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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  area and asked if I wanted to get dinner. Rejoicing that once again ... too much choice, so I set it aside until I could get to a point of ... application is (probably) not the place to get too experimental, or to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
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  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  your work will get done—there is enough help around campus to not stop ... great to send out warm fuzzy greetings, but i received one question ... was about work/life balance—is it stressful to balance everything at MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student ... like the ends of the earth when I was an undergrad before). I tend to get ... quite long or comfortable enough to bust out the laptop and get some work

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  the core principle is correct. When you get to college - or, for the class of 2011, when you get to the rest of your life - there will be so ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  easier to keep your momentum going than to try to get started partway ... .[annotation note= "And then some of them will leave again! To everyone heading to ... student IDs, looking around with their parents, hauling boxes up to their

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... struck with the feeling that I might never get the chance to, again. When ... no way I would ever want to do more school, and I was ready to get out

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  having known you. If you've had an interview, I get to read about how you ... a few who really got to me, and when they didn't get in, the tears ... In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned ... in the Media Lab like to have fun. And now the story gets exciting ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  , or visually with coins and blocks. You also get to have a lot of fun ... teacher side of things: I go to bed at 10:30 and get up at 6:30. I improvise ... don't get cellphone signal here? GPS doesn't know where it is, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  know you all are going to go here), then you should really get to know ... , but don't worry! We're here to help. And you may be wondering who WE ... ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  ;   Afeefah: 100% good health. I’ve been trying to get into a ... ’ve been able to get through rejection after rejection and pure uncertainty ... weaknesses. As freshmen get used to being in this environment, many (including

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
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  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to ... desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  idea how to get more specific.  My previous experience was all over the ... to understand what the value of my MIT education was- we'll get to that ... .  Slowly but surely I'll get to the marathon distance.    

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real ... . Instead, this post is to help you get to know the Enigmatic Admissions Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
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  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  if you're closed off. If you need to get a job, find something that ... half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it ... 't get caught. Life is too short to stick with a course of study that you

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so naturally, the MIT.nano staff want students to get excited about it too. To that end, undergraduates like me get to take classes where we ... dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... hardest to get MIT Decision Day 2010 to come faster, I couldn't. Heck, it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  . Inevitably, this means that my parents have tried to get involved in every facet of my career - trying to get me interviews with different labs ... to get us where we need to go, and I quickly learned at MIT, a few

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  encourage us all to volunteer - "Come on guys, we've got to get you more ... getting to that age where people from professors to the guy who mops my dorm ... 's looking like red, but it's still a little too early to tell. I'll get back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009