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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  Francisco. Along the eighty-hour journey, I took some notes about what I was ... . Here are the notes from the first day. Hour -1: 12:04 PM EST, January ... , some twenty-two hours later. From there, the California Zephyr will take

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  Francisco. If you haven't yet, you should start by reading part one. Hour ... around 8:30 AM, after eight hours or so of sleep, feeling well-rested and ... unconscious for most of the past hours. An hour and a half to Chicago—time to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  , and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... my bike, recruited a friend, and returned a few hours later. The street ... motorcycle, my legs exposed, everything seemed to move so fast. I was, for a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  I was supposed to wake up...24 hours ago] ... . Things really do move fast at MIT. It's like the Reuse mailing list, which ... . It's all free, too. But the thing is, you have to move fast. Running

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  a total of 18 open lab hours a week that you can go to if you need any help, in addition to regular traditional office hours that are meant for ... in these lab hours, since there’s always someone right there to answer

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  for over 24 hours. Her nap afterwards did the same thing as Maddie ... cruel exception. Most classes at MIT operate at a very fast pace and leave ... about 3 hours of sleep, takes her final, and then falls asleep for 6 hours

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  help clean up. There were less than 24 hours before the barbecue, and I ... happy that I live in a dorm that can mobilize within 24 hours, to go from ... the time the food delivery arrived that night (one hour earlier than

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  't make you learn material any better.  Turning in a pset 24 hours late ... . After all, when Tim Cook wants something on his desk in three hours, punting is not an option.   --   Last week, I worked 75 hours

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  assemble my multiplier bot in the span of 24 hours. A task that would have ... and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of ... fast in 2.007.  That's the way it's designed: even though you're building

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  start five minutes past the hour."]late[/annotation]anymore, and I know it ... of beds dropped on the side of the road, cheap furniture selling fast ... ’ve turned in my first pset, gone to my first office hours (and then second

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  airport I went. Next stop was Pittsburgh, PA! I spent the next 40-odd hours ... , and since my bus out of Pittsburgh didn’t leave for another 11 hours, I ... hours were the Jamaican Feast they cooked up and the sitcom I was

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  9/17/21 After several hours, I finally finished decorating my room and ... semester, another class I took was 24.917, which is "How to Construct a ... I feel. 9/24/21 Never have I felt so attacked in my life. I apply the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  (we have a 15 minute break halfway through our long 3-hour lecture) to ... resolved within the hour. Here's the recap email I sent out: [caption id ... in 2:24pm: i text the person who emailed 2:57pm: the person roller

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  -shirt, shorts, and two towels. The bathhouse is open all 24 hours of the day, but signs specify that you can only stay for 12 continuous hours each visit ... and old, to escape the fast-paced demands of modern life. That night in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  than a three-hour time difference. These adjustments are mostly positive ... by volumes of different people at all hours of the day. What can I say ... , and the fraternity I was living in over the summer had free cereal 24

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  this later ;-;"]hell[/annotation] too — to quote Bianca '24, "why is ... everything he was saying. But he went fast. I looked down for five seconds to ... experience. I easily put 20 hours/week into 6.115 labs, structuring my eating

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  basement, but the hours passed ridiculously fast.   The aftermath. This was ... top. Then, 24 hours later, the “competition ... or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  The Great Dome, Marriage Equality, and a Proud Hack Better yet, all three in one picture!

  

  now here it is, as I found it at 3 AM Saturday morning, just 17 hours after the Supreme Court's ruling. Hackers move fast.

  • by Joel G. '18
  • June 27, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  hour every day. I take the whole hour and spend it complaining about how ... for up to one hour. It feels like being in limbo — everything should be ... already somewhat lower than the number of hours I had to be in class, online

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  'd been awake for almost 24 hours. What's one to do? I curled up into a ball ... the parts into a working robot. It started off fast. I was unable to ... with 6 balls in it, meaning they can score a maximum of 24 points (all

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008