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  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  the sun rather than the shade. But then I wouldn’t be able to type as ... wasn’t right for me. In the 5 minutes since I started writing this post ... . But I didn’t expect that when it came time to write that blog, I would

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

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  make decisions, and thus to become fatigued by them, and we can't avoid it entirely. The second is that decision fatigue doesn't observe work ... suits,” he said. “I’m trying to pare down decisions. I don’t want to make

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

  finding place

  

  evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters ... . Here are some pics, looking back (omitting a lot because I don't want to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  morning and slept at midnight and yet I felt like I didn't do anything. Time ... we were forced out by the pandemic. This year wasn't real, because no ... probably won't be coming back as a senior. And after that, I'll be a senior

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  ? the fact that i don’t have enough desk space in my room and need to work ... home in new york?"]clear as day,[/annotation] part of me still doesn’t ... it’s foot down when I try to be kinder to myself. Why can’t you just

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  East Campus but realized it wasn’t you” nearly every other week.   ... state, and having the same damn last name isn’t enough—at a blogger ... barely overlap. In fact, our lives don’t overlap much; I’ve bumped into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... most: Ron said, "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode." "Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  honestly haven’t figured that out yet. While those things are all certainly true, it doesn’t represent all of life here - psets are hard, but they aren’t (always) all-consuming. So instead of ranting about line integrals

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  , Bulgaria, and the Maldives. Unfortunately, I won't be joining my co ... -profit company. I still haven't interned in a government job (a viable career ... been invaluable. And, of course, it doesn't hurt being in one of most

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on ... a rule I don't really pay attention to lists like that, except the ... is "Don't stress out too much about numbers; you're not going to go to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  more people I knew, but didn't realize? Could there be someone like Sal ... , and then Ben didn't remember who lived before he did. It was a pleasant ... the oldest floorpi graduate I knew, Charles T. '10. This lead to a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  )convenient the accommodations are, you will not be happy in a dorm that doesn't ... places at MIT and make new friends. Don’t stop at the first impression ... wouldn’t fit in as well as mine. The different dorm cultures make the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... factor controlling the admissions process. Suppose, for a moment, we didn't ... the students we admitted wouldn't feel as home here. Because what we try

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  conversation starter. I’m surprised that the song, "It sucks to be me," isn’t ... have a river view. I also can’t imagine a better a college town than ... year room in Next House (my Baker rooms have better views but I don't

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... john. "but don't look up. feel it against your cheeks, or your ears. look ... you can't." two. in my continued adventures with the american

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  , painted by Rachel B. ‘09. If you haven’t seen Star Trek, I think you should ... isn't fiction: this is Earthrise, a view of the Earth rising from the ... . ‘08, and two Tie Fighters, painted by Maggie D. ‘10. I haven’t seen Star

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  went back to work. Half an hour later, I checked my Facebook and couldn’t ... your body was so shocked you couldn’t move. It wasn’t thunder. I ... T. The atmosphere at the hospital was visibly different, and security

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  in this school. If this isn't "to consign someone to custody", then ... -year students don't realize this, but they are being used as the unit of ... knew how it would've ended, I wouldn't have joined in the first place

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  for all four years (they don't), or whether MIT students ever study ... to advocate for his alma mater, but he didn't. Instead, he told me that ... didn't know. They'd be different from me. It would probably be harder. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  loss for words. You might be incredulous at the fact that I hadn't been reflecting on these things during my last few weeks at MIT, but I wasn't ... storage, saying goodbye, watching movies with friends who I won't see for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013