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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  'd actually be a paragraph in a giant book about the Taj Mahal. I had to take a ... and a previous call to the airline), and she eventually caved in ... of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  from top to bottom. His body had become a canvas in which he could ... snap on your way to a party, ending in a hug when heading home, ending in ... together in a world trying to pull us apart. Hold these things close to you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  't know how to run a company, but he also really lucked out in that it seems ... , to that weird, weird group of people. After finding out that my name ... saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  , it was like 12 AM, and I was going to get a B in the class no matter ... this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster ... go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• 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 ... some reading or a [annotation note="I used to watch football, but there

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• 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 / Featured Blogs

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

  

  staffers, they've used the phrase "every shopper is a funder" to describe how ... , 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

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

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... it because I want to learn as much as I can in a limited period of time ... does, that in high school I used to say that this was just what I wanted

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  for those who were just curious as to what a decent college application ... process, which is really what the essay is supposed to do in the first place ... , that you’re applying to M.I.T. and yet you can’t fill out a form…” I don

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  of Ubuntu in less than a minute because of MIT: You will never see ... .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... and making cool friends through cool friends at MIT. To give you a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  crew and is a job title used in filmmaking and television for a person ... 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

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

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  guys who were in this were expected to make a small java software which would to track Planetary orbits and pinpoint a planet's location in sky ... if I was selected to MIT, or else if I had gone for a degree in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• 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
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like, four or five hours in a row. And everything feels interesting, and good ... when I’m asleep. So if we graph my ability to do work in a given day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a ... .01 met in a large conference room next to the [annotation note="It's a ... people. I felt like a failure! In my mind I had sunk to the lowest point

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• 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

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  ’re walking in. I spent a few evenings last summer and this winter so far ... on the right. Zooming in reveals a snowman and a snow dalek in front of ... the Charles River was through a downpour, when I was temped in Mac

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  work-around using an arduino, but this was passed over in favor of a pi ... to be in a startup, like a new burgeoning start-up that’s trying to get ... dream. I felt this way a few times in EC when certain periods came to a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Events

  halloween down the infinite

  

  still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  computer, and an external monitor oriented in portrait mode to my right. A ... save them to the system, and move on to the next case. In addition to a ... one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014