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  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  less marginally exhausting to read. One pragmatic reason why your college ... basically any college you apply to, or frankly any sufficiently any

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

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  for print, my first time (at least since college apps) working under a ... while to realize (in part because I’m not sure I knew what college was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  college diet of frozen foods that added extra pounds of jiggle to my hips ... friend at the time, a college grad who’d been through it all before, butted

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

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  and in short, they were my first family at college. We had an incredible ... was applying to college, the single most important thing was for me to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  . I now realize that I am probably going to go a lame local college and ... crushed by my first semester of college. I need to ask you, has anyone ever

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  fewer go on to college. School. Otherwise known as my second home. I ... , and therefore cannot go onto college. The exam covers math through

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

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  I normally won't is explore the bowels of College Confidential (if I had my way, College Confidential would be wiped off the face of the

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  during the pandemic and me going off to college that my parents has

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  stopped worrying about my agenda (and school) during my college application

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  college, adapt to anything. In fact, I was a bit horrified of my freshman

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  : College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh This post was tough to edit! Both

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Shooting for Top Gun: Aiming to Arm Students with Life Skills for College and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  when it came time to apply to college, MIT was naturally on the list, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  's all too easy for MIT to become a bubble: your entire college existence

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  between having an average college experience and an amazing one, and that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you ... of college and I just bought two cheeseburgers from a local gas station ... to only one college my senior year of high school. It was an art school

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  way related to differences in math ability, given that college ... only got X score,” and “I’m never going to college, I’m so stupid.” It ... of Stereotype Threat on the Standardized Test Performance of College

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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  hype, subscriber shoutouts—all ways to offer digital feedback. More than ... offer Lilly's story as consolation, which shows that a puzzle doesn't need

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

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  what a fair price was, so I offered $20 per card, and it seemed that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  sitting down to do the next physics pset. She offered to pset together, but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021