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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  landscaper in high school it was my job to become physically exhausted. There ... 't realize the degree until that conversation on Saturday night. In my post on ... internally inconsistent or erratic, at least for highly selective schools, is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  like everyone is struggling to some degree, so you feel like if you aren ... (shocker!). In high school, I really liked learning about cool math things ... high school. And I was never the best at it in my school either. My

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Center for Bits and Atoms. In June, Spencer graduated with a degree in ... , students from schools deemed lower quality are given a number a points, a handicap, in order to compete with students with access to better schools

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  School! The very first session I went to was "How to tell someone ... .... Master's Degree in Charm! To answer your question- yeah. I do feel pretty ... School "graduates" by playing "Pomp and Circumstance" on the kazoo

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most ... course, this process is a little smoother—return offers from post ... school for architecture or engineering, or maybe even writing, or a job at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it ... people when the school year started. Of course as soon as the school year ... speakers), although one person did offer to keep up an email correspondence

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  learned where both of my parents went to college, what their degrees were ... High School's SAT code by heart I learned that you can type as much as ... directions—it wasn't easy. I remember coming to school that Thursday. No

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Study Abroad Fair Learn about opportunities to study in another country (8 pictures)

  

  Study Abroad programs from England to Australia offer students. Add to ... ever-important ventures into all the diversity the world has to offer

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  would never want to relive high school again, but i wish i'd just...i don ... own business more. nothing wrong with that. protecting your peace, if

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  mathematics, which I’d attended in high school. I was accepted into well ... in the class (first place went to my math rival). If they were busy

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  during a busy week, I don't end up hanging out with much of anyone except ... school night. I signed up for a LARP just because I'd never tried one and I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  school? and the dreaded what are you doing in sf? or if it's that kind of ... me their business card. instead, they asked me to type my number on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  time my life had a rhythm at all similar to this, I was in high school ... unfinished business. And if that isn't a good description for what the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  way to the Western Avenue Bridge, which is near the Harvard Business School. it was totally worth it since the clouds dissolved after a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  well! I've just been ridiculously busy (that's shouldn't be an excuse tho ... school to the argumentative essay I just finished writing about the role of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  and bed? Wish I’d started a business or something. --- Networking is crucial. Maybe not so much if you’re set on graduate school, but connection

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  One of the greatest parts of college is independence. One of the hardest parts of college is independence. High school is very structured ... ’re busy whipping up some Management Science Soup, but the student next to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  that school has resumed. After landing in the Keflavík airport at 4 AM ... . After a busy third day, we enjoyed a relatively relaxed Day 4--we visited

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  it's Thanksgiving break. Next week will be absurdly busy, and I am not ... school visited me. I boarded a plane to New York, spent a day interviewing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  short class on pretty much anything to over 2000 high school students who ... ’t make myself clear, or maybe he was too busy drawing Cueball on my book to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014