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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  . Sometimes, knowing your limits is the only way you can expand them, like ... , and I can feel that cognitive debt accumulating. My hope is that a few ... . Decision fatigue is a term from the behavioral psychology literature. It

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

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where ... , always cut it out. (iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active ... lying at you, and no - there is no conspiracy either). Therefore, you will

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  reevaluating yourself on a wide lens you didn’t know you could look through. this ... , you land that job, your project works and your research is published and you change your mind about yourself, again. success here is so hard to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  know you can identify what you like or don't like about a video but can ... of reminded me of being a stage manager, where your role is pretty much ... that you can’t quite grasp without being on a film (online video?) set

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  have a great attitude and there is a lot you can accomplish. In many ways ... school is just a place; it's what you choose to do that matters, not where ... believe that wherever you find yourself in the fall is a place you can make

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

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  resume? B: So I can get a well-paying job when I graduate. A: Why do you need a well-paying job when you graduate? B: So I can live well. A: Why ... topic is interesting to me. A: Why does that make you want the UROP? B

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and ... 3 AM in a cold sweat that things have to change. This is an attempt at ... under a rock, things you’re too naive about, things that perplex you. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Fi. If you’re there now, enjoy it any way you can, devour it. Let it be the ... Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects ... back home to Georgia, a short trip to Iceland (don’t ask), and a cross-country

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  exam, there is a very real possibility of getting 0% if you don't know ... finish at the end. There is a culture of academic masochism at MIT, where ... figure out what works for you. There is no shame in dropping a class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  is sometimes only visible in the limits of your imagination. Can you ... . Is the mechanical engineer you think of an African woman? Can you ... demographic present at MIT and a field of study that we offer is a person we can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Court... (4) ...or take a walk by the boathouse: (5) I'd show you ... ! (9) Because the Esplanade is only a short walk from campus: and ... 'm currently doing a 30-day photo challenge where I take at least one good photo

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of ... you can too. Many more will be able to in just a short while. And before ... First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you ... —after spiraling into a drug addiction and isolating himself, Taron Egerton as Elton ... note="thank you novavax"]part of a vaccine trial[/annotation]. This was

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ! You know, things like that. Change is a good thing. As a freshman, I ... 's what you do with the opportunity that really matters. There are a very ... you did, twenty three years ago!) Two, because I hung out with a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  hour, or (more usefully) a block per minute. From this, you can quickly ... layout is that the streets are 60ft wide (about a dozen running crosstown ... a mix cd, mp3 folder, whatever - just make sure you keep copies of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  disconnected from all the people there. I mean, how do you even start a ... show others coming after you that there is hope. The "showy" queerness can be important to building a community that is truly welcoming. The

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  There is much hullabaloo around campus here lately as everyone is ... such temptation. The thing is, as you might infer from the awards and excitement, Prof. Grimson is a wonderful guy. He's incredibly fair and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  spring protections. A spring protection is made where there’s a source of running water (such as a river or spring). You can clean up the site (often ... is a village in Kaffa, SNNPR, Ethiopia. I went there several times

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  's what you need to understand: There is nothing, literally nothing, that ... , extracurriculars. There is no golden ticket. So breathe. Now that you are Zen calm ... may take many forms. What is it that you look for in an applicant?, some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  challenge is basically a quiz on how fast you can come up with good solutions ... getting a job is not fun, and can cause you to get pretty behind on ... about 20 [annotation note="you can apply to multiple positions in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019