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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 ... right was grilled chicken tenderloins. My goal was to decide which I would ... capitalism would treat the symptoms without curing the underlying disease, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• 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 ... wanted parts of both options and all of neither. In the end, I went to talk ... school, I knew what I would get: four more years of living near home, with

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

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  't schedule appointments with me while i was in california. something about ... life story in smooth beats. it felt like i was saying what he wanted to ... some friends in sf, and i couldn't bring myself to enjoy the company. or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... students were black, I was often the only black kid in my class, given that I ... person in general. I wouldn’t trade my experience at MIT for anything and I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  fateful day in September, so long ago. So, no, I have not forgotten about my ... blogs I promised in here will still get written, but I need to finish my ... half - I have never taken just four classes in one semester at MIT. I did

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any ... ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , they developed some digital media literacy – what I would argue is the ... helping out with and would have LOVED to take if I was unfamiliar with ... 'm not sure they know I have these pictures but I was in the group text

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

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  ? I also don’t quite know what the future would be like for me in this ... ? Would I be happy working in finance? Right now, I think I have a decent ... . But in finance, I wouldn’t be able to work on any of that. While I would

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

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... acceptance letters anyway). I didn't believe in the "one size fit all" approach ... often, I notice students get caught in a rut when they're writing the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  cook about 3 times in one semester) Mushroom Risotto! (serves two) 1 ... really good). 6. Add in the mushrooms once the aroma from the onion and ... that you've been cooking in beef stock and mix it in with the mushrooms

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  overview of the plan will suffice: our journey would start in Mattapan ... note="CJ: I’m gonna write things in 24-hour time for this post. Alan is ... are also in 24-hour time, I’m just writing this way in opposition to CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -campus from this point on, i'll mostly be referring to living in not mit ... entire life". It's been hugely instrumental in making me feel like I'm not ... ... everything. Although I do live with 6 people in what is essentially a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  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 ... did feel joyful. I could have been in a lot of different places when the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  had this 21W phase in which I would become an esteemed science ... notion that I would study computer science. Maybe I would even double major, if I was successful enough at the former. I would get a UROP at the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  planning the longest in the process. But, over the next few weeks, I would ... ’s rough buddy’ and what bender I would be, I caved. I started watching the ... childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  I get it. There have been posts about Splash before. There have, in ... experienced Splash this year. For reasons I’ll talk about later in this post ... ="aligncenter" width="600"] a duck i found in the esp office[/caption] Part 1: Hi, are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... ’m an international student from the Philippines, or that I live in East ... take the T to Malden Center, and buy lunch at this Chinese place I know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  health in the process. The ultimate goal was MIT, I decided sometime in ... are some (free) things on the Internet I enjoy now or enjoyed in high ... . This one's a western, set in 2517 on a spaceship. Hopefully I’ll also be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... sitting away on my old computer, but I started uploading a few on YouTube in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015