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  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  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 ... ?" That's when I knew that decision fatigue had set in early this year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I wrote A Major Crisis, a blogpost in which I discussed my major prospects and my budding interest in pursuing computer science despite not having

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... now—it's easy to forget that this kind of thing isn't really normal in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
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  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  Most of the readers of this blog post are, in all likelihood ... disclaimer here to say that I'll mostly be talking about internships in the ... internships in April, before my internship for 2019 had even started. [caption

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair, this entire quarantine has been a blur, and i remember almost nothing in ... if my body is being pulled apart in different directions. yet at the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  this is by dressing up! My living community, 3E in Next House, decided to ... , I was actually able to look around at the people in the room. What I ... from the stage. In total, I believe 4 rings were raffled off. The raffle

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
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  ten reflections on mit

  

  ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These ... time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... blogging isn’t my “job” anymore), even harder. Many things in my life are

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  Comic book history Cultural legitimacy In practice Experience logistics In the flesh Holding candles Creative goods Feedback loops ... permanence For transience The gift of puzzles Sandbagging Free as in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  -profit PERIOD when she was 16. PERIOD has over 800 campus chapters in the US and ... describing the period in which her family rented their home as income while ... own website and foundation, emphasize the narrative of homelessness by

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  fraternity is Alpha Phi Alpha, founded in 1906 at Cornell University. In the ... MIT sororities since most are majority white and Asian. In the middle is ... at her church who were. She started to learn more about D9s in middle

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams for a reason, and each team carries its own traditions, culture, and in-jokes. One thing I love about the past two Hunts were the registration websites

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  MIT homepage, in three or four different blog entries, all over the news ... , pressure washing everything in sight, replacing windows, emptying stores of ... , undergraduates, and graduate students had to share 200 tickets. In the end, 50 of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  . According to MIT, about 73 percent of undergraduates live in a dorm on campus, and about another 24 percent of students live in [annotation note ... elsewhere in non-MIT affiliated housing. There's a lot of pros and cons to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  descriptions. MIT has published a new catalog every year since classes started in ... insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I ... long Professor Artin has been teaching algebra in MIT. It turns out he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... write. It's been a while since I've done that, in part because I've been ... , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to ... which one it is. The example scenarios in the problems grow increasingly ... sun starts rising and stops again. There is a sketchy f---er in the EC

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
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  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
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  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... in hats and my cousins and my brother and my sisters and my best friend

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016