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• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  'm in my third year here at MIT, and I've grown up a lot. One of ... extracurriculars at difficulty levels 95, 70, and 65 out of 100 difficulty points ... . I've spent at least 24 hours of my "off" time applying for summer

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  finally hit the 6 month mark at my job. Wow. Well here we are. 6 months of ... life that shock you into the reality of the situation, and you wake up at ... thoughts about it, but at the heart of the issue, I think it’s quite simple

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The word meaning "the closest approach of an orbiting ... floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but ... that a B at MIT wasn't the be-all-end-all of their med school ambitions ... pre-med students here offer a unique perspective on medicine: that of a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... time (you'd be surprised at how much mathematics was involved). Then, of ... out of battery. Naturally, I decide to be the hero, and offer to tape my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at ... will at least change the way you think of bikes. "In order to become ... interim comfort of "spring" gone all too quickly. I, however, love summer

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

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide ... at a whiteboard that proclaimed two hundred dollars’ worth of chips ... Pods. I wondered at this approximation of Maslow’s. Who needed self

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  stitching. I was part of a mass-layoff at work a couple weeks ago and have ... copious amounts of work. Some hobbies didn’t stick (trampoline dodgeball and skating are two notable ones) but some DID stick … and with an abundance of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  mind I must have gained in the past couple of weeks, cringed at some of my essays. To one of them asking why I wanted to be at Penn, I had ... realm of elation separate from mere joy at this achievement, I realized

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  recharge after a couple months of work, but at the end of the day I was still ... slightly embarrassing photo at the top of this post: all of the musical ... Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  offered, and explaining the hundreds of clubs and student activities, along ... Cambridge campus’ construction. At the turn of the century, a still ... Class,” due to the existence of at least half-a-dozen millionaires among

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with ... the incoming Class of 2013, I offer an introductory documentation of ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  's EVERYTHING. You literally passed through *at LEAST* 5 different rounds of ... much leaves a lot of that at the door (unless it comes up specifically ... , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Stata Center has three towers. Some of the windows look out at other walls of the Stata Center. Others look out at a desert under unfamiliar stars ... blink. There are ResLife workers at the edge of the mudpit. An RLAD shifts

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  was a spark, an extra degree of freedom, a young, harmonious vitality ... of the library to look at the Boston skyline in the distance. The roof ... belong. At the same time I’m miserable, sometimes. IHTFP is the middle of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  'll just lecture at you, and you'll just be another face in a sea of 200 ... Simmons) pay $300 at the beginning of a semester to help keep the dining ... students who qualify for the SAT waivers, which can be used at good number of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  different age. As a result, he would, at the end of either program, emerge a ... should leave my apartment and buy a gallon of milk at the store across the ... apartment) is a choice too, excluding an infinity of possibilities at the

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

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  at them at different times, and lots of different methods of framing ... Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex ... , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the

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

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  descriptively incorrect. At its most basic form, it's a variant of post hoc ergo ... considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that ... , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
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  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  felt like I was carrying a lot of stuff at once. It was so ironically in ... community, hard at work pursuing projects, bright and energetic. One of the ... . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017