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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  other words, to become cognitively exhausted, in the way that when I was a ... because it's initially hard to detect, because, in a corollary of the ... a request, I guess, to please be kind to the admissions officers in

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

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  have to be creative. There are a lot of ways to show your creativity in ... , outstanding intellectual aptitude, a desire to use your knowledge in the world ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  does know how to weld in real life--a skill she learned as part of D-Lab, a group of courses that aims to teach how to perform engineering in ... Williams? This was a question that we set out to answer, in a way, through

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... like wings, I do not like spicy. A one-pound plate of wings was placed in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... be living in such a beautiful place, and I tried to appreciate it while ... tables and desks in the lobby of the Nano building were a great place to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  chocolate chips, in addition to a ton of baking powder, baking soda, salt ... , in this case, a person) takes to process a given input (such as ... little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural ... considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that ... exercise just because we slapped a number in it. Trying to convert inherently

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  , like it has of mine. And it is wonderful to have a nutritional oasis in ... I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  [/annotation] was a sarcastic message to a Harvard student in the chat. In response to ... seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats ... , share resources, ask questions (and post memes) in a forum, and keep track

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  providing a space dedicated to women’s needs, especially in the context of the ... In 1870, [annotation note='This was a “special case”, one ... .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  to a video of students who celebrated the capture in the streets of ... violence tend to follow in a vicious cycle that is so so hard to break ... was lit in tribute to MIT police officer Sean A. Collier on the night of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... forward or backward at a particular moment. But that tends not to happen in ... wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  here do not deserve recognition but rather that in choosing to display only these individuals in a corridor dedicated to all of SHASS ignores ... , infused with careful critical thinking—a tribute to SHASS in style as well

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... self-confidence in my ability to get into such a well-known and ... computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  arriving to MIT would look like as a first year: Go to check in, and go where ...  worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a ... city I was moving to.[/annotation] I was scared. -- At one point in The

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  students with people living with disabilities to solve a problem in the home ... ) and also amazing. I teared up a little when I got to see him in the ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE ... course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 Videos Program. That last one might sound a little familiar to the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  partners in crime, my enemies, my friends. I had a wild imagination as a kid ... writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video ... schedule have yielded a reasonable amount of free time for me to explore some

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... ’t figured out that the best thing to do in a strange new place was to ask for ... food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  classes, and thanks to AP credits I could graduate in two and a half years ... strive to be a better, more interesting person in other ways. Another ... problems if you decide to work in a lab. Maybe the most important thing you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012