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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in ... Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex ... right was grilled chicken tenderloins. My goal was to decide which I would

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  them as well as we can in the moment. He asked me what I would tell an ... wanted parts of both options and all of neither. In the end, I went to talk ... school, I knew what I would get: four more years of living near home, with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... students were black, I was often the only black kid in my class, given that I ... person in general. I wouldn’t trade my experience at MIT for anything and I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  they thought they would major in something, but then realized that ... would be [what major? undecided?]. 2. I will be graduating as [what major ... thought they would major in their major, and diagonal lines represent people

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  and I said "MIT," I got a lot of blank looks. My school was in a small ... inspired them to visit me more than they would have if I went to UW ... back in Wisconsin. When I was little I took weekend classes where we

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  assumed I would be hitting it with a hammer later in the process. However, I ... I could get a measure of how much mass was in each part of the sword ... is still around 1”. All in all, I’m quite pleased with how the sword

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• 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 ... acceptance letters anyway). I didn't believe in the "one size fit all" approach ... thousands of application essays in one application cycle, so how is your essay

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

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  , they developed some digital media literacy – what I would argue is the ... helping out with and would have LOVED to take if I was unfamiliar with ... , how I ended up talking to Elizabeth about helping out with some other

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  in this blog post, and I realized that unfortunately, no matter how ... sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any ... ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... terrorist," they said in my mind the last time I was on an airplane. "She's hiding the goods in her breakfast burrito." The last time I was on an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• 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

  

  person-who-is-successful-in-a-direction-you-would-like-to-be. Endear ... something I brought up in class made him happy. It was nice and existence ... I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know

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

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  ways I can get there, how long each would take, and when I would need to ... -campus from this point on, i'll mostly be referring to living in not mit ... lease. The Good vs The Bad How do you know if living off-campus would be

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  had this 21W phase in which I would become an esteemed science ... the language). I’m getting interested in studying how social ... notion that I would study computer science. Maybe I would even double major

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , I was back in the classroom coteaching my next class, How to Read a ... I get it. There have been posts about Splash before. There have, in ... ’ll begin with a disclaimer. The experience I talk about here is how I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  few months since I started blogging. I thought I'd record how it ... I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... ’m an international student from the Philippines, or that I live in East

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

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ’s beginning to set. I hate how early the sun sets in winter. We were now waiting ... overview of the plan will suffice: our journey would start in Mattapan ... note="CJ: I’m gonna write things in 24-hour time for this post. Alan is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... sitting away on my old computer, but I started uploading a few on YouTube in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  anyone else to. Sometimes it is helpful to stop and think, “How would I ... friend told me they were being treated in x way, I would tell them to get ... would highly recommend reading it! 9. How it feels to teach a class I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I ... plane flight home, I was thinking about advice that I would have given ... person you would fall in love with. 25) Work on friendships as much as you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015