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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  ..." A solid minute of silence, broken only by more interjections of my own ... periods of focused reading broken up by intervals of noncognitive activities ... shortcomings with better process. I described above some of the ways that we take

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

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

  

  tolerate the ever-present pile of laundry by my bed. My famline. In a ... sorority actually meant, so it hadn’t crossed my mind until one of my soccer ... my sorority has ended up being one of the one of the best and most

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  me to have "a list of no more than 12 schools" ranked by difficulty to ... experience surrounded by a lot of people of my high school. Long story short ... or whatever. Those of us that applied to MIT by chance, got in by some

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  the steps of the traditional planning process—looking at past events ... 's like and to represent our dorm. By the end of February, we've submitted ... . By the end of the camp, we feel like we have succeeded; our director

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  of depression and extremely brief mentions of suicide and self ... the corners of my eyes. On the inside, nothing. Just emptiness. But ... into a lump of a person, sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  intertwined. I had grown increasingly out of touch with myself, enslaved by the ... They're not kidding when they say the Swiss are some of the most On-Top-Of-It people in the World.   During the exchange

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  them to make that a reality takes a lot of energy and thinking for me ... time and energy of a trainee and it is very important to put them in a ... chain: Bryan Bryson. My advisor in biological engineering and one of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  school had no resources or coaches and our team consisted of 8 members ... whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this letter may be of benefit to some current student, or some future student. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  kind of hard. It’s only been a few days, and it’s hard to process how I ... exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you ... results of that week. Tuesday: 2-1 win against Coast Guard Thursday: 1

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  crust.  The two things this semester that I put most of my energy towards ... their wings and putting in a copious amount of time and energy into ... this process. One of my favorite things about research is the community

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  beating it by 0.3% in efficiency. Of course, these numbers pale in ... of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT.nano where I immortalized one of those pictures as a solar cell! [caption id

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  through the process, complementing the series of presentations/talks that ... /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  myself, I’d be in jail” (from “Girl Named Hello” by of Montreal ... these things fall by the wayside when negotiating the insanity of MIT. I ... learning to take advantage of the resources available to students. I’m a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  goes on the scale of days, affected by the events in someone's life. the ... knowledge of bay area geography was made flimsier by the fact that we were on ... one. one of my coworkers, john, lives on a boat. last sunday, father

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  about the ETA of Rebecca's article. I mention the 8:30pm time agreed by ... sounds like there are a lot of people there! Maybe, I should stop by later ... pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  they involved lots of triangles made by pressure-treated lumber. I didn ... tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  grueling. Personally, I love this part of our process. I love imagining the ... human process. One of my favorite memories of our selection process is ... of committee and various checks and balances. At the end of the process

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  Student Luncheon happens every Reg Day. It’s organized by Laura Maxim of ... corners, no more than one of us per table. One by one, the returners trickle ... full of returning student resources; some even snag free Frisbees with

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  assigned to them by another member of Conner 2. I can't remember all of the ... 2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  you in your dorm room. Or, your dorm is in the process of being closed ... Even though we’re only two weeks into the start of the Spring semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020