parts of CPW is the massive amounts of delicious free food, but eating at ... ;       about the ridiculous number of awesome events ... ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the ... is unsustainable. Choose only your favorite clubs of the ones you join ... context of MIT outside the bubble is very grounding. Learn the shuttles

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  will of the Greek gods and there was nothing much else of concern. Some ... cortex, which is implicated in the processing of not “trying harder” but ... , which is one of the strongest correlates with general intelligence… and as

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  [/caption]   Nearing the end of my second year, I have a much stronger sense of place at ... . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  pumpkin in my life, which is part of why the pumpkins that emerge at French ... Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... excess of yummy food is consumed. Reason 4 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  more of it. Related is the feeling of hugging someone you haven't hugged ... feeling to the rest of the nervous system. When whatever blockage is removed ... . This is exhaustion. There's the feeling of stillness. Not the peaceful

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  the past 4 days studying as much as I could, yet by the time I tallied up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just (maybe)barely totaled 56/120. This is 6.046, Design and Analysis of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT amongst the autobiographical brainbarf in which the monsters are classes and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the ... For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008