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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 ... be careful where I spend my spoons. The backlog can wait. That's why it ... Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex

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

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was ... people in my class. In other words, I was a perfectly pitiable caricature of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in

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

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

  

  's nice to get a break in the middle of the school day where I can truly ... check my guests in. I can stay for the summer without applying again. I ... whole "survival" thing in the bag. But, I understand it can be daunting to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  question. "can you?" i asked. "the short answer," john replied, "is that you can't." two. in my continued adventures with the american ... 't schedule appointments with me while i was in california. something about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  classes where I can’t actually apply the material or don’t feel motivated ... , outreach, and production. We also have a blog, where I'll be writing about my ... 't quite emulate that in your own projects. But you can't keep improving

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

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

  

  back in Wisconsin. When I was little I took weekend classes where we ... connections. Also, I can keep fish tanks in my dorm room, which is a major plus ... here? When people from my high school asked where I was going to college

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

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  beautiful summer day in Boston[/caption] I stayed in Boston last summer. For ... . In the end, it was an imperfect fit but a fantastic summer. I'm so glad I took the risk. I was in search of a summer rich in feelings

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  classes as I can to see where the limits of my workload lie. I'm taking hard ... interested in writing, mathematics, and computer science. It turns out I can ... able to participate in a few things where I've been able to support

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  where I thought my life would go, I wasn't even close. I would've guessed ... country, build robots, or do work in five countries. I also had no idea that ... ’ve described the lessons that I learned in the order I learned them, but there

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I ... day soaking in the endless activities freshmen could partake in. I ate ... .m., I retired to the basement of Walker Memorial, where a bunch of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ... : I read something online that said, “There are 30,000 days in your life ... molecules. Reformulate the equation. In short, I want you to hack the world

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• 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 ... street — can have the largest impact, should I be hit by a bus, or meet the ... , where it is self-evidently life-altering even as we contemplate it. In

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  interested in the topic area of my work Feeling like I can do good through ... in my cohort. But do I think that I can do it, and moreover, enjoy it ... ’ll succeed in each of them? Probably. And I can’t know more than that in these

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  I glide out on the ice in the 10-degree Vermont winter morning. I can ... -Mobile, I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was ... . The little green cabin in the middle of the forest is where I recharge

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

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot ... I wanted some time where I wasn’t tied down in one place. So I packed ... cafe where I could get a cafe con leche (read: cappuccino, in the little

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  China, I was four years old. We arrived in Shanghai and went straight to ... speaking Shanghainese, and now I remember that moment in English, which is kinda funny. When I was little, my mother would often say, in the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering ... 's see if we can involve stairs in this bad idea somehow. 15:17 - 16

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  Here's a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• 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

  

  , driving and biking in the city can suck and be dangerous. Though it seems ... professors when you’re struggling. At the very least they can point you in the ... something I brought up in class made him happy. It was nice and existence

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

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  I remember exactly where I was when the email got sent out. There was this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020