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  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  know because I wrote them). The only way it could've possibly been worse ... with style. A lot of us tend to think about things in ways that are ... kind of way, no matter what my current record might suggest): firstly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  post will be a way for you to start processing all of those thoughts, a way to start moving forward from a Pi Day that might not have gone the way you wanted. My first graduate school application came back on my

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  a nice way to get outside, get some exercise, and get to places, but I ... thing, it's great exercise: I bike about 8 miles each way, which gives me ... apparently suicidal man reading my college applications? There's a smart way

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  about the problems, "but rather the friends we make along the way," and ... following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of the way before the spring semester" ] 18.01A [/annotation] became some

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  lots of decisions quickly and well is going to decrease. There's no way to prevent it, only ways to manage it better. It's hard to manage ... other words, to become cognitively exhausted, in the way that when I was a

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

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  water. And maybe you’d feel the same way. And then we could tell each ... same way. And then we could tell each other stories. But until then, I ... over the water. And maybe you’d feel the same way. And then we could

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... “oh it’s good at science” and “college is a really long way away”. I was ... note="of course, some of the ways that i’ve learned this are by being

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  overall experience much more enjoyable. Second, it is a good way to start ... are almost never the best way to pick. This is kind of similar to the ... “having a major, measurable impact on the world in some way,” because the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  sometimes worry I get way too excited to see underclassmen compared to how ... compass in a way I completely had not expected. Now, 4 years later, MIT has ... last EESA event of the semester. It's ironic, and in a way proves

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  way, you won't have to worry about throwing it together when the time ... in a new way? Do you have no prior experience, and want to try ... . I know someone who landed a summer internship at CERN this way. If you

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

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... the way so we can have something to present to our coaches the next day ... science really the field for me? I don't enjoy EECS the way these people do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  realized that I had not, in fact, figured it all out; in some ways I felt ... stars end their lives in such extreme ways, with antics like dramatically ... was hard in the right way and something that was hard in the wrong way

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  like this analogy, because I feel like it also mirrors the way ... good way--I didn’t often have to deal with discriminatory or questionable ... our community, as a whole, wishes to achieve. I think in many ways, we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  and State College have both become home, though in very different ways ... closed so we don’t wake the neighbors. The way my mom playing Bouree in E

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  have ten more years left of soccerrrrrrr.” The only way I would possibly ... , and I’m trying to find ways to deal with this sudden loss of purpose. If ... . Maybe there’s a way to be optimistic about all this. After all, there is a

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

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... felt way less stressed than I thought and the whole thing went off really ... extracurriculars. On my way to the first one, I realized I just couldn't do it. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  way of thinking assumes that there is a dichotomy between diversity and ... another way: while not all students admitted to MIT are equally well ... each other.   Put another way: we are not looking for the thousand

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  MIT. By the way, graduates of MIT's Architecture department designed ... the local area ECs and me. It was a good way for me to talk with our ... day (except for the plane crash). Unfortunately, there is no way we can

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  are not value judgments--they're not meant to tell you whether the way ... stopped myself because that feels, in a way, like the easy way out

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015